There is nothing like hearing your air conditioner turn on via battery power! Not that it’s any different of a sound. So let’s back up a few days, and cover the journey since we left Phoenix – where we built our own lithium ion battery bank. Building our bank was lots of fun, but it […]
Life on the Road
We Built a Lithium Ion Battery Bank!
After another all-nighter lithium ion battery research session last Tuesday, we slept in on Wednesday and then made our way down the hill from Flagstaff into Phoenix. With every foot of elevation drop, the temperature increased and we were soon reminded of why we escaped to Flagstaff in the first place. The bus did incredibly […]
Inverted Intentions
Two weeks ago we finally escaped the intense Arizona desert heat in Lake Havasu City, and headed to nearby Flagstaff. Sitting at elevation 7000 ft, it’s many degrees cooler and has things that are green. We came here intending to cool off – both our bodies and on the bus projects. We were also tempted […]
Video, App and Burn
The following post will be nothing new for those who have been following along with our daily updates on Facebook. It’s just a wrap up of some announcements we’ve made this week. Updated Bus Video Tour I have updated our video bus tour to include footage of some of the recent updates. It’s amazing to […]
Bus Remodeling – The Answer Key
A couple days ago I posted a before and after picture of the bus’ interior, and asked how many differences you could spot. Honestly, the post was a feeble attempt at keeping this blog updated while we’ve had little energy for such things these past few weeks as we’ve been tackling project after project in […]
How Many Differences Can You Spot?
42 Days ago we bought our GM 4106 bus and moved in. We took the photo on the left after a quick clean up. We just took the photo on the right after a lot of renovations we’ve accomplished so far! (And that’s just in this area of the bus!) How many of the differences […]
I Live in a Bus!
Back in May while I was hiding under a bed, my people left me at my grandmeow’s in St. Louis. I knew something was up, as just a few weeks ago we got everything out of our Oliver Travel Trailer and put it in another vehicle, drove a while and then unloaded everything. But I […]
Roasting and Remodeling
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 […]
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 […]
