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Our new favourite place to hang out. Bronte the bus has become a great place for reading books, drawing pictures and playing games. Occasionally @keiranlusk kicks everyone out so that

Posted on October 21, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Our new favourite place to hang out. Bronte the bus has become a great place for reading books, drawing pictures and playing games. Occasionally @keiranlusk kicks everyone out so that he can use power tools in there!

#busconversion #buslife #bus #tinyhouse #skoolie #skoolieconversion #vanlife #offgrid #busbuild #rvlife #busnut #busrollwithit #livesmaller #nomad #happycamper #wander #wanderlust #homeiswhereyouparkit #ontheroad

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Bus Conversion

Choosing #buslife

Posted on October 18, 2017October 18, 2017 by Sam Proudley

18
Oct

A big hello to our new followers! Thank you for getting behind our bus adventure… it is really lovely to know so many people are cheering us on! 😊 I thought I’d share a little about us and our motivation for choosing #buslife. We are Keiran, Sam (that’s me!), Ellery (six) and Aubrey (three). We used to live on a remote Cape on a national park island. Nature immersion and a good work-life balance were our normal. We did that for five years. 18 months ago we found ourselves transplanted to the city, struggling to keep our heads above the waterline with our first mortgage, a single income and two small people. They say it often takes extreme discomfort in your world to create change… well this is us! Life became quite hard, with little of the joy we once had in plenty. This is a big part of our why. We aim to create more time for us, less work (and a better split between K and I of the paid work and parenting), and more horizon in our days! ☀ We’re kind of making it up as we go along <though one half of us has built a home in a bus before 😁>. There are lots of unknowns (possibilities!) but it feels so good to be carving out change of our own making. Thanks for following along. 💜

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Happy Monday and a big hello to our new followers! Thank you for getting behind our bus adventure… it is really lovely to know so many people are cheering us

Posted on October 15, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

15
Oct

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Happy Monday and a big hello to our new followers! Thank you for getting behind our bus adventure… it is really lovely to know so many people are cheering us on! I thought I’d share a little about us and our motivation for choosing #buslife. We are Keiran, Sam (that’s me!), Ellery (six) and Aubrey (three). We used to live on a remote Cape on a national park island. Nature immersion and a good work-life balance were our normal. We did that for five years. 18 months ago we found ourselves transplanted to the city, struggling to keep our heads above the waterline with our first mortgage, a single income and two small people. They say it often takes extreme discomfort in your world to create change… well this is us! Life became quite hard, with little of the joy we once had in plenty. This is a big part of our why. We aim to create more time for us, less work (and a better split between K and I of the paid work and parenting), and more horizon in our days! We’re kind of making it up as we go along . There are lots of unknowns (possibilities!) but it feels so good to be carving out change of our own making. Thanks for following along.

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We’re just about to start our bus conversion project! We chose our bus for its good headroom, top windows that open, underfloor luggage bins, a good engine and a clean

Posted on October 15, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Oct

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We’re just about to start our bus conversion project! We chose our bus for its good headroom, top windows that open, underfloor luggage bins, a good engine and a clean body. This bus ticked all the boxes for us!

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Our family. Before bus life, we lived at a remote windswept lighthouse on an island off the coast of Queensland. Keiran was a park ranger and the unofficial caretaker of

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Oct

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Our family. Before bus life, we lived at a remote windswept lighthouse on an island off the coast of Queensland. Keiran was a park ranger and the unofficial caretaker of the heritage listed lighthouse precinct for five years. Our boys spent their days exploring the island, playing on wild and deserted beaches, and watching for whales from the lighthouse cliffs. It was a wonderful experience for our kids. After five years at the lighthouse, we found ourselves living back in the city. But we all missed the wide open space, the freedom and the strong connection with nature. We dreamed and planned. And eighteen months later, have just bought a bus! We seek to build upon that lighthouse experience with our new plans and can hardly wait to take that leap into the wild again!

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Meet Bronte, our recently purchased 1998 Hino RG230 bus. Over the coming months, we’ll be transforming Bronte into our tiny house on wheels. #busconversion #buslife #bus #tinyhouse #skoolie #skoolieconversion #vanlife

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

14
Oct

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Meet Bronte, our recently purchased 1998 Hino RG230 bus. Over the coming months, we’ll be transforming Bronte into our tiny house on wheels.

