we went camping

gbstewart · 06-12-2011, 07:52 PM

3 rd time out so far camping, everthing is working good. have bathroom, and kitchen sink, just put in upper cabnets.

will post more pics with latest progress.

we stayed at a park in kenora ontario, we were the red necks of the parks, all nice new fiffe wheels and the guy next door had a 150,000 motor home, nice, but with that being said more people came over to see our bus, and where all positive comments.

makes you feel warm and fuzzee.
gbstewart

gbstewart · 06-14-2011, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by timmylc

How many asked how much it cost / fuel mileage?

(did you compare fuel mileage with your neighbor?) <--

yes he did asked what I had into it, he gets 6 mpg towing hes little truck, hes total cost for his rig was 198,000. he had a grin when I told him we had 8400 into ours and get 9-12 mpg. we got 12 mpg on the way there. (took it easy)(drove the speed limit)

gbstewart.

Diesel Dan · 06-14-2011, 10:42 AM

I love that photo of your bus parked next to the RV! I hope to take many photos of my own just like that one.

lornaschinske · 06-14-2011, 06:08 PM

How about doing all of us a favour and leave a review in http://www.campgroundreviews.com and don't forget to say "We camped here in a skoolie".

gbstewart · 06-14-2011, 06:39 PM

lorna, will do that

D.Dan I hope you do to, Its a blast driving this thing, and nice easy to set up and take down camping, as soon as I can Ill take pics of my holding tanks and how I put them in, everything is coming together nice, we have a big trip to the east coast starting around the 4 of july, planning about 35 nights 5-8 thousand miles , so everything has to work on the bus.

gbstewart

browncrown · 06-26-2011, 02:50 PM

I like the idea of being the "Red Neck" in the campground. I have found in the places I go to, everyone wants to ask questions about the conversion and all have been really nice people...even the one's that own the $100,000 plus rigs with the slide-outs.

gbstewart · 06-26-2011, 04:29 PM

I agree, its a blast to camp with a bus, we just got back from a weekend camping, had 3 people take the tour of the bus, theres lots of nice folks, and its nice to meet different folks. Iv been keeping a log book this year , of camp sites we have been, people we meet, fuel etc, I always jot down about the people that take a tour inside, some day it will make for interesting reading. we will be heading out around the 4 or 5 of july to take a 30 plus days run to the east coast from here, should be about 5-8thousand mile trip. im sure we will hit wifi so I can go on line and check out this site, also I have a Magic jack phone so I can use on the road, it will save my cell phone bill.

gbstewart

gbstewart · 09-07-2011, 06:11 PM

well its been a month since we been back from our long trip, we headed out last saturday and spent the night at camp ground , wx was bad but it was nice to be back in the bus again, we will be doing a few more camping days till about oct, give or take,most likley boon docking then time to but the bus away, how sad, so far its been a good year , travelled 9810 kms this year 44 nights so far and all good.
hope every one had as much fun and use out of your bus as we did
gbstewart

newtoskool · 09-11-2011, 08:27 AM

GB what did you get for mileage on your journey?

lornaschinske · 09-11-2011, 09:19 AM

We drove up (not camping) to Pie Town yesterday for the Pie festival and checked out a couple of public campgrounds on the way. I have started a photo bucket page with pics and info. I have listed what sites our 40 ft bus will fit into. Datil Well is a nice campground and the roads are not as rough as I was lead to believe. I wish our gravel roads had been that nice back when we lived on gravel roads! Only $5 per night but no dump station and a 7 day max stay. There is a camphost on site (noted) so I guess we could ask where a dump station is at. No bath houses only pit toilets (1 handicapped station -pic- and 1 regular). Based on the "view" in the pit toilets, I would say this place isn't really used alot. We also checked out the FREE city park in Pie Town. I haven't gotten the pics up for it yet. High grass, dispersed camping. Does have pit toilets (operational?) and a threaded water pipe. Commercial RV park in town (tiny). Perhaps they allow dumping? If you go to Pie Town for the pie... skip the Pie-oneer.. expensive pie and it wasn't that great. We sell a better pie and it's a "store-bought" one that we sell for less! We did not try the "Daily Pie Cafe".

