After two months of searching the country following serendipity’s beacon – yesterday we bought a vintage bus! She is a 1961 GM PD-4106, serial number 446. She’s 35′ long and 96″ wide. While the 4106 is best known for being the heart of Greyhounds long haul fleet, our bus started her life as a regional […]
Vintage Bus Hunt (April - June 2011)
On Being Homeless Backpackers
Since we dropped our borrowed Le’Sharo motorhome off in Georgia, we’ve been homeless. Intentionally so. We packed everything we thought we’d need for an indefinite time period into two backpacks and hopped on a train across country to continue our search for our next home on wheels. It’s been a mixture of freeing, intimidating, frustrating […]
Bus Dating
The past couple months of vintage bus shopping has felt much more like the delicate process of looking for an ideal life mate. Vintage buses, like people, each have a life story. A personality and unique style. They each have their quirks, their potentials, their benefits and their problem areas. Just as there is no […]
A Vintage Bus?!?
It’s no secret that we are in the midst of a cross country hunt for a converted vintage bus to make our next technomadic home. But… why? Why a bus? Why not a more traditional RV? And why vintage? Why on earth would we consider buying a vehicle potentially older than we are? How did […]
The Le’Sharo Right of Passage
It was only a month ago when we found ourselves facing imminent homelessness, heading north from Florida to deliver both our truck and our beloved trailer to their new owner. We headed towards the sale with literally no plan for what was next. We started looking into buying a temporary RV, or renting a u-haul […]
Next Adventure Departing the Station
I don’t know which of us actually voiced the idea first when some intriguing sounding vintage buses cropped up for us on the other coast of the country. Taking a cross country train trip has been something we’ve always wanted to do. So when we started looking at ways to get to the west coast […]
And the bus hunt begins..
Since we left Melbourne, Florida to head north to Lynchburg, Virginia to deliver the Oliver – we’ve been moving at a whirlwind pace. Heading up, we started a search for a temporary home on wheels – which yielded little acceptable results. In the southeast, so many sticks & stables RVs have suffered considerable water damage. […]
Re-Calculating
The new-to-us GPS unit we recently purchased from my father instructs us to turn left. We ignore her, and turn right instead… our way seems more scenic. ‘Re-calculating‘ she proclaims. She comes back with instructions to get us back on her previously researched route. We’re obstinate. We ignore her and continue on the route that calls […]
Serendipity Says: Light Speed Ahead (Imminent Homelessness)
Its no secret that we’ve been pondering “what’s next” for a while now, particularly since we’ve returned from the Virgin Islands. Sailboat? Not yet. International adventures? Yes, we want more extended jaunts to exotic places. But we want to keep some sort of (mobile) base in the US to return to, so that we can […]
Things we’re not missing about RV’ing…
As some may have noticed by reading between the lines, this past year some aspects of our RV-based nomadic lifestyle began to wear a bit thin for us. After four years (five for Chris!) on the road together, our ping-pong route between Florida, St. Louis, Burning Man, and San Francisco had begun to develop ruts, […]