Fixing Our Broken Window from Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma came and left through our area of Florida with a lot of rain and wind, some of which ended up breaking through one of our bus windows. We decided to replace the window with a sheet metal panel which we riveted onto the bus.

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You’ve Decided to Stay- What You Need to Ride Out a Hurricane

Hurricane Checklist Image

Mike and I have been keeping a close eye on the recent developments of Hurricane Irma which is barreling towards the Caribbean and Florida. We are currently in Central Florida, near the Orlando area, making some alterations to the bus and riding out our current “broke-ness” with family. Pretty much…

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Cooking on the Bus and our Kitchen Update

Katy responds to a “tagged” request about how we go about doing our cooking. And we show off the fruits of our labor with our remodeled kitchen in the schoolie.

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Reality Check – Why You Should Not Get a Skoolie

Bus conversions are great but they are not easy. This is a reality check for anyone thinking about embarking on a bus conversion project. We love our skoolie conversion, but heed our warnings, before you are lured into a project you wish you had never started.

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Converting from 30 amps to 50 amps

After roughly nine months of fulltime living with 30 amp power we decided to upgrade our school bus conversion from 30 amps to 50 amps. Maybe our experience will help someone out there with this same decision.

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Remodeling – First Came the Bathroom, Then Came the Closets

We are completely, totally, 100% insane. We have family coming to visit at the end of the month and what did we decide to do a week and a half  out? Tear almost everything out. Without finishing the bathroom first. So the bathroom is in disarray and is half tiled.…

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Winterizing Fail / Video/ Vlog Ep. 3

Guys, weather is hard. Like really hard. We’re figuring out that we will be hot when it’s hot outside and we will be cold when it’s cold outside. We are starting to get the hang of it and we do plan on implementing some changes to our winterization of the…

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Bus Resolutions 2017 / HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy 2017 y’all! We are super excited to see what the year holds for us 🙂

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Bathroom Storage Redux

I recently updated our bathroom storage. Cute spice racks to holds all of my lotions, toners, and cosmetics. It was a better use of the very limited space we have in our bathroom area. Everything was so easy to get to, I didn’t have to dig products out in order…

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Cooling the Bus

Now that the weather has finally started turning a little cooler (not fast enough! Texas just can’t seem to let go of summer), I thought I’d talk a little bit about our trials and tribulations regarding keeping the bus not…ass hot. It’s not quite as a rage inducing problem as…

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