Living in the bus — daily life, travel, financial, health, parking
Once you’re parked somewhere in a 35-foot school bus, you realize pretty quickly that you need a way to get around town without firing up the big rig every time you need milk. Towing a smaller vehicle behind your skoolie is how most full-timers solve that problem, but the method you choose matters a lot … Read more
Winter is coming and your bus is basically a steel box on wheels. If you’ve never been through a cold season in a skoolie, the list of things that can go wrong is longer than you’d think — frozen pipes, dead batteries, condensation dripping off the ceiling onto your pillow at 3 AM. Getting a … Read more
Summer in a skoolie is a different animal than winter, and honestly I think it catches more people off guard. Everyone worries about cold weather because it sounds dramatic, but heat is the thing that actually makes people miserable day to day. Getting your bus ready before the temps climb is the difference between enjoying … 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
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
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
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
When I first started figuring out the whole full-time travel thing, I assumed I’d just use Google Maps and wing it. That lasted about three days before I realized there’s a whole ecosystem of apps and tools that people rely on to find camping, dodge low bridges, get wifi, and save money on diesel. So … Read more