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The Wild Drive shares honest tips, information and lessons learned in converting a 1989 bus into a tiny home on wheels. In 2016, we finished paying off $100,000 of student loan and vehicle debt and decided to explore tiny living. We purchased our first bus and converted it ourselves. We hit the road in 2018 and lived in our bus conversion full-time until 2020. Now, we’re renovating an old house together and look forward to creating another bus house in the future.
The bus was our catalyst, here’s how we built it.
We hope our imperfect story, research and experiences helps YOU in your journey. WELCOME to The Wild Drive.
The Mobile Wood Stove: Heating our Bus Conversion
The Mobile Wood Stove: Our Tips on Heating a Bus Conversion Tiny Home. There's a lot to consider when choosing your tiny home's source of heat. We chose to install a tiny wood stove in our bus conversion tiny home for many reasons which we'll dig into here. We love...
Wild Drive Life Featured on Tiny Home Tours
Our Wild Drive Life bus, a.k.a. "Kevin" was featured on the Tiny Home Tours YouTube Channel! Chris from Chris & G Travels recently reached out to us on Instagram to schedule a video tour and interview with us for his YouTube channel, Tiny House Tours. Our timing...
How much did our bus conversion cost? Planning & preparation for a mobile lifestyle…
How much does a bus conversion cost? Updated 10.20.20 One of the most frequently asked questions we receive is, "How much did your bus conversion cost?" The costs and investment associated with a bus conversion varies widely. It can be anywhere from a few thousand...
Painting Our Bus Conversion: What we used & how we did it.
Painting our 31 foot prison bus conversion ourselves was a major turning point in the project process. It was a reality check and flood of REAL emotions you don't often hear about among the perfectly curated social media posts of #vanlife and #buslife. Four Weeks of...
Bus Tiny Home Conversion Part Four – Then & Now…
The Wild Drive #buslife Recap Part Four - Then & Now The adventure of converting a retired prison bus into a cozy tiny home. What a wild ride this past year and a half has been. Retelling of the work completed and progress made is best told in pictures, so, here...
Bus Tiny Home Conversion Part Three
The Wild Drive #buslife Recap Part Three - Work, Work, and Inspiration Galore. Buying a bus is not a decision to take lightly. We’re over a year into things and approaching the end of our conversion so we've had a lot of time to reflect. Though "tiny" in size, this is...
Bus Tiny Home Conversion Part Two
The Wild Drive #buslife Recap Part Two - Mad Max Prison Bus, anyone? Sure! We’ll have a look-see. We drove an hour and a half down to MA to meet our… prison bus. We pulled into the parking lot and caught a glimpse of the 31 foot beast in all its glory: faded black...
Bus Tiny Home Conversion Part One
The Wild Drive #buslife Recap Part One - Debt Annihilation How did we go from +$100,000 of debt and being a signature away from purchasing a house to fully embracing the idea and reality of tiny living and a flexible, simple lifestyle? Magic. Nah, just...
Photographic Tour of Our Bus – Caution: Watch Your Step!
WELCOME to the photographic tour (circa March 2016) of our bus in its tons-of-work-ahead, semi-overwhelming yet promising state. Our next step, which we're actually REALLY excited about is to gut the entire thing. Here it is in all its original glory. The...
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