This story starts eight years ago, with a dream and a plan and a thousand revisions to each of those. However, we won’t start there because things are only now starting to get interesting. Instead, we’ll jump right in to the day I thought we would have to scrap the entire eight years of dreaming and planning, because we could never make it work. Boat buying is hard. It’s Labor Day Weekend, we’ve packed up our inflatable paddleboards and pointed…
We installed new window seals in our VW bus, since the old ones were disintegrating. It proved to be more challenging than we thought, but eventually our persistence prevailed!
We finally made it to the phase of our camper build where we adding things to the interior (instead of stripping things out)! We’re starting with paint, and we’re suckers for punishment so we did it all twice. Find out why, click to read more!
The odometer has been a constant plague. The little plastic odometer gear was broken when we bought the bus, and we fixed it 3 times. It looks like this final fix is actually working!
We’ve been doing a lot of work on the bus, so here’s an update of what we’ve found. It’s pretty clear that the guy we bought it from didn’t do any work on it other than to keep it running. The more we dig, the more work we find. So it’s pretty much a normal VW bus.
Every VW bus comes with a story. Here’s ours!
Our bus-buying trip was a wild adventure, rife with mishaps and mistakes, but in the end we got her home and can’t wait to see how this story plays out!