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
"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
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
Well, we've finally hit the most critical stage of bus conversion: painting and decorating. Okay, okay, I'm not actually serious about this being the most critical stage of the whole process. However it is certainly the stage that I've been most anticipating. By the end of September, the interior of the bus was technically complete, … Continue reading Downsizing (and pictures!)
Whew, the past two months have been busy! September saw us working on the bus at a frenetic pace - with me doing construction full-time, and Ryan joining me in the evenings after his 9 to 5 day ended. Weekends were longer. (As noted in the last post, all of this effort paid off.) If … Continue reading Paperworkin’ It
We Got Schooled 