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MCI Bus Clean Up Begins
The big red bus was purchased and was now parked in front of our new headquarters (the diner turned into our shop and offices). Now the real fun began. In addition to removing the lavatory in the rear of the bus, we also removed all the siding/paneling from the inside and most of the rubber…
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Installing the AC Units on our MCI Bus Conversion
The first of two AC units are now installed and working. It is really really hot here, I am sure we will use this AC for all its worth. This was actually an amazing amount of work to get these two A/C units on the top of the bus, cut the holes in the steel,…
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Our MCI-9 Bus Conversion is Under Way
We now finished the painting on the side of the bus where the windows were taken out. You can’t see to much from the photo but I think Scott would rather the photo be taken from this far away being that this was his first paint job on a vehicle.
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RoadTrek Camping in the Florida Keys
Back in our younger days, we used to go in the water. HAHA. These are from a quick trip that we took to the Florida Keys. We stayed at either Bahia Honda or John Pennekamp State Park and enjoyed some fun, albeit cold snorkeling.
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Finding the Right MCI Bus for a Conversion
After the quilt show in Fort Lauderdale we headed for Heartland Motor Coach in Ocala, FL (update: they are no longer in business) to look at a few buses they would have that might be suitable for our new bus conversion project (or our traveling home). They had two or three that we were interested…
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We Bought an MCI-9 Bus for Conversion
After the quilt show in Fort Lauderdale we headed for Heartland Motor Coach in Ocala, FL to look at a few busses. They had two or three that we were interested in. Scott had been discussing the various ones available and prices with Ron, the salesman there, through email and now we were actually going…
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Arriving in Creede Colorado in the RoadTrek
My parents built a cabin in Creede, Colorado many years ago. The cabin was quite large and beautiful and the property it was on was about 2-3 acres. This property was large enough for them to park their class A motorhome and for us to park our RoadTrek (and eventually our bus) at the same…
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Tailgating in the RoadTrek
In my last post I mentioned how we had come to rent a virtually abandoned country diner and used it as a base of operations for our business at the time. One of the main reasons we chose that particular building was that it was close to Auburn, Alabama, home of Auburn University. Most of…
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An Office to Park the Bus
What would possess a moderately intelligent couple to move from the house in the photo below to the Kountry Kitchen, also below? At the time these photos were taken, we had our “reasons.” However, in hindsight, it is always easier to see what the real goal was. We had been living in this beautiful house…
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Driving Through the Desert Land
I cannot remember where these photos were taken, except to say that they were shot somewhere in the southwest United States, most likely Nevada, or New Mexico. We were probably on our way to or from Las Vegas on this trip.
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