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Old 11-27-2012, 01:43 PM   #121
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Old 11-27-2012, 03:30 PM   #122
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u got any details on how you mounted the deck on the top, or did i over look that ?
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Old 11-27-2012, 04:25 PM   #123
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Look here, April, may & June.
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Old 11-27-2012, 09:02 PM   #124
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Where did you get the metal hardwear and what is it called
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Old 11-28-2012, 01:13 AM   #125
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http://www.schoolbushomestead.com/Bu.../961998_rKKPLD
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Old 12-18-2012, 08:36 AM   #126
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I LOVE the bus! I pretty much copycatted your deck design...hope you don't mind Did you leave your 4x4's at 10ft as noted in the original materials list or did you trim them up to 96'' to stay legally under the wide load regulations?
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Old 12-18-2012, 07:49 PM   #127
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I LOVE the bus! I pretty much copycatted your deck design...hope you don't mind Did you leave your 4x4's at 10ft as noted in the original materials list or did you trim them up to 96'' to stay legally under the wide load regulations?
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The 4x4s were trimmed to 96".
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Old 12-19-2012, 03:32 AM   #128
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I LOVE the bus! I pretty much copycatted your deck design...hope you don't mind Did you leave your 4x4's at 10ft as noted in the original materials list or did you trim them up to 96'' to stay legally under the wide load regulations?
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The 4x4s were trimmed to 96".


How's it going out there in Tucson?
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Old 12-19-2012, 10:21 AM   #129
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I LOVE the bus! I pretty much copycatted your deck design...hope you don't mind Did you leave your 4x4's at 10ft as noted in the original materials list or did you trim them up to 96'' to stay legally under the wide load regulations?
Thanks for the kind words.
The 4x4s were trimmed to 96".


How's it going out there in Tucson?
Hola! All is well here, suffering through yet another "brutal" Tucson winter.

I haven't lived in my bus for a year. Considering selling it.

Happy holidays to you & yours
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Old 12-23-2012, 08:33 AM   #130
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Hola! All is well here, suffering through yet another "brutal" Tucson winter.

I haven't lived in my bus for a year. Considering selling it.

Happy holidays to you & yours
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Same to you! Happy new year!

You are thinking of selling the bus? You might want to hold onto for short trips or a vacation home!
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Old 04-18-2013, 07:57 PM   #131
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Actually the main highway in eastern Russia is all paved by now. The truckers I met called it "Putin's Highway", since he made it a national goal to pave a route from Moscow to Vladivostok. No small feat either. In much of Siberia, the soil turns to bog in the summer when the upper permafrost melts, so the roadway is built up on a high mound so it stays "high and dry".

I'm not sure I would take a bus on a trip like the one I took in 2010-2011. Part, if not most, of the pleasure came from being in touch with the locals, camping in their fields, cooking over a campfire at the end of the day or deciphering (or not!) the menu in a roadside cafe. Being in a bus, I would have missed out on so much. And the border crossings would have been a nightmare. Border officials look at a motorcycle and know the rider is likely not smuggling contraband. But a bus? A search could be an all-day affair.

And after doing a quick calculation, I would have spent 100% of my budget on fuel alone!

Oh, and I wouldn't take a school bus into Mongolia. Maybe the paved road from the border crossing south of Ulan Ude to the capital Ulaan Baatar, but off into the wilderness....no way.
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Old 08-29-2013, 12:48 PM   #132
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Hi Sean,
I've spent the last couple days reading your blog and now this thread. I've missed it somehow, what is the length of your bus and are there pics of the entire thing finished and living in it? (I was trying to get a look at the bedroom and bathroom areas) Have you sold it or considering selling it? I'd love to have it!
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Hi Sean, your bus build has been a great inspiration to me. My bus that I am working on converting is about the same length. I also plan on using mostly wood to make it sort of look like a cabin and I plan on using solar power as well. This is by far one of the best conversions I have found so far. Thanks for all the write ups and pictures!
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