Getting ready

If you wait for the absolute perfect time to do something, you’ll never end up doing it. Why? Because there is no perfect time!
We have to make the perfect time ourselves, not just by changing our environment, but changing the way that we think about things. We make our own luck, and luck favors the prepared mind.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Is that a house?

No no, that's the bus.

So!

I am now living in the bus. Last night was night #2.

Kind of cold, but so so peaceful. I leave the windows cracked so that I can hear the crickets chirping and the croaking of the bullfrogs.

There has been some major interior work going on recently. So much so, that when I post up the next set of pictures, you will not believe that it is the same bus.

YAY!

Oh, and if you are wealthy, or feel like being really nice to us, you can now donate funds to support our bus project!!! Safe paypal transaction comes directly to US! :-D

Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

Pickup truck? Who needs one of those!?!?!

... Is that the same bus!?!

... Okay, so maybe not that drastic of a change since day 1, but we're getting there!












But, what I am most excited about is getting that engine out of there so that we can start to take is apart...

The time will come soon enough!

Bus update!




So, old rotten wood floor is out, and now a new floor is going in. The money from selling the seats went to buying some marine plywood, as recommended by Robbie Baker (who happens to be a professional boat-builder, and thus, is experienced in dealing with wet wood, and wood getting wet but staying dry).

Why marine? Different type of wood, and different type of glue, which makes it repel water without all of the lousy chemicals.


At first, when we went to buy the wood, they only had one type of marine which was not the desired width. They tried to sell me on some normal ply. I said no thanks... I don't want to sit on top of those things when they're off-gassing!

"Oh, they use something different now!" he assured me.
I wasn't convinced. "Do you have the info on that?" I asked.
"Yeah, sure I've got the flyer here somewhere..." he said. He couldn't find it, which was fine, because I didn't want to read what the producers had to say. "That's alright, can you pull up the MSDS or something?"
It ended up being this huge production, but eventually I ended up behind the desk reading the MSDS on the computer. "repeated exposure has been shown to cause respiratory cancer in rats..." "eye and throat irritant.." no thanks.

In the end, thinner marine turned out perfect. The wood was actually supposed to be a special order for someone else, so they gave me a "special deal" and so on.


If you remember, before, there was a layer of stainless steel between the wood and the wheel wells to keep water and dirt out...










We decided to take a different route to prevent that sort of rotting to happen again.

So, the undercarriage was pressure washed by Jesse and Robbie, the wood was sized, cut, (including escape hatch cutouts) painted (almost done!), and will be ready to install as soon as the weekend is over!




Afterall, my car still doesn't run, and I have to show it at Primer... last second stuff as always!







and as lovely as the seafoam and brown color combination is... the paint will soon be buffed entirely off to show the shiny stainless underneath, and the black window moldings and fiberglass... and then what we will do from there... is a secret for now!




More to come...