Deconstruction

Now that Zara and I are really settled into our life in Vancouver, we have some more time and money to re-visit some of the aspects of the bus that we were never quite satisfied with in our initial conversion. I won’t divulge the entire list of projects that we came up with yet, but they will all be detailed here at some point ;) We also have a new Instagram account for the bus (which we’ve officially named Steve) that you can follow for more regular updates from Zara [ @abusnamedsteve] ...

So I’ve been back in Ottawa just over two weeks now. I do miss Vancouver but I’ve been able to get a lot done on the bus :) First thing I did was see if she’d start up again. It ran so well on our journey home I was curious to how it held up to the cold. You can see the video here : http://youtu.be/ifp1PGDIlDg After that it was back to the deconstruction. With all the seats removed the next step was to take down the luggage racks. These guys were massive. Two 10 foot pieces of 100% aluminium on each side. With two people it was still a challenge to get them down without hurting the bus or ourselves. We also had to cut them in half to get them outside but it was a fairly quick process. ...

So we parked the bus in it’s new home and started hauling out the insides…. So far the seats are all out and the flooring has started to come up. I’m back in Vancouver now so I won’t be able to do any more work on it but this will give me some good time to start planning out the interior. I also found a video from out trip which I’ll include at the end here: ...

Well, we made it home! From Kenora we headed through Ontario, past Thunder bay and stayed the next night in a little motel in a town with no name :P. In Thunder Bay we ordered some Chinese food and found a beautiful Terry Fox lookout to eat at. We pulled into the parking lot of the lookout and there were literally 9 police cars parked there. We still don’t know what they we’re doing but they surely weren’t doing anything useful… ...