BusBuilding

This month’s electricity bill in the sticks and bricks.

As expensive as a monthly rental in a halfway decent RV Park.

I’m ready.

Among the resources offered by the Escapees RV Club is a pdf download booklet, “How to Become a Real Texan” detailing how to deal with the issue of domicile once you’ve decided to sell the house and become an RV fulltimer.

Escapees offers a complete support network for the serious RVer. Get the Escapees information kit for further info.

Many folks follow the famed ‘Vagabonders Supreme’ Tioga and George. As they prepare to head north this week after a nice summer in Santa Rosalia, MX, George prepares his garden for his absence during the next many months.

He’s been helping friend Michel get a custom desk and working area built in Michel’s Lazy Daze RV. What got my attention was the beautiful custom cabinetry that cost $250 USD labor and materials for the new office desk.

Man, I’m heading to Mexico for my cabinetmaking and finishout!

Low cost movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and under water. The Micro Dwellings can expand and grow together with other systems into small communities. They can be built onto rooftops of existing buildings or be suspended from a bridge or a wall.

The MICRO DWELLINGS consist of equal-sized units in the form of truncated octahedrons. Truncated octahedra will fill space when combined. They can also be joined with a variety of platonic and archimedic shapes into numerous combinations. The truncated octahedron is a plate-stable construction, which means that the construction once the plates are assembled, need no further reinforcement, as the plates themselves provide the support.

[Denmark’s Micro Dwellings]

It rides smooooth, baby!
Nick Russell, editor of the famed fulltiming publication, the Gypsy Journal, writes in the December ‘Meandering Down the Highway’ column:

“So how smooth does our MCI bus conversion ride with its air bag suspension? We have our manual DirecWay internet dish mounted on the roof of our bus and access it through a safety hatch over our bed.

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Random goings on with travelers I keep up with…

Flying Cloud had a less-than-enjoyable time at Epcot
George replaces a circuit breaker in Santa Rosalia
Jim & Chris lead the life of leisure in Quartzsite

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