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hi i'm adrian i'm from prince
my name is carly and i'm from california
this is our boss genget and we are
coming to you live from british columbia
and we are so excited to show you our
bus
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i think it all started when we were
traveling in france i
with my dad built a van
that we enjoyed together in the south of
france and all the way to switzerland
and we thought how could we do the same
thing in the states but adrena had an
idea to do it maybe a little bit bigger
thinking conceptually something that we
knew was going to be important was going
to be able to host a lot of people for
dinners we it required having a living
room yeah we could have gone golden with
a smaller bus maybe but having a front
space like we have now and being able to
receive up to six people that was
definitely something we wanted to have
we decided to call our bus gengat it is
a type of gathering which happens in
france which is always in a setting
close to nature by a river with
colorful string lights or not colorful
we bought the bus in sacramento and
adrian could only be in sacramento for
three months at a time because tourist
visa so there was a really big
constraint in three months we had time
to demolish the inside remove the seats
remove the floor the original ceiling
we insulated we installed the wood
burning stove our bed at the back and
then i moved
to canada and kept working on the way
wherever i could stop uh it was raining
a lot every time i had a piece of wood
to cut you know i had to go into the
rain
that that was uh a difficulty for sure
for one person it would be a full year
full time i think something like that it
was a lot of work we thought that twenty
thousand dollars would be a good budget
and uh we're pretty close to that
actually yeah and uh also pretty close
to having a finished bus with a few
little things of course there's always
something that you want to add but it's
pretty close
so this is ginget she is a 97 bluebird
has a allison transmission and a cummins
engine 33 feet 10 meters and the other
thing that was really important was
looking for rust which is pretty easy in
california the style of the paint job we
were inspired by another schoolie that
we saw and we really liked what they had
done with the stripes and with the green
and the white
so we decided to
emulate what they had done very
important to use the tropical roof paint
that does provide a lot of cooling
fortunately we had a really helpful
neighbor julian who was able to lend us
a sprayer and really give us a lot of
the tips on how to use it days and days
and days of sanding
scraping
and then the actual painting took like
two days all together with drying these
storage bins we knew that we wanted
these on our bus so it was really great
when we saw them
you'll have to excuse us this is
basically our garage we didn't prep this
for you guys
it's really wonderful because everything
that is kind of
dirty doesn't have to come inside the
bus it stays right here here we have
this is where the clean water goes into
our tank and this is just to drain clean
water here we have the engine
compartment
we do have a rear engine rear engine is
quieter when you're driving that was
important to us
and then layout wise it just worked out
really well
less to see on this side but if we want
to be plugged into shore power we can
here
ideally the plan is to be completely off
grid that's why we have these two
awesome solar panels
600 watts
but sometimes if it's a very cold winter
in canada it's very useful to be able to
plug into shore power and to be able to
run the bus a feature that is really
exciting to us is our back door in
different layout iterations we thought
about maybe covering this maybe not
using it anymore but it's really nice to
have two entrances to the bus
and oftentimes if we have something
really heavy or during the build if we
wanted to be able to just put put it in
the bus it was really convenient to get
it right here and into the back half of
the bus here we have a panel to access
the air brakes
and
here's the original bus electrical
adriam
has made some changes removed some of
the stuff that we didn't need anymore
like that sweet stop sign but other than
that this is just the best electrical
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hi
come on in
so this is the front of gengat
we have the cockpit
a lot here
people uh ask how easy it is to drive a
bus and i just have to say it's actually
quite easy
as long as you're aware how big you are
everything still works so i just reused
some of the switches for
convenience i added for example
a rear camera here which is very
convenient i could stop right by the
table here as you can see earlier
we wanted to have some space here
because all of this area was used for
nothing pretty much only that fan so we
decided to add a counter here and uh
it's strong enough for
a lot of people to sit on as well when
we have lots of guests
we have a tv on a swivel here as well
it's actually a
computer monitor and
we plug it to our laptop and we can
watch movies series also work
i have a second screen for work we have
two couches one becomes a bed when we
wanna host people
and we use the cushion of the other side
to make a two person belt we have a
swivel table here which is pretty nice
for the two of us and sometimes more
it's on a legon swivel
mount
which is quite convenient this bench is
a wheel well as well so unfortunately we
cannot use
the space for storage but
we managed to salvage some space here
and have a shoe rack we have a cubic
mini grizzly here which has been working
very well for us
some wood storage on the side some
keylings underneath
welcome to the kitchen
we built it mostly with pallet wood that
we
managed to find like all of this is made
