What are you still doing in Arizona??? We arrived in Arizona nearly 6 weeks ago. In that time, we’ve experienced only one day in which the high temperature was below 100 degrees, and many of those days in excess of 110. You’d think that when you have location flexiblity, we’d take advantage of the first […]
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Traveling the USA via Amtrak Rail Pass
After selling our Oliver Travel Trailer, and spending a month transitioning our travels in a borrowed Le’Sharo motorhome – we purchased a month long Amtrak Rail Pass to continue our vintage bus hunt. We thought we’d share what we learned about traveling via a rail pass and life aboard Amtrak. About the Amtrak USA Rail […]
7 Links Challenge
With thanks to Erin & Simon of Never Ending Voyage, we were nominated to participate in the 7 Links Challenge hosted by Tripbase. They provide 7 categories, and we’re supposed to dig up old posts from the archives. A bit of a blogger chain letter style trip down memory lane. Sounds like a nice break […]
Best Bus-Warming Ever!
In effort to avoid the heat of the day, we made an early morning repositioning last Saturday from Yuma, Arizona to Lake Havasu City – where our awesome friends and hosts live. After we arrived, the temperatures start to exceed the forecast, and our thermometers peak out at around 125 degrees. We make note of […]
Negotiating with Our Bus
Our last post left you off with us making an offer on a vintage bus in Yuma, AZ that we nicknamed ‘Taxi Bus’. After our contingent offer was accepted, the next morning we made the trip from Lake Havasu City (where we’ve been basing out of while staying with dear friends) back down to […]
Our Search for a Vintage Bus
This post will take you on a condensed (really!) version of the journey that we’ve been on for the past couple of months to find our vintage bus. We’ve had many requests to share pictures and stories of the various buses we’ve investigated. Perhaps sharing our process and top contenders might help others who are […]
Introducing: Our New Vintage Bus!
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 […]
Burning Man – Camp Nomadia 2011
We are thrilled to announce that there will indeed be a Camp Nomadia at Burning Man this year! This is the theme camp that we’ve run for the past 3 years, and has been hugely successful (click for links to 2009 and 2010 wrap ups). Our vision was a theme camp for nomads… a camp […]
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 […]
