Remember Dial-Up?

HELLO FROM OREGON! We made it in one piece! After following the Oregon Trail for many, many miles, we arrived at the campground on Thursday and started working on Saturday ("work" consisting of running the office, cleaning cabins after folks leave, yardwork, etc.). The owners Jim and Babe gave us a great parking spot right off the creek and away from other campers. Black Dog loves going swimming every day and Zach and I love being able to ride our bikes again. We've got views of Mount McLoughlin from our site and are surrounded by creeks, lakes, wilderness areas, national forests and parks, and state forests and parks. The weather has been nice and sunny!

We don't get wireless or high speed internet out here, but we do have access to a computer on dial-up. Posts with pictures will be a little farther and fewer between ... we plan on updating more so when we go to town. That and we need another memory card!

We just bought a cheap car and hope to have it road worthy soon. I'll let Zach tell you more about THAT one ... hahaha.

Until next time ...

Kelly

PS - WE LIVE IN A SCHOOL BUS!

Pics

We will have pics soon our memory card is full and need to get another one. We will be hitting the road here in a 2 1/2 days!!! We have moved most of our things in the bus today, and had over 15 people around the neighborhood in the bus today! We think we have inspired many folks over the last few weeks of us parking here at our house.
The drive to OR is going to be a long one the GPS says that it is going to be 863 miles! that's over 180 gallons of diesel fuel, Can't wait to be on feggie oil! that will come next year we are hoping. well we will have pics soon.

"Sun shine day dream"

NEW BROOM!

These are some pics of the work that we have been doing in the last week, filled in a wall with new boards, put in a shelf in the bed room and got a broom. Keep checking back will have more pics soon! MOVING IN IN 10 DAYS!!! TO CRATER LAKE IN OREGON!

Two weeks notice

Closer and closer each day, we are within two weeks now of truckin' on down the road!

we have done lots we now have a work bench on the out side of the bus, and Hardwood flooring as well as running water!

Out with the old, in with the new!
Ya man...
Our first night in the bus!!

Brick by brick

Power power! Yes we have power now with lights and outlets. Last week I took my first stab at home electric and did not get sapped, few! The power system is rigged for power coming from a city grid, YUCK! but not for long its wired so that putting in our solar system will be not that much of a nightmare.

Here is our diner table light that I got at a local hardware store. The lady their just about jumped into the rafters when I told her what we are doing with it.
Our range is all plumbed for the propane that is under the bus, and we are already cooking on it! the fridge is running, but I caught it an threw it back in!

The book shelf, it will soon have led lights under it that should look nice and they draw very few watts.

Our bed with our water tank under it, witch we will be plumbing here some time soon. The tank will have a tank heater and so will the lines, the benefit of us having the water system inside the bus will be so that we can keep it from freezing, an it will be easy to access the lines and pump inside the bus.


More pics to come.

- Zach

D'OH!

Zach pointed out to me that I forgot to add a picture of the fireplace. You can see it in the bottom corner of one of the pictures I posted, but the damn thing is so awesome that it deserves it's own picture.


WE HAVE TAGS! Zach and I drove into Bozeman today to register the bus and got its Montana license plates. Pretty exciting.

Zach has discovered a pile of scrap 2x4's that have that vintage barn look to them. We're using them in the bus and it's looking pretty cool. Also got a wood box built so we don't have to go outside every time we need to add to the fire. It looks really good and already has a handful of logs in it.

The way things are going, we'll only need a little more to get the bus in living condition. The plan is:

-Lay thin wood paneling on the ceiling. This would cover the millions of holes in the original sheet metal as well as screw holes from the shelves that were in it as an activity bus. And it would look freaking schweet.
-Run our wiring for electricity.
-Acquire propane hoses and a propane tank for the kitchen stove and fridge.
-Acquire water hoses, hot water heater, and put it all together.
-Build our bed.
-Insure it.

I think that was all ... that's some pretty basic stuff that (hopefully) won't take long. We've got two months until our lease is up here, which means that the days 'til we move into the bus are limited! Yeah! Aren't sure exactly where we'll be this summer, but we plan to continue our building and blogging!

Kelly and Zach