with pallets made with pallets and this
is new but
from home depot
both of those
and
we have a large sink it's a laundry sink
we wanted something very big and deep
so that's what we got this and that was
just a leftover of one of the counter
here i managed to
cut a little bit the size here and it
fits perfectly here
so when we drive it doesn't fly around
here espresso machine we do not have a
massive power bank so whenever we use
the coffee machine
we'd rather have some sun at the same
time
otherwise the voltage of the batteries
because they are lead acid
is dropping too low so
we only have sunny coffee mornings we
really liked the idea of the jars
hanging like this it's been nice it
looks good and it doesn't fall
is a good point
we have a
shelf up here
which
supports our glasses
some spices on this side a little fun
here for when we cook
on the side this is a 1950s stove that
curly found
on marketplace you had to change the gas
nozzles to make it run with propane and
some air intake adjustments as well a
very nice little bar that we use a lot i
even have a chair that i use sometimes
here and it's sometimes my office when i
work at home and i have the screen right
there we have a compressor fridge right
underneath here
this is a way to lock it so it doesn't
go too far when driving
and uh we put it on a drawer like that
so it's easy to access on-demand water
heater with the outside exhaust here i
used to have a vent less water heater
turns out they didn't warm up the water
enough especially in cold winter here in
canada
so we got rid of it and we got one with
a vent and we can actually
we have more adjustments for water
temperature now it's we can have very
hot showers this is our
electrical panel we have well the
selection of the color for the living
room here and the intensity we have leds
running uh or on the other side of the
living room this is our battery monitor
which tells us the state of the
batteries and whether it's charging or
dis or discharging and this is our solar
control panel and some switches for
different systems like water pump
lights this is
to read our
water
tank levels this is the fresh water tank
and the gray water tank
this is where our
two batteries are there are golf
cart batteries six volts connected in
series for a 12 volt bank of 220 amp
hours
this is not huge but so far it's been
enough because we are plugged in in
winter so the lack of solar
is made
and this is our inverter charger this is
a 2200 watts pure sign
it also charges so whenever we are
plugged into the outside we have the
option of charging the batteries if we
want this is our bathroom we have the
shower here with a concrete wall we
decided to
completely build it
the reason is we have a tight and
awkward space here and we're looking at
pre-made shower pants
trying to find a way to fit that
somewhere and
turns out it was too complicated so we
decided to just go from scratch
plywood concrete boards
and
exactly the size we wanted we built that
shower pan at the very bottom with some
one by twos stained and then protected
and we even have
a little bench here i don't know why but
there is a bench in the shower
this is a
sink that we made out of a copper salad
bowl that we found on marketplace
five dollars maybe
composting toilets nothing fancy home
depot buckets you know welcome to the
bedroom hallway so
we
have a
1941 world map and i just want to say
thank you bernard it works very well
here
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closet here
this is our
queen size bed
so it feels like
like a house it's very
very white comfortable and
we have some
closet space on both sides
storage up there this is a painting made
by my friend pierre in france so thank
you pierre as well
also some storage
underneath the bed and this is also
where we have
our water tank which is behind here
it's a
200 liter water tank which
usually lasts us for
five days if we take showers the two of
us the engine
in some other cases would take space
that cannot be used otherwise
and in this case it just raises our bed
a bit but it still allows us to use the
full length
i made a lot of mistakes i really did a
lot of things
but it was nice that because i was
living in the bus every time i would add
something it would improve my daily life
go to sleep and think oh next day i can
i can use a counter to cook
or i have a sink now and it actually
drains somewhere i don't have to empty a
bucket
things like that gradually it really
improves that's nice i remember that the
first month of traveling yeah i wasn't
sure what
people would think i would stop
at the parking lot and
so many people looked
at the bus and looked at the personnels
coming out of it
and i don't know if it was like that is
weird what is that thing or where are
they curious and it turned out that 90
of the time people are smiling and
saying hi oh cool bus can i take a peek
so i was very pleasant
and
i loved giving tours and i love
answering questions
so
yeah not good he likes the attention
i think that this project has taught me
um i tend to be a planner i like things
very very very planned and adrian is
kind of the opposite so we make a good
team athlean likes to do things so
oftentimes we would approach a different
project and i would say okay but what
are all the different ways we could do
it what if we did it this way what if we
did this way and honestly if i were
building this bus by myself it would
take me maybe 10 years because of all of
the iterations
so i think that we have taught each
other that a little bit of both is
important maybe taking a step back
considering a few different options and
then doing it um and then if you do it
wrong or if you don't like it
it's yours you can just change it so
it's not the end of the world it doesn't
have to be
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