This post will take you on a condensed (really!) version of the journey that we’ve been on for the past couple of months to find our vintage bus. We’ve had many requests to share pictures and stories of the various buses we’ve investigated. Perhaps sharing our process and top contenders might help others who are […]
Life on the Road
Introducing: Our New Vintage Bus!
After two months of searching the country following serendipity’s beacon – yesterday we bought a vintage bus! She is a 1961 GM PD-4106, serial number 446. She’s 35′ long and 96″ wide. While the 4106 is best known for being the heart of Greyhounds long haul fleet, our bus started her life as a regional […]
Burning Man – Camp Nomadia 2011
We are thrilled to announce that there will indeed be a Camp Nomadia at Burning Man this year! This is the theme camp that we’ve run for the past 3 years, and has been hugely successful (click for links to 2009 and 2010 wrap ups). Our vision was a theme camp for nomads… a camp […]
On Being Homeless Backpackers
Since we dropped our borrowed Le’Sharo motorhome off in Georgia, we’ve been homeless. Intentionally so. We packed everything we thought we’d need for an indefinite time period into two backpacks and hopped on a train across country to continue our search for our next home on wheels. It’s been a mixture of freeing, intimidating, frustrating […]
Bus Dating
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 […]
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 […]
Virtually Revisiting St. John
We’re now in St. Louis with Chris’ family – handling logistics of offloading all of our stuff into their basement before we turn around to head back to Georgia to return the borrowed Le’Sharo motorhome. We’re also deep in research on our various bus options, and deciding which buses to head to next to see […]
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. […]
