Intrepid travelers are customizing vintage VW buses to serve a mobile houses. Would you consider life on the road in a Volkswagen bus? If so, you can actually purchase the bus in the first photo. If that seems a little hasty, you could just rent a VW bus outfitted with all the essentials...
Vintage Safari Rentals, will let you rent a VW camper from their Los Angeles location and go can go wherever the wind takes you! (You can even do a one-way Los Angeles to San Francisco rental!)
And that bus for sale? It's being sold by Pat and Ali Schulte, who have used the bus to travel around North America and Europe. They live in the U.K. and are selling the bus for £15,000. If you live anywhere in the U.K., they'll deliver it for free! Before you pack your bags, read about the ups and downs of living in the VW bus on the tiny house blog.
• 1 the bumfuzzle bus, for sale in the U.K. via tiny house blog
• 2 from love my bus via tiny house blog
• 3 - 5 vw safari
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Comments (6)
This is my retirement dream!
The best camper, in my opinion.
It is my dream to be able to have a small home here in New England then travel around the world road trip style. I don't know if I could do it full time, but I'd spend a summer traveling around in a VW bus in a heartbeat.
This is my dream *now*, much less retirement.
It is my dream to be able to have a small home here in New England then travel around the world road trip style. I don't know if I could do it full time, but I'd spend a summer traveling around in a VW bus in a heartbeat. I'd turn that thing into a bus to New York, for sure.
Dang nab it. It always seems to be for sale 'in the UK' or w/the Micro Compact House: EU only. I certainly could and would happily pack up in the VW and hit the road; sadly I'm economically in the boo-hoo enough to consider selling most all off for a "common & boring / smaller RV' - no fun VW, no snazzy vintage home on wheels. But I feel like I need to scram my current geolocation and wend my way round North America at minimum -or ditch somehow for EU entirely!
That said? If you've a maid's room w/ internet (so I can still keep my dayjob - I can do that from anywhere!) in France or maybe a carved bit of a Southern Spain cave home (fancy aren't I?), I am a jack of all trades, yearning to seek my way out of America and onto other shores! With great references!
Hmmm... When I say 'jack (Jill really) of all trades', I actually mean intelligent but lacking utterly in skills beyond running a shop, basic hammering nails or tending farm animals: all of which has dried up hereabouts! But I do still have a job, so what's this all about? Desperate for some new culture, bread and coffee? Oh yes. Yes I am.
And of course if you are, let's say ... (sound example:) mr. Sami Rintala, seeking a human subject to use (I'm a lover of small spaces) to test your ladders out (up to the sleeping level) for the moderately handicapped and so on, please let me know. Dream job if there ever was one!
Uhm, running on some massive insomnia here, can you tell- I'll try to limit my comments tonight out of love for all humanity!