So i bought the bus. $1000..er… i mean $1 Mr tax man…. bought me a 1986 NYC bluebird schoolbus. It had already been rennovated once by the previous owner. All of the seats save the driver’s were gone. Most of the windows had been covered-over. The interior wallks had been wired with 120AC outlets, insulated, covered with luon and painted. The floors were covered with lenolium, and a kitchen counter and bookshelves had been built.

Oh yeah, and it ran. It made it to florida and back, but i’m getting ahead of myself.

So i got this great bus and started making my own modifications to it. I ripped out the bed frame that was there cause, well, it sucked, and built my own. I used my patented “elevate the bed” building technique to add storage space underneath, while still leaving enough headroom for recreational activities. I built storage cubbys, an entertainment center, hung shelves and put down carpet. I put a 27″ tv, a 13″ tv, wireless internet, 2 computers, UPS, stereo, dvd/vcr, a couch, full-size mattress, microwave, toaster oven, refrigerator, and a playstaion2 into the bus and lemme tell you, the thing was cozy. People would hesitate to come visit, then be flabbergasted by the hominess and comfort within. I even put a frikkin DSS dish on the back.

Truly, when not in driving mode, it really felt like a tiny apartment rather than , well, a bus.

By the time i got all of this done, it was getting rather cold in NY, so we moved down to Florida for the winter.

Elaboration: Remember that nifty new girlfriend i mentioned in an earlier post? Yeah, well, i had no job when we met. I then started living in a bus. She then quit her job, gave up her apartment, moved into the bus with me, and ran off to florida with no particular prospects for employment. For future reference, consider how her family must be feeling about me at this point, and keep it in the back of your mind for a while.

You’re probably thinking, “wow, what a stud-muffin he must be!” but please, let’s keep those thoughts restricted to private emails

Anyway, we took it to florida, needing only a change of tire and alternator belt, and had a rather nice winter there.

The cookie crubmles

After looking around my site a bit, one would probably muse something like, “Gee, this site is so magnificantly hoopy that this jerm guy must be quite the techno-weenie. ”
Well my loyal listener, that’s a kind thought, but allow me to tell you what a lame-assines i’m capable of. I took a couple of pictures of the bus when i forst got it, still with stuff that needed to be cleaned out. And i have a picture of the outside of the bus from when we were in florida. This would-be techno-weenie, however, despite plenty of access to various digital cameras and owning at least 2 film cameras, completely neglected to get any photos of the bus’s exquisite internal comfiness before we ripped everything out to move into the new place.

Please, feel free to join in the flogging.