I promised my friend Jon that I would play the Blue Bus song when the bus finally pulled away to start the adventure. As much as I like to be totally spontaneous, I know that a plan must be forged to keep me headed in a direction. In short, the goal is to get to Virginia, visit my sister, and trade building a website for a campground in the town next to her. She lives in a townhouse with no bus parking, so I needed to find parking, and if I'm gonna park my house, I might as well reside in it too.

Here is the Vagabond Bucket List for 2009:
Virginia
Mount Hood, Oregon (Skiing on my Birthday)
Burning Man Festival
Slab City
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

Anything less is great, anything more is expected. I have always wanted to see snow on my birthday, and I am determined this year to do it. Whats better than seeing snow on your birthday in the middle of summer, is going skiing on your birthday.

To find an RV to live in, one must find an RV that one likes...

I did not like the price tag of an RV, nor did I like the layout and design already provided for me. I like an open room. The only logical step was to buy a school bus. ;) After being laughed at by the Insurance Company when I called to question rates for my school bus, not once, but THREE times, I brought my lovely face in there with a title for a school bus that had ALREADY been titled as a camper. I found a group of kids who already stripped, mostly converted, and already drove x-country a 1993 International Blue Bird School Bus 30 minutes from my house.

Meet the Vagabond Skoolie Bus:
The bus has a WVO conversion to run on Waste Vegetable Oil, has solar panels add on top for electrical power, a water management system that will make your mother cringe, and enough room for Misha and I to not bother each other too much.

So yeah, it took me a year to get myself back to a position to be able to update my blog. WOW. Anyways, since it is a new year, I have new ambitions. I decided to keep my doggie and now have the bestest friend a traveler could ever ask for. Misha and I fared pretty well in the Jeep, and we still love driving it anywhere we can..almost literally; but we learned that living in a Jeep with a hammock to sleep on, and a tarp for shelter just didn't work out all that well for the long-haul. We re-convened in Massachusetts for a while, then let the plan take shape. Dad, being a cross-country truck driver for as long as I've known him, limited me to a 17' trailer, so I decided to one-up him, and go for a RV. I spent about a years worth of time riding in his truck when I was younger, and loved shouting 'WINNNNEBAAAAAAAAGOOOOOOOO" everytime we passed an RV, so it only felt like a natural step.