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
Living in a bus with pets is one of those things that sounds either perfect or completely insane, and honestly it lands somewhere in the middle most days. Dogs, cats, even the occasional rabbit — they all show up in bus builds, and the people who make it work will tell you it’s the best … Read more