Skoolie Friendly Campgrounds

gbstewart · 09-11-2011, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by newtoskool

GB what did you get for mileage on your journey?

the lowest we got was 10.1 mpg and the highest was 10.8 mpg. running about 93kms per hour(gps speed). it was allways around the same amount of kms per tank full about 519kms. after driveing 8740 kms, Im very very sure those numbers are right on the money. I has filling up when we had 1/4 tank left.

Im really happy with that, cruise controll really helps

gbstewart

lornaschinske · 09-11-2011, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gbstewart

... we will be doing a few more camping days till about oct, give or take,most likley boon docking then time to but the bus away, how sad...

And why are you putting the bus away during the winter months?

gbstewart · 09-11-2011, 09:29 PM

lorna, it get way to cold and to much snow to use the bus, cant go south yet, (to young to retire) still have to deal with that nasty job stuff as well. but it will be parked in the yard over the winter, so i can do some work on it

lornaschinske · 09-11-2011, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by gbstewart

... cant go south yet, (to young to retire) ...

I'm sorry, I don't understand that word "retire". What is it?

gbstewart · 09-12-2011, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by gbstewart

... cant go south yet, (to young to retire) ...

I'm sorry, I don't understand that word "retire". What is it?

''occupational change''

I still have about 5 more years for mine

gbstewart

lornaschinske · 09-12-2011, 05:17 PM

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...''occupational change''

I know what an "occupational change'' is. We did that. Used to remodel houses until Spring 2008. David got the idea to do hot dogs and had me researching to see if we could survive on the $$. He built the hot dog cart from scrap & junk over the winter and sold his first hot dog in March 2009. April 15th he worked a Tea Party Tax Day Protest. They expected 60 people.... they had 800 and David was the only food vendor there.

Not the first time we did an "occupational change" David got tired of installing cabinets in SC and we moved to TN where he sold home security systems for several years... until my Dad (tile setter) got sick and needed help. David got sucked back into construction yet again. I am his "unpaid labour". This time, we have sold off most of our construction tools, so no going back (except to build the bus).

gbstewart · 09-12-2011, 07:50 PM

lorna , do you run the hotdog cart year round? I have a really got job , we also have a car rental business, and the wife likes to do street vending markets,she sells jewery,clothing,soaps etc, thinking maybe a popcorn machine next year. I would love to head out and spend the winters in quartzite AZand be a vendor, will have to just wait a few more years, have to sell off the house,car rental business first,

gbstewart

lornaschinske · 09-12-2011, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by gbstewart

lorna , do you run the hotdog cart year round? ...thinking maybe a popcorn machine next year. I would love to head out and spend the winters in quartzite AZ and be a vendor,

We run the food cart year round. We are going to stop selling hot dogs because the BBQ and the deli sandwiches outsell the dogs big time. Better check to see if the health department will allow popcorn without a permit. They are strange about things. Quartzite is EXPENSIVE to vend at.

gbstewart · 09-13-2011, 06:59 AM

Iv heard that its expensive in AZ to vend, we wouldnt any, just want to go to see it, had friends that been going for the past 15 years, they a blast. the popcorn machine was just a maybe, if it was a hassle I wouldnt bother with it , wife has enough on the go anyway
we dont have weather for year round vending, when we do it (wife) its for something to do, and maybe make some cash.
deli sandwich, sounds gooood!!

gbstewart

lornaschinske · 09-13-2011, 09:29 PM

We are as far north as we can be (for us) to vend year round. Denver has several street vendors and they vend thru the winter. David says that's too cold. He may be from MI but he's lived too long in the South. He says we need to be in a warmer location than Central NM! So, in a couple more winters, we head southeast. Unless I won the Lottery and than it would be much sooner! David keeps buying me losing tickets, darn it! He buys me 3 tickets when we get gas. That's only once, sometimes twice a week.

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