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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