We Have a Bus!!!

very exciting news, we now have a bus!

levi and i went down to Oceanside today to inspect some school busses that were being put up for auction on ebay. We couldn't afford the really big one (84 seater), but were able to win this 54 seater:

It's standard size- not super big, but will make for a cozy conversion. We won the auction with a bid of $3,100 - a pretty good price for a 1993 bus. It's an automatic with a diesel engine, and a little over 300,000 miles on it. hoping it will make it another 10,000! We will be converting our bus to bio-diesel, pulling out the seats, and paintingit up for our Road to Oprah, leaving in 8 weeks!

I'm pretty excited we have a bus! we had been looking at some older Crown's and Gilligs- which are really beautiful busses, but in the end we went for a bus we think has a better shot of making it across the country in 45 days of solid driving. this bus comes directly from the school system, so it has been really well maintained and has all of its papers. no guarantee or warantee though, so it remains to be seen what will happen along the way. we could have kept looking, but time is ticking, and we only have 8 weeks to get it road ready.

so now that we have our bus, we can start to fix it up! If anyone wants to help fix up our bus over the summer, we will be working on it at the Armory Center for the Arts over the next 2 months, after we pick up the bus on Tuesday.

i'll post some pics of our trip to Oceanside soon. Thanks again to ALL of our producers who chipped in to help us get this far. you all rock.

bus to all,

n