raising the roof!

after much planning and hoping and dreaming we finally have finished a big part of our bus conversion. Today Robert is securing the van to the bus, but we are beyond blessed to have so many wonderful strong muscles and there were 3 girls including myself who helped man handled this project. mrs. Julia Kevon and Marynell Powell were very helpful!

[the boys strategizing]

[the whole crew helping us!]

["scooting" the van on top of the bus]

[still "scooting"]

[final destination]

[so beautiful!]

so you may be asking yourself, why? why would they do this?

our goal is to turn this bus into a "home" we aren't sure how long we will be in it or where we are going.

All we have planned now is to go out this summer and travel. We are putting a really nice, big kitchen [well as big as we can fit...] and the van is going to be our lofted bed.

We are going to just go!

thanks for reading.

happy bus travels :)

She's comin' together

I have been working on the bus most diligently the past couple weeks.

Since the last post, I have completely finished taking all the sheet metal out of the inside.

1000 rivets later, and it's metal free.

I then began grinding away all of the rust that had accumulated under the old flooring.

After that, I painted the bare metal with rust preventative paint.

After that, I began to cover the windows with sheet metal.

Once Hannah and I decided on a well thought out floor plan, the metal work commenced.

With the help of my friend Graham, we began drilling, and pop riveting the metal to the bus.

After one piece!

also, we have starting making a small list of a few things that we need:

[more to come.]

first: a small-ish toilet.

and we would also love a water-saver back of the toilet sink! (only $70!)

an old gas stove/oven combo. (chambers! please)

a 15-passenger van to cut in half and put on top and make our loft-bed.