Our Skoolie Garage
Living on the road often requires that you take with you a full compliment of tools to keep the bus going. So we decided it was time to show you how we carry all those tools in our Skoolie Garage.
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How to Shop at a Salvage Yard
Shopping at a salvage yard can be an intimidating process for the first timer. Understandably, the whole concept of rummaging through the discarded hulks of vehicles that once where but are no more is an unnatural activity for most of us, but do it once and you will quickly learn…
How Much Did Our Conversion Cost? / Skoolie Q & A / Video
We get asked a lot about the cost of doing a conversion. Friends, family members, people at gas stations, all over the place and it was one of my biggest concerns going into the conversion. Luckily, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I mean, we could…
Toilet Update
We purchased a portable camping toilet (The Thetford 92859 Porta Potti ) to try out in the place of the composting toilet.
Driving through the Guadalupe Mountains in New Mexico to Carlsbad Caverns
Our trip into New Mexico has so far been one of the highlights of traveling with our skoolie. Everyroad and everything along the road just seems to look diffrent from our bus-level view. Suddenly everything is new, and even the mundane seems exciting at the time. Taking the bus up…
The Day We Bought Our School Bus
Sometimes you just have to take life by the horns and sometimes the horns look like a computer keyboard while navigating an online auction… Okay, there are better metaphors for this, but the concept should be clear. After multiple conversations and repeated handwringing, we took the plunge and entered our…
School Bus Conversion-Painting the Bus
One of the first things we decided on after buying the bus was that we would need to paint it. Oh man, it was a huge and time consuming job and isn’t totally done yet. We were under the impression that is it illegal to own a yellow school bus…
Busing with a Dog
We have 1 dog, an almost 2 year old terrier mutt, named Finn. While we were building the bus he presented a challenge, a lovable challenge but a challenge none the less, in a few different ways-1. space is very limited and he needs a crate (he was crate trained…
The Bus is Street-Legal!
Mike and I got word, in May, that we would need to move back to Texas in time for the start of the fall semester in late August. That really put an unanticipated stress on our conversion timeline. The beginning of August rolled around and we still didn’t have insurance…
RV vs Skoolie: The Winner is…
Mike and I thought long and hard about what route we wanted to take- did we want a more traditional RV or did we want to take the hard road and go for a school bus conversion? In the end, we’ve decided to go the school bus route. We really…
