It's been super hot here for the last few weeks. And I've been working six days a week in a hot kitchen at a summer camp. Summer camp just ended this week, and we already have another group coming in tomorrow. Busy busy busy. Haven't had time or the energy to do much on the bus still. We are still trying to get the last seat out and the half wall by the stairs. I'm peeling up the black rubber flooring off the plywood. I know most people take up the plyboard to get to the metal flooring underneath, but our bus isn't built like that. There are some metal supports holding up the 3 inch marine grade plywood flooring. There is a large hatch in the middle of the floor used to access the engine. The rubber is really hard to scrape off. It's slow going. This glue they used 40 years ago was no joke. I'm using a flat bar and a hammer, and getting inches at a time.
There is a little rust around the wheel wells. The wheel wells themselves are fiberglass and in great shape. There are some metal strips around them though to connect them to the wood I suppose. On the back bench under the rusted through emergency exit window there is a lot of rust where the water came in and ran down the back of the bench, then created a hole, which is why the trunk area had water in it. With the help of some online skoolie friends I was able to find and order a new emergency exit! It is being shipped via Greyhound bus (which is new information to me) for half the price of ups or usps. Still expensive though...
We are going to have a garage sale next month! We have a lot of stuff we've been gathering over the last two years and are going to sell it during the apple popcorn festival town wide garage sale. We don't need it now and we definitely won't need it when we're living tiny.
After much deliberating, frustration, and fruitless internet searches, we have decided on a name! The bus (she) reminded us a lot of a certain ship, firefly class, who kept running even when she should have quit long ago. Love keeps her in the sky when she ought to fall down. So, her name is Serenity. (Applause breaks out) I know I know. We love it too. We're going to write her name on her in the same font and have almost steampunk colors on the outside. We have a couple great friends here who volunteered to help us out with it, painting and welding. Apparently Lisa has always wanted to paint a bus, lol. They're crazy but we love 'em. It's hard to find a board game player that you don't like. Board gamers are some of the best people.
Anyway, so we're trying to get stuff gathered together, and choosing what we do and don't want to keep. Pauly alloted us both three shelves on these small bookcases of games, books, and movies to keep. We have a huge selection of books and I had a whole bookcase of movies, plus another small bookcase full of board games. It's hard, but I'm happy with my selection. The hardest part is getting rid of my vhs disney movie collection i've been working on for the past 3 years. Some of these titles are really hard to find on dvd and I don't want to take my vcr with me.
Today I was researching solar power and exactly how much power I need to have to power my daily needs. A difficult project when you have no prior knowledge of solar power or even electricity. But, with a lot of help from this facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/solarpoweredrvs/ I am getting somewhere. I have found facebook to be a great source of knowledge and wisdom. A lot of people have done what we are trying to do and love to give advice. It's a very generous community, these skoolies. I love it.
Until next time.
Capt.- But it ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I’m about to say.
River- I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Capt.- Love. You can learn all the math in the ‘Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens. Makes her a home.
River -Storm’s getting worse.
Capt. -We’ll pass through it soon enough.
(Serenity)
There is a little rust around the wheel wells. The wheel wells themselves are fiberglass and in great shape. There are some metal strips around them though to connect them to the wood I suppose. On the back bench under the rusted through emergency exit window there is a lot of rust where the water came in and ran down the back of the bench, then created a hole, which is why the trunk area had water in it. With the help of some online skoolie friends I was able to find and order a new emergency exit! It is being shipped via Greyhound bus (which is new information to me) for half the price of ups or usps. Still expensive though...
We are going to have a garage sale next month! We have a lot of stuff we've been gathering over the last two years and are going to sell it during the apple popcorn festival town wide garage sale. We don't need it now and we definitely won't need it when we're living tiny.
After much deliberating, frustration, and fruitless internet searches, we have decided on a name! The bus (she) reminded us a lot of a certain ship, firefly class, who kept running even when she should have quit long ago. Love keeps her in the sky when she ought to fall down. So, her name is Serenity. (Applause breaks out) I know I know. We love it too. We're going to write her name on her in the same font and have almost steampunk colors on the outside. We have a couple great friends here who volunteered to help us out with it, painting and welding. Apparently Lisa has always wanted to paint a bus, lol. They're crazy but we love 'em. It's hard to find a board game player that you don't like. Board gamers are some of the best people.
Anyway, so we're trying to get stuff gathered together, and choosing what we do and don't want to keep. Pauly alloted us both three shelves on these small bookcases of games, books, and movies to keep. We have a huge selection of books and I had a whole bookcase of movies, plus another small bookcase full of board games. It's hard, but I'm happy with my selection. The hardest part is getting rid of my vhs disney movie collection i've been working on for the past 3 years. Some of these titles are really hard to find on dvd and I don't want to take my vcr with me.
Today I was researching solar power and exactly how much power I need to have to power my daily needs. A difficult project when you have no prior knowledge of solar power or even electricity. But, with a lot of help from this facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/solarpoweredrvs/ I am getting somewhere. I have found facebook to be a great source of knowledge and wisdom. A lot of people have done what we are trying to do and love to give advice. It's a very generous community, these skoolies. I love it.
Until next time.
Capt.- But it ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I’m about to say.
River- I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Capt.- Love. You can learn all the math in the ‘Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens. Makes her a home.
River -Storm’s getting worse.
Capt. -We’ll pass through it soon enough.
(Serenity)
