NOMADICISTA

I laughed when I saw the picture of the chain saw. It takes a deft touch to cut accurately, but I think it was a very clever approach.

Allow me to tell you about my dogs. Oh, by the way, would you pass the Grey Poupon? (HUH?) "Oh, I am sorry sir, but it was the usual brown". Well, that will have to do. Oh, where was I? oh yeah, dogs. Remember that little 1953 trailer you saw in one of the pictures? I said I had lived in i...

I gotta go now. It is time to walk the doggies. I have been posting for three hours now and I am getting brain fried. Perhaps later this evening, I will be able to get more stuff posted. Keep on Bussin' Rudy

Passenger side mockups. You will see how they ended up. There are still many pictures. Notice the front area above. All that metal was covered and the door was replaced with wood. I saved the placard that says ALL AMERICAN. I only recently discovered that that signifies the chassis that this bus is ...

A different view of the mock ups.

Stanley came over one music night and when I mentioned that I was going to put upper cabinets in the front room, he suggested we make up some mock ups. I got a bunch of cardboard from the shop and he proceeded to make these things so we could get the feeling of the ergonomics of it. This is in the f...

Build the bus. Build the bus.
Build the bus tonight.
Oh what fun, it is to build, the Blue Bird bus tonight.':)'

This is the hole I cut on the fridge wall to house the water tank. This was before we built the bed frame. This is at the foot of the bed. Notice how we insulated the wheel hump with bendable insulation.

There is lots of storage under the bed.

Here you can see where I cut that wall so I could stick the water tank under there as well as under the bed.

Now a twin bed. A view looking forward from the kitchen. On the left, part of the fridge, the curtain, then the bed. On the right some wires from the box. You can see that the wall has been insulated. It is now covered with the grey carpet.

Another bed view. As I mentioned, there is insulation on the floor and on top of that, I put 1/2 inch plywood. You can barely see the Stanley insulation on the wheel hump. At the foot of the bed is a wall. It is the fridge area wall. The fridge sits high so there was room to put the water tank under...

Hallway view of bed looking towards the rear. Again made from 3/4 inch birch ply and fastened with L brackets from the inside. Much storage underneath. The floor underneath is insulated with 3/4 inch stiff board insulation as well as the side wall.

When I got this bus, there was already an area for the fridge to be housed. There was no fridge though. So Shawn and I took some measurements and went to the Dodge motorhome that I am dismantling. Lo and behold, with just a minor adjustment, we got the fridge out of the motorhome and installed it in...

Over the right front wheel hump, I built one of the dog beds out of 3/4 plywood. Underneath it is my clothes hamper. All of the cabinets are put together with L brackets on the inside so you don't see any screws. I have gone through 200 of them now. The ceramic tiles you see next to the bed are goin...