We are quitting #buslife…for now! Our jobs and travel plans have outgrown our bus for the immediate future and we are heading to Baja in our 1st generation Toyota 4Runner!
Tag: bus conversion
Fresh Paint…Maintenance Monday on YouTube
We painted our bus in a hurry and ended up with a really good looking paintjob thanks to help from my grandparents, parents and Rachael’s parents. It was a team effort and it transformed the bus from a creepy former school bus to a shiny adventuremobile.
FREE Camping in Southern California
We were pleasantly surprised to find more than enough FREE camping SoCal and we didn’t have to camp in a Wal-Mart parking lot! Below are some of our favorite sites from our time in Southern California.
FREE CAMPING: Carson National Forest- Tres Piedras, NM
GPS: 36.655331, -105.977997 We had planned on pushing through to Durango, CO and instead opted to stay near Taos, NM in the Carson National Forest. We found this campsite at www.freecampsites.net and it was spectacular.
New VLOG episode is LIVE- Driveway Downpour
The dreaded skoolie roof leak! We got rained on and woke up in a puddle of water while sleeping in our bus. In this episode of our Skoolie Conversion YouTube VLOG we find the culprit, fix the problem and get a restful night’s sleep. Check it out below!
FREE Camping: Wapta Falls Recreation Site-Field, British Columbia
If you haven’t noticed yet, we don’t like paying for camping. We especially don’t like paying for camping when we are traveling through beautiful Western Canada and every dollar means we can stay on the road a little longer and see more of this beautiful country. Many thanks to the British Columbia Recreation Department for…
Rachael Doesn’t Have to Ride in a Lawn Chair Anymore!
Okienomads VLOG Episode 10 is live on YouTube! In this episode we : ✔️Grab conversion van chairs from a junkyard ✔️Take out the old crusty seat ✔️Install the new (to us) seats
New VLOG Episode: Christmas with the Okienomads
We thought you would want to know that we have a new VLOG episode live on our YouTube Channel right meow! We spent much of the break avoiding working on the bus and spending time with family and friends instead. No worries, we are back home and working away on the Skoolie once again. You…
New VLOG Episode: Build Updates & Drone Footage
We have a new VLOG episode live giving an update of our progress on the bus conversion. We are roughly 50% done with the bus and it seems like projects keep getting easier and faster as we go. *The GoPro on the drone had an SD card error on the first battery flight, so there…