Stillwaters9
New Member
Hi, bus people. I am a fifty-something mom to three, dog lover, aspiring vagabond. When I started on the bus conversion adventure last year, I was single and planning for solo excursions, well, except for my two canine companions. Since then, a wonderful man from my high school past reappeared in my life and will now be joining me as we explore (with his dog added to the pack).
My bus is, well, an ex prison bus. A 28' Bluebird body with Dt360 (freshly rebuilt) and Alison auto transmission. Once we got all the nasty out of it, including the cages and the bars on the windows, got the floor stripped down to bare and repainted, all the windows removed and shuffled around and resealed, it has managed to languish for a little while, waiting for its turn with a local outfitter that puts living quarters in big horse trailers. They will put in the floor and wallboard and kitchen, electric, and water systems, then when I bring it home we will build out the rest. I am fortunate to have five acres in the country where I can park the bus by my barn/garage to work on it, as well as try out living in it some this winter. Since I live in Georgia, about forty miles from Atlanta, winter is not much to contend with. A little bit of cold, an ice storm, maybe, and rainy January and February. What I am really looking forward to is escaping summer here, which is miserable if you are not a sun loving tropical plant.
I look forward to reading everyone's experiences here, learning from you all. I have some photos of my bus and its slow progress on Instagram under stillwaters9, and hope to meet up with some of y'all on there as well.
My bus is, well, an ex prison bus. A 28' Bluebird body with Dt360 (freshly rebuilt) and Alison auto transmission. Once we got all the nasty out of it, including the cages and the bars on the windows, got the floor stripped down to bare and repainted, all the windows removed and shuffled around and resealed, it has managed to languish for a little while, waiting for its turn with a local outfitter that puts living quarters in big horse trailers. They will put in the floor and wallboard and kitchen, electric, and water systems, then when I bring it home we will build out the rest. I am fortunate to have five acres in the country where I can park the bus by my barn/garage to work on it, as well as try out living in it some this winter. Since I live in Georgia, about forty miles from Atlanta, winter is not much to contend with. A little bit of cold, an ice storm, maybe, and rainy January and February. What I am really looking forward to is escaping summer here, which is miserable if you are not a sun loving tropical plant.
I look forward to reading everyone's experiences here, learning from you all. I have some photos of my bus and its slow progress on Instagram under stillwaters9, and hope to meet up with some of y'all on there as well.
