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 […]
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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. […]
Farewell, Orion!
On Saturday, May 7 – we watched our beloved 17′ Oliver Travel Trailer and Toyota Tundra drive off after spending an evening giving its new owner a full orientation. Photo by Karen Nace, 2010. It was a truly bittersweet moment, as it was almost exactly 3 years ago that we commissioned its build. Orion, as […]
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 […]
Re-Entry
We’ve now been back to the US Mainland for about a week, after our 5 months in the US Virgin Islands. There has been some element of culture shock for us, and definitely things we’re missing about island life. Namely the pace of life and crunchy grouper sandwiches! The biggest thing that stands out is […]
Our Last Days on St. John
We arrived back to the mainland Tuesday, ending our fabulous winter on St. John. We were full of mixed emotions of leaving, and made a decent attempt at finding a balance between handling our exodus logistics, getting work done and exploring the island more. Everything fell nicely into place. We easily found a buyer for […]
