Linus the Land Yacht: Episode 1 – Series Introduction
First of all I wanted to say thanks for all the support. All of your wonderful comments have motivated me to stay on top of the edits and put out the entire series of videos documenting the build. Your support has not only kept me motivated to build and document this laborious process, but also to keep editing them with plans to set them adrift in the world wide sea of viewers like you!
I’m happy to announce that construction on Linus the Land Yacht is finally complete. And later today, I will be starting my release of the Linus the Land Yacht series. So far it includes 30 episodes breaking down every secion of the build. So everything from battery banks and electrical wiring, to water pumps, to composting toilets, to on-demand hot water shower. Everything you can think of that goes into tiny homes.
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Series Introduction
Intro Video
Linus the Land Yacht Intro Video
Greetings, and welcome to the new Travel Geek project. Linus the Land Yacht is a project ten years in the making. Well, I only started building it this year, but I’ve been drawing up various plans to build different versions over the last decade (give or take a few months).
To clarify for later blog posts, I am calling this project a “tiny house.” or I may refer to it as a bus-house (as coined by my amazing amiga, Jennifer Bajit (confidant and big bus build supporter).
I am doing this because the definition of a tiny house is currently a little fluid, and ultimately malleable to the description of the builder. Some are built on a trailer, some inside a shipping container, some up in trees, and, yes, some inside of a bus which was previously used for a different purpose.
In this case, Linus is an ex-shuttlebus. Other bus-houses are made from decommissioned school buses (called Schoolies), some from box trucks (Boxies, perhaps?), some even from vans (most often represented by the hashtag #VanLife).
My first vision for the bus-house was actually from a bread truck (or perhaps a UPS truck). It included much of the same items that are currently in this one. But it had some interesting additives. For instance, the first version had a biodiesel processor, an ethanol fueled baseboard clay heater, a wood fired n-demand water heater, and of course a garage to keep my little scooter.
This version has… well, perhaps I should let you watch for yourself.
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