First we bought a bus....

This blog is about Zach, and myself (Jessica) and our dreams of converting a short school bus into a waste vegetable oil camper in which we plan to travel the country. It's about our adventures, and perhaps misadventures, and all of our wonderful friends and family who definitely think we're crazy, but who are all still pitching in to help us realize our dreams.

After a 3 hour drive to a salvage yard in New Jersey, and then another 3 hours of wandering around a school bus graveyard with Jose, a whole lot of broken spanish, and a little bit of haggling, we had finally found our bus! It's a four window, 20 person capacity, Ford Power Stroke Diesel, although it is soon to become a veggie oil conversion. There was a brief moment of panic halfway back to Saratoga Springs when we discovered the child safety feature installed to make sure that the bus driver will walk to the back of the bus once the engine is shut off, check every seat for sleeping children, and press the trip button for the alarm at the back of the bus. Since we were unaware of this alarm system, Zach and I had to instead take turns sitting in the bus with the key in the ignition while the other went into the rest stop because each time we took the key out, we were horrified by the flashing lights and beeping that ensued about 40 seconds afterwards. We finally just opened the fuse box and ripped the alarm right out. Problem solved. The trip button at the back of the bus was conveniently pointed out to us the next day by a friend.