These fraternity brothers weren’t interested in doing another year of online college, so they decided to convert a 1999 Thomas 3800 DT466E school bus and hit the road instead. They had a tight budget of $10K, including the cost of the bus itself. Amazingly, they managed to stay pretty close to budget and were still [...]
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His School Bus Has A Rooftop Putting Green
This is Jax Austin’s amazing school bus home — and it’s his second build-out! He has been on the road for about 5 years now, including during the pandemic and through a year+ of cancer treatments. On top of his skoolie sits a party deck complete with a golfing green. Inside he has gorgeous live-edge [...]
Mike’s Chevy Express 3500 Short Bus Life
Mike was living his Wall Street life working in finance and running a million miles a minute. But then COVID sent him home, and he spent 150 days traveling the US in his car. That experience changed him, and he realized he couldn’t go back to “normal” life again. So he ended up buying and [...]
Family’s Under-$11k Bus-Based Tiny Home
Adam and Chelsea knew each other in high school, but reconnected after some time in the military where they individually traveled the globe. Once married they kept traveling and one of Chelsea’s friends showed her skoolies. At first, the couple thought it was insane. But after diving down the #Skoolie Instagram rabbit hole they were [...]
Outback Skoolie with a LUXURY Bathroom
After Nicole lost her mother, her entire perspective on life changed and she and her husband, Charlie, jumped into a bus conversion so they could travel more. Neither of them had ever used power tools, but you’d never know from looking at their Outback-inspired build! It has a stunning kitchen complete with an oven and [...]
He Came Home to a Bus in His Driveway: “This is Our Tiny Home!”
“Hey, whose bus is in the driveway?” – Chris “That’s our tiny home.” – Chris’ wife, Carol And that’s how it all started! After Chris and Carol saw skoolies at an Atlanta tiny house show, Carol caught the bug, and two weeks later Chris came home to the bus Carol purchased. Then he and some [...]
From California Lockdown To Freedom In Her Skoolie!
Paige moved out her California apartment when the city called a shelter-in-place. Not knowing how long the lockdown would last, she started looking for other living options when she stumbled on a picture of a man living in his school bus with 9 dogs! From then-on, she was obsessed. There was no turning back — [...]