Why a school bus?

We're so glad you asked!

On our first wedding anniversary, Joshua and I created a vision board for what we wanted out of life in the next couple of years.

 One of the key points was to get out of debt. Our only significant debt is our mortgage, which by most standards is very low, but is still a debt. We dream of building a small home using green building methods. After exploring several different paths which all required taking out a loan, we began researching RV living and found a way to get to our goals and have fun doing it! But after a couple of weeks investigating RV's, we grew discouraged with the building quality and the lack of potential return on our investment. 

As artists, we're quick with new ideas. We created a new vision board focusing on the adventure of our housing transition. 

Natural, off-grid, less stress, wild. All words that are cueing this next phase of our housing journey. We wanted to purposely scale back our square footage to explore tiny living. Within a few days, we stumbled on a listing for a converted school bus for sale just up the road from us. We toured it one night and came away very encouraged - this is something we CAN do!! And we can do it now with the money we have in hand. We didn't purchase that first bus, but we did actively search out other buses and found our No Fuss Bus just over the mountains in Brevard, NC. 

We will be selling our home and using the profit to put into the purchase of land and to begin saving in order to build debt free. 

What the big goal in all this? It's two-fold: to live debt free and to have an adventure while we get there. 

So for today, we continue drawing, sketching, listing our hearts desires and step into the adventure of making those things come true on a school bus!