BusBuilding

25 feet of dancing light and shadow on the interior blinds at 7:30AM…

Two weeks of stormy rain, and finally Mr. Sun comes to visit.

After an elapsed time of months of preparation, the rooftops finally go up. Of course the actual preparation didn’t take months, but interleaving the job with all the other projects, it took that long to build everything, do the wiring, prepare it meticulously, and get ‘em up there.

Although Fast Fred would call them ugly carbunckles, I don’t think they take too much away from the “bussness” of the MC9.

I had quite ordeal deciding which units to get and if I ever become a better writer I’ll elaborate, but bottom line, chose Carrier AirV 15,000 BTU Heat Pumps. They had the highest CFM, highest BTU, and the heat pump decision I think is one I will appreciate mightily. Although I originally really wanted the low-profile units, they just didn’t have the output or combinations of options that I could get with the standard units. So tall and ugly they will stand!

New Steel - 1 1/2″ 14ga. square tubing, primed & ready for building the framework

Framework welded! Roof hole to be cut when ready for installation

Gwometts, surrounding the 10ga. Marine Wire

Insulation back in…

Ceiling Reinstalled, and paint/wibbits/caulk on the roof!

How quickly we fall out of love…

A few weeks ago I was in a quandary about where all the books in my home would go if/when I go fulltiming.

Hundreds of books. Stressing about which to take and which beloved books would have to be bid a wistful farewell.

In order to move just one of the several bookcases from the house to the coach, the entire thing would have to be unloaded - an ongoing postponed task.

Once it was emptied and transferred to the coach, secured and ready to populate with all these ‘beloved’ books, I found I didn’t want any of them there! I don’t want all those crusty books on philosophy, self-improvement, finance, corporate management and blaa blaa blaa. Eeww. Yuck.

I’m starting a new chapter, not rehashing the old!

Hmmm….what to put on the shelves, then?

Why, books on bus conversions, from Ben’s
rv-busconversions of course!


PS: Notice the slanted shelves? Hah! Thought I overlooked that one, did you?

Until I get a chance to update the site again, how ’bout an artsy photo at the top?