With just about every RV park from Colorado Springs to Denver booked solidly for the Fourth of July weekend, we traveled up to the mountains to pay my sister, Elyse, and her husband, Chris, a visit. Chris & Elyse are super cool people and their neighbors were very understanding about the 35-foot blue bus parked … Continue reading Travelogue: Conifer, Boulder, Evergreen, & Aspen Park, CO
Wanting to visit Colorado Springs, we stayed at Cheyenne Mountain State Park just 7 miles away from downtown. This was our first experience trying to lock-down a campsite before a major holiday weekend, and boy did we learn a thing or two about planning! Just about every campground near Colorado Springs was booked solid for … Continue reading Travelogue: Colorado Springs, CO
That's right, you read that correctly - we finally started traveling in our bus! It was two years in the making, with plenty of sweat, tears, and yes, even a little blood shed along the way, but we've actually launched. And it feels pretty darn good. At present, we've been traveling for just two months, … Continue reading On the Road: The Good & The Challenging
Trinidad Lake State Park - Trinidad, Colorado After leaving Texas, we headed west through New Mexico and took the Raton Pass up into Colorado. Raton Pass was our first real opportunity to see how our bus would perform on real grades and higher elevation. It wasn't great - we chugged along at 20 mph for … Continue reading Travelogue: Trinidad Lake, Colorado
Caprock Canyons State Park We stayed in the Honey Flats Campground for just one night, and regret not reserving more nights in this park. It's an amazing landscape that we wish we could have explored more fully. We'll definitely come back here on our next pass through this part of Texas. The campsites are close … Continue reading Travelogue: Caprock Canyons, QuitaqueTX
Our first stop after leaving east Texas, we stayed in Abilene State Park. We had a tumultuous first ride in our bus that included driving through downtown Dallas at rush-hour and all three of our pets loudly meowing & barking for the first two hours of the drive. None of the fur-balls were quite prepared … Continue reading Travelogue: Abilene, TX
"So, when do you guys hit the road?" We get asked this question a lot when talking to folks about the bus. Well the good news, is that we are planning to start our road trip soon. No, really. Like next week, soon! There are several reasons why it's taken so long for us to … Continue reading Why We Haven’t Left Yet
I've mentioned this before in other posts, but one of the interesting facts we learned at the onset of our conversion process is that it is illegal to impersonate a school bus in just about every state. What this means exactly can vary from state-to-state, though most states mandate that, at the least, you have … Continue reading To Paint a Bus
If you follow our blog, you may have noticed that two months have passed since we last posted anything. This delay was deliberate in that it's also exactly how long we've been staying in our school bus home to-date. It felt appropriate to let some time pass before writing anything new - the seeds of … Continue reading The Big Scoop on Living Small
Well, after nearly two years, we've finally done it. Not only is the interior of our converted school bus officially finished, but we've both left our jobs and moved out of our home in Austin, Texas. The drive from Austin to east Texas went very well and the bus made it all 250 miles without … Continue reading Austin, we have lift off
We Got Schooled 