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the Army and had the desire to live nomadically so they decided to build a home inside of a bus
the inside of this schooly conversion is super cute and cozy and since they built it themselves
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what's up guys I'm Austin and I'm Jenny and we're the bumping bus
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I did not grow up in a camping family we did go like I guess the normal amount like there wasn't
something that we did often and a big reason for that is because I live with my stepdad and he was
full-time Army so he can't all the time so when it came to time like for the family to go camping
he just never wanted to our journey in the Army we must have signed up like pretty close so our
contracts lined up we were in the same section and then yeah we just started talking to each other
and hanging out and like got to know each other like after basic training and everything and we
both just did four and a half years that's how we met through the Army you honestly don't have a lot
of freedom when you're in the military we knew we just wanted to travel at some point in our lives
and we weren't super sure about it we were just telling each other like you know can we build
this we've never built anything ever but we had the space we had a year before we got out of the
army and then we we had a full-time job both of us and so it was like we had the money to
slowly start piecing together the build and all that and yeah we just found the bus and
I think once we bought the bus it was like game on [Music] we had a howling Army so we had this
little section next to our house like where we parked the bus right next to our garage it was
so it was actually like a really good spot to build the bus out and it took us about a year
we would like work on the bus from as soon as we would wake up until we go to bed we
would go all day without eating sometimes because we're working on the bus Non-Stop
the bus was four thousand dollars and the build total was like 28
000. everything equaled out to like 32 000 with everything included the bus and the build yeah
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so we got the bus from someone on Facebook Marketplace and we went and looked at a couple
other buses but this was the one that just spoke to us we painted our bus with Sherwin Williams
paint I don't really know what color you call it we started thinking that we were going to
do a two-tone ended up with one and we thought it was going to be a little bit more reddish orange
and now it's like some weird pink color but we really like it turned out good I swear it's orange
so this is one of my favorite features of the outside of our bus and I really wanted
an outdoor table so we can have drinks out here drink my wine and have meals together
so this is the roof of our bus up here we have 800 watts of solar we have two Max Air fans up here
which keep us really cool in the summer because we can have one blowing in and one blowing out and it
creates a nice breeze we also have our starlink mounted up here which means we can have internet
wherever we go [Music] so this is our water heater we chose to do like a regular RV water
heater that just pushes into the wall and I really like this actually it runs fully on propane it's
on demand so we don't have like a tank that we had to find space for or whatever and it doesn't
take much power at all because it's just the 12 volt run in the monitor but it's just easy to
access this way and if we ever need to swap it we just pull it out and put a new one right back in
so our bus was originally a handicap bus and so
we got this sweet door on the side that's just massive and we left this
as more or less our garage space so this is where we stuff everything it's a mess but up here's our
bed and some storage and stuff and it's really nice on sunny days we can just lay up there and
hang out and look out of this window and we did this little 550 cord and a clip so we can just
leave it open so for back storage we realized we'd really need extra storage just to carry
like dirty stuff like the gas and the diesel and really our mini split so we did this hitch
mounted rack I wired the mini split on its own so it ends here and then recently we installed
this little hose for the gray tank hose and it's super convenient I definitely recommend doing that
we're really happy that we have that side door because after mounting all this stuff and we
knew this would happen but we needed the space the back door only opens too right there it is
still usable storage but otherwise we can't open it and lay back there and look out that's what the
side door is for so this is our water inlet tube we have 100 gallons of fresh water and we have
55 gallons of gray water and these are the only windows in the bus that we deleted our bedroom is
on the other side and it kind of keeps the bus cooler in the bedroom all right so again this
is the 5.9 liter Cummins 24 valve so far it's been great we chose this engine specifically because we
knew that it was a good reliable engine we could put a lot of miles on it I think we're at like 218
000 right now and then our odometer quit so we have no idea what we're at [Music]
now that you've seen ever bus follow me and see the inside
so this is the entryway to our bus we have redone these stairs at least three times
since living in it we added like stair trim right here to keep the tile in place and so
far it's working really well I really like that we have a welcome mat on each step because we
