Skooly Conversion | Spray Foam Insulation We have another skooly update! The builder was kind enough to send more photos to us of the spray foam insulation. We were supposed to head up this weekend and check out the build. A tire issue on our Tahoe determined that would have to wait another weekend. All is well! I ended up… Read More »Skooly Conversion | Spray Foam Insulation
Today it is all about skoolie coffee and the different methods we have tried as we prepare for our journey. Whenever we have camped in the past, one of the hardest things for us to get right was the coffee. We tried Nature’s Coffee Kettle and didn’t hate it, but it isn’t intended for daily use. Once we decided to… Read More »Skoolie Coffee Options | We Live on a Bus
Rolling Homes | 4 Reasons We Hired a Skoolie Builder We already talked about why our skooly was our top choice out of all the rolling homes. In the skoolie world, most people seem to opt for the DIY option. We considered it, but for several reasons we decided to hire a skoolie builder to make our dreams a reality.… Read More »Rolling Homes | 4 Reasons We Hired a Skoolie Builder
The hardest part of embracing minimalism was taking a close look at the personal mementos we were hauling around on this Earth and determining which of them needed to go. The answer was that the bulk of them had to go if we were going to live tiny and embrace minimalism. Full Disclosure We have a storage unit. There are… Read More »Minimalism | Digitalize Your Keepsakes
Removing School Bus Home Rust Since we never intended to do any of the demo on our school bus home, I wasn’t mentally prepared for what we would find when we lifted the flooring of our skoolie to expose the metal floor. So. Much. Rust. If I had spent any time at all looking at other buses that were at… Read More »Removing School Bus Home Rust
We started dreaming of the perfect skoolie floor plan before we even purchased a bus. Since that first plan, it has changed 2,351 times. That is just a rough estimate of course. The photo below is what we have settled on. That is, until our builder points out the 20 reasons why he doesn’t think it will work. Maybe he… Read More »Skoolie Floor Plan
I have had my eye on an air couch for a while. Maybe you call them air loungers? Either way, I have wanted one for the last year. I didn’t have a need for it though. When you are planning to move into 300 square feet, you don’t get to buy things just because you want them. When we started… Read More »Review: Sobelle Air Couch | Tiny Living Products
Timeline of Skoolie Build I just wanted to keep a running record everything that has happened with our skoolie conversion. If you are considering living on a school bus, maybe this will give you some idea of what to expect. 2017 May 7, 2017: Agreed that we would travel full time. 2018 (Finding a Skoolie Builder + Our Rolling… Read More »Skoolie Conversion Update | Timeline of Skoolie Build
I planned to write an article about 10 things we minimized to move into the skoolie. I quickly realized it really wasn’t that simple. We minimized everything. Nothing was safe. We teased about putting the dog on Facebook Marketplace. We threatened to get rid of each others things when no one was looking so there would be more room for… Read More »Downsizing the Kitchen | Tiny Kitchen Tips
The wait is over! We bought a bus and it just happened to be two miles from our house. Our neighbor, a diesel mechanic who spent time working in a bus barn, looked at it last Tuesday and said the engine was good. Let’s just take a minute so you can really think about what I just said. Our neighbor… Read More »We Bought a Bus! | Skoolie Step 1: Buy a School Bus