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Our Bus is 12 metres in length and seats 57 passengers. We will shortly be removing all of the seats and plan to install some coach seats with lap sash

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Oct

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Our Bus is 12 metres in length and seats 57 passengers. We will shortly be removing all of the seats and plan to install some coach seats with lap sash belts for the family.

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Meet Bronte. Our 1998 Hino bus. We’re about to embark upon a project to convert Bronte into our travelling home! #busconversion #buslife #bus #tinyhouse #skoolie #skoolieconversion #vanlife #offgrid #busbuild #rvlife

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Oct

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Meet Bronte. Our 1998 Hino bus. We’re about to embark upon a project to convert Bronte into our travelling home!

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Road trippin’ in Bronte (our beautiful new bus). This was on the 1800km journey back to Queensland last week (we bought the bus from a bus company in Victoria). #busconversion

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Oct

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Road trippin’ in Bronte (our beautiful new bus). This was on the 1800km journey back to Queensland last week (we bought the bus from a bus company in Victoria). #busconversion #buslife #bus #tinyhouse #skoolie #skoolieconversion #vanlife #offgrid #busbuild #rvlife #busnut #busrollwithit #livesmaller #nomad #happycamper #wander #wanderlust #homeiswhereyouparkit #ontheroad #outback

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On the 1800km drive back to Queensland last week. The perfect ‘shake down’ test for our new purchase. The bus performed very well! #busconversion #buslife #bus #tinyhouse #skoolie #skoolieconversion #vanlife

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Oct

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On the 1800km drive back to Queensland last week. The perfect ‘shake down’ test for our new purchase. The bus performed very well!

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The bus specs: 1998 Hino RG230 with PMC Austral Pacific Starliner body. 230hp. 6 speed manual. #busconversion #buslife #bus #tinyhouse #skoolie #skoolieconversion #vanlife #offgrid #busbuild #rvlife #busnut #busrollwithit #livesmaller #nomad

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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The bus specs: 1998 Hino RG230 with PMC Austral Pacific Starliner body. 230hp. 6 speed manual.
#busconversion #buslife #bus #tinyhouse #skoolie #skoolieconversion #vanlife #offgrid #busbuild #rvlife #busnut #busrollwithit #livesmaller #nomad #happycamper #wander #wanderlust #homeiswhereyouparkit #ontheroad

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We bought a bus! I flew down to Victoria ten days ago and picked up our new bus and future house on wheels! Very excited to be embarking on this

Posted on October 14, 2017March 28, 2018 by Tales From The Wild

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Oct

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We bought a bus! I flew down to Victoria ten days ago and picked up our new bus and future house on wheels! Very excited to be embarking on this project!

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Bus Conversion

Meet Bronte the bus!

Posted on October 12, 2017March 28, 2018 by Keiran Lusk

12
Oct

Meet Bronte. Our 1998 Hino bus. We’re about to embark upon a project to convert Bronte into our travelling home! Bronte was a school bus in country Victoria for her entire working life. She has a 230HP turbo 7.9 litre diesel engine with a 6 speed manual. The body is a PMC/Austral Pacific Starliner and is 12 metres in length. Over the coming months, we will be sharing the progress of our bus conversion project via social media and this blog. Stay tuned for updates!

Bus Conversion

We bought a bus!

Posted on October 6, 2017October 18, 2017 by Keiran Lusk

06
Oct

We bought a bus! After months and months of searching for the right bus, we found just what we were looking for in a small country town called Alexandra in Victoria. It’s a 1998 Hino RG230 (230HP turbo, 6 speed manual) with PMC/Austral Pacific Starliner body. It’s 12 metres in length, has hopper windows that open and luggage bins underneath on the nearside. The headroom is approximately 197.5cm (which leaves me with about 2.5cm clearance above my head).

I flew down to Melbourne (from Brisbane) yesterday to pick up our new bus and future house on wheels! It was a long day of travelling with two trains, a plane, a bus, another train and another bus journey required to reach the Fallons bus depot in Alexandra. After a good look over the vehicle, I was very excited to be driving out the front gates in our new bus!

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