Living in the bus — daily life, travel, financial, health, parking
If you’re thinking about full-time bus life, there’s one question that towers above all the others. Not “where do you park?” or “how do you shower?” — it’s “how do you make money?” Because without a reliable income, the dream dies before it starts. And in 2025, remote work isn’t just possible from a skoolie … Read more
Travel planning in a skoolie is nothing like planning a road trip in a car. I learned that pretty quickly. You can’t just punch an address into Google Maps and go. You’ve got height restrictions, weight limits, fuel stops that need to actually fit your vehicle, and a whole list of roads that will either … Read more
I didn’t plan to write a guide this long about living with animals in a bus. But the more I dug into it, the more I realized how much there is to cover, and how many people are getting tripped up by stuff that’s pretty easy to solve if you know about it ahead of … Read more
I’ll be honest, when I first started digging into bus conversions, I was focused entirely on the residential side of things. Living in a bus, traveling, all that. But I kept running into people who weren’t just living in their buses — they were working out of them. Running actual businesses. And the more I … Read more
When I first started researching bus life, I assumed it was mostly a young person’s game. Twenty-somethings with remote jobs and matching flannels living in buses they painted matte black and named something like “The Rolling Stone.” And yeah, that crowd exists. But the more I dug into this world, the more I realized that … Read more
If you’re thinking about doing the bus thing by yourself, you’ve probably noticed that most of the content out there is aimed at couples and families. The build tours, the floor plans, the budgets — almost all of it assumes there’s at least two people involved. I spent a lot of time digging into what … Read more
If you’re thinking about buying a bus to convert, there’s one question that comes up before almost anything else — how much is this thing gonna cost me to drive? I get it. I had the same anxiety when I was first researching. You look at this massive vehicle and picture yourself at the pump … Read more
Nobody wants to talk about this stuff. I get it. You’re watching bus tour videos and dreaming about mountain views and freedom, and the last thing on your mind is what happens when you get a sinus infection in rural New Mexico or your kid spikes a fever at 2 AM in a Walmart parking … Read more
So you’ve been watching the YouTube tours. You’ve seen the couples with the gorgeous wood-paneled interiors parked next to a lake somewhere in Colorado. You’ve seen the family of six who sold everything and hit the road in a yellow school bus they bought for $4,000. And now there’s a part of your brain that … Read more
When I first heard the word “boondocking” I thought it was something people made up. It sounded like a joke. But the more I dug into bus life, the more I realized that boondocking — camping off-grid on public land for free — is basically the backbone of the whole skoolie lifestyle for a lot … Read more