I titled this section the “in between” because we weren’t still living in our house, but we weren’t really traveling yet. We parked the Busse Bus at Fish Beach Campground on April 26th and weren’t scheduled to depart until May 19th at the earliest. The three week delay was due Read more…
Good friends of ours have been raving about a great little hole in the wall that serves a mean breakfast for the past couple of years. Since our days in Illinois were whittling down it was now or never to test their taste in food and validate their claim. Vinny Read more…
That is the question. What else is there to do at night when you’re on the road? Campfire? S’mores, Dog walking? Meeting the fellow campers? Swatting mosquitoes? But, who wins American Idol? The Voice? Can I answer the final Jeopardy question? Hard decision – but we decided that being able Read more…
A good group of our friends decided to throw us a Farewell Party. Now these are people that we have known for decades. Travelled together, attended children’s graduations, attended each other’s parents funerals, etc. Good friends that you don’t find everywhere or often. Parties over the years have had Read more…
I didn’t know it at the time, but I apparently put myself on a diet from mid January to the end of April. It was unintentional, but none the less I lost 15 pounds during the process of selling our house and getting into the Busse Bus. You see when Read more…
Closing on our house is all set for noon on April 27th. I expect a call from our attorney by 12:30 knowing that the buyers would try to negotiate concessions rendering a lower price. I was wrong, the call came in at 12:15. Buyers inquired about foyer tiles as three Read more…
Once we decided on which of our belongings to keep for the longer term we needed a storage unit with the right size and cost. Until you get everything together it is very hard to determine the exact size of storage unit you will need. You will also need one Read more…
It’s amazing the amount the treasured junk that you can accumulate in a 8,000 square foot house that you live in with two kids for 15 years. The Busse Bus is about 700 square feet, so obviously we needed to make some decisions on what to pack, what to keep Read more…
On April 2nd, 2018 Matt Anderson proposed to our little girl, Ariana at her favorite vineyard in Napa – Medlock Ames. She said yes. Since he didn’t ask her on April Fool’s Day I know it was legit. Now Matt and Ariana have known each other for about ten years Read more…
I arrived home with the Busse Bus on March 28th and parked it in front of our house. All we needed to do now was close on the house, have a estate sale, sell two cars, decide on what belongings to keep and store them, get updated driver’s licenses, outfit Read more…