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Installing Kitchen Lights in the Bus
These posts seem to be out of order, a bit, however, here is a look at the lighting we added to the cabinets in the kitchen. Posts about the cabinet construction are also on this blog somewhere.
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Trisonic Ski Boat in Chocowinity Campground
This post comes after we have reduced our vehicle fleet to just the bus and a Ford F150 that we purchased in North Carolina. We decided to take a bit of a break from traveling to the cross country shows when our internet business was going well and gas prices were skyrocketing. Our break time…
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Finding Room for the Dogs in the Bus
Pets, especially dogs, adapt to their surroundings rather quickly in most cases. This is even more true when the surroundings change, but the owners stay consistent. Dogs are pack animals and when they are your pets, they want to be where you are, regardless of where that is. Our dogs adapted very quickly to life…
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Putting Dagger Kayaks on the RoadTrek Van
One of our hobbies during the time we owned the RoadTrek and while we were working on the bus conversion was kayaking. We had two wonderful Dagger kayaks that we wanted to carry with us and this was the solution for the RoadTrek application. It worked out really well at the time.
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Interior Woodwork in the Bus
The first of our interior walls have been constructed and installed. In the photos below, you can see that Scott’s desk area has been formed inside the bedroom. In the lower photos, you can see the bed frame/pedestal has also been installed. The bed pedestal is a plywood platform that sits on a frame and…
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Taking a Bus Conversion on a Ferry
One of the interesting (and sometimes scary) things about owning a very large vehicle, like a bus, is the question that always sits in the back of your mind: Will we fit in or under that? Usually, the question comes up when you are looking at bridge clearances. However, in this case, we were taking…
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MCI Conversion Interior Shell Build
The bus was looking so much better on the inside with all of the paneling up on the walls and the back area shell completed. Cleaning up was easier, too. Everything was slowly becoming new where before it was all old and nasty. It was a lot of work to get it to this point,…
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Installing MCI Bus Lower Bins
Here are some more photos of the lower bins and the work we did to finish them off.
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Painting the MCI Bus Panels
In the photos below you can see the panels that were installed where the windows used to be. The back panel is where our bedroom would eventually be and the center panels were where the bathroom and kitchen pantry area were to be located. Taking out the windows meant that we could build inside from…
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Taking the City Bus Ticker Down
At this writing, I can say that I really wish we had kept the City Ticker Roll for some later project, but we did not. We managed to get the steel box removed from the front of the bus with a grinder and many hours of work. Then we removed the ticker from the box…
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