So you’ve decided you actually want a washer and dryer in your bus. Not just “can you” but “how do you.” This one is about the actual install — the decisions, the tradeoffs, and the stuff that’ll trip you up if you don’t think about it ahead of time. (See our guide on Can You … Read more
If you’ve got kids and you’re thinking about full-time bus life, the education question is probably the one keeping you up at night. Not the plumbing. Not the parking. The school stuff. Homeschooling on a bus is not only doable, it’s become one of the strongest arguments for this lifestyle. State requirements vary wildly but … Read more
You’ve probably driven past a field of old yellow buses sitting behind a chain-link fence and thought, “I wonder if those are for sale.” I did. More than once. It’s actually what pushed me deeper into the skoolie world than I ever expected to go. (See our guide on Is a Skoolie Cheaper Than Buying … Read more
If there’s one question I saw more than any other when I started digging into bus life, it was some version of “where do you actually park this thing?” Not at a campground for $50 a night — people wanted to know how to do it cheap. Or free. And honestly, once I started looking … Read more
The kitchen is the one part of a skoolie build where almost every decision connects to something else — your layout affects your plumbing, your cooktop choice affects your power system, your counter material affects your weight budget. I spent way too long going back and forth on kitchen details when I was planning, and … Read more
The bathroom is one of those builds that sounds simple until you’re standing in a gutted bus with a tape measure trying to figure out how to fit a shower, a toilet, and a sink into a space the size of a closet. But people do it all the time, and the results can be … Read more
Living in a bus sounds cheap on paper, but people always want to know what the real numbers look like once you’re actually doing it. I got asked this more than almost anything else when I started talking about bus life, and the answers I found varied so wildly that I had to sit down … Read more
If you’re shopping for a bus and you’ve looked at more than a few listings, you’ve probably noticed some have the engine up front under a hood and others have a flat face with the engine tucked somewhere in the back. It matters more than most people think, and it affects almost every part of … Read more
This is one of those questions that comes up in every single bus conversion group, and I spent a ridiculous amount of time going back and forth on it myself. The answer seems obvious at first — just build it yourself and save money, right? But it’s really not that simple once you start looking … Read more
Living in a bus with two people is cozy. Living in a bus with five or more is a whole different game, and it’s the thing I get asked about more than almost anything else. (See our guide on How Do You Get a Mailing Address Living in a Bus? for more on this.) Big … Read more