can shake them out whenever they get dirty and then on the left over here we have shoe storage
and then in this area right here we have waffles litter box
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up front we did little Cubbies on each side then over here we have our switch and then we have a
cord that comes over for our camera instead of keeping the original like bus panel thing
we wired in this rocker panel which is super helpful it gives me like the voltage of what
our batteries are sitting at the bus batteries not the house batteries half of these switches
are wired to lights inside of our bus and then the rest are to the fans the clearance lights
are wired into there all right so on this side of the bus the first thing to point out is this
little armrest this is actually where we hide all of our wiring so it all meets here in the middle
our breaker box is down there that's where I wired everything into the back where the heat comes in
normally it would have just pushed out of the driver's side or out of you know these Vents
and we took a tube and routed it and just put our new vent here so when we're driving when
Ginny would sit back here I could just turn it so that the heat would blast towards her
this is our couch this is like the center point of our bus really we
wanted to do a huge couch just to have space you can sprawl out on it
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there's storage underneath this is also where we house our Batteries More wiring all of our
electrical setup stuff okay so on the other side of the entryway we just have this little
cushion it's perfect storage for the pet stuff and Jenny sits here as well whenever we drive [Music]
so when we were building our bus we knew we really wanted a big kitchen this is an eight foot
countertop butcher block and in the backsplash we have it's actually fake tile everyone thinks
it's real tile but it's just peel and stick and it's heat resistant and cleans really easily
so we have a 21 inch Greystone oven it's the perfect size for bus life we have tons of storage
in our in our kitchen I really love that we built so many cabinets in here and I cannot recommend
enough to get wooden plates if you are a traveler we had glass plates at first and they just kept
breaking every time we drove like we would have a new broken dish so wooden plates are really useful
As you move over here we have a large kitchen sink
it's really easy for doing lots of dishes in here you notice I have a collection of
plants and yes they're all real somehow I managed to keep them all alive foreign
so over here we have our dinette someone can sit right here and then someone can
also sit right here for having a meal together and this chair actually was
not supposed to be here when we first made our layout this was supposed to
be a wood burning stove area and we just decided to go with a diesel heater instead
over here we have our pantry it's pretty small I kind of wish we had a bigger pantry
this is our little bathroom it's very small very simple but it's everything we need and
more we did do the extra sink in the bathroom a lot of people just do the kitchen sink but
we enjoy having the separate space to like brush our teeth and get ready in the morning and stuff
instead of doing like a Nature's head or whatever we ended up doing a compost toilet like we just
built ourselves everything sits in there we use wood shavings to cover you know the poo
this wallpaper was was a process this is one of the hardest things that caused a couple fights but
I think it looks awesome in here now it is here so so the shower is actual tile this is actually the
only thing the bus that we did not do ourselves my dad helped me with this a ton because I've never
tiled anything and I could not come close to the job that he did so thank you Dad and then this is
I believe the only spot where we use the original bus light we just kept the light there it looked
kind of cool in there and then I just stole the wire and took it off the bus batteries and made
my own little switch this is where all the magic happens on our bus we have a queen size bed in
here and the only tough part about having the bed sideways is it's really hard to make the bed
up here we have a projector to the right over here is our projector screen
behind me we have our Pioneer mini split which keeps us really cool but we can only run the
mini split when it's on the generator we can't run enough solar yet and then over here we have
a little extra space where the mattress didn't come all the way to the wall so we have Austin
stores right here and then on the right side we have some storage for me as well and whenever
we want to look out the window we just take this projector down and then we can open up our door
it lets in a nice breeze and we can also see all our friends hey guys
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so someone feeling inspired to do this is just to do it the build and all that I mean
I really think that just about anybody can do it there's YouTube and Google and all that like we
only talk to like one person to help us out and that was for the tiling of the showers my dad
but just do it and then you know be smart about it as well like you know don't get squashed into
one idea like one idea might be more expensive or just less convenient for you so just like
if you want to travel just figure out the way to do that that fits you foreign [Music] [Applause]
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