Project HouseBus : Beginning

We’re lucky—in our sixties, Michelle and I don’t have a mortgage. Unfortunately, we also don’t have a house. As you can imagine, at our age, with today’s crazy housing prices, buying one isn’t really an option.

We had resigned ourselves to renting for the rest of our lives, but then we started thinking: What can we do to lower our cost of living as we head toward retirement? And, at some point in the future, how can we create a “lock-up-and-leave” lifestyle so we can travel?

That’s when the idea of a HouseBus was born.

We’re not entirely new to life on the road, but our experience is somewhat limited. A few years ago, we spent most of a year traveling Europe in a Ford Transit van that we converted ourselves. (I might write more about that here another time, but not today!)

Anyway, we knew we needed something bigger—so last weekend, we bought a bus to convert!

This blog will document our journey, and hopefully, it will be of interest to more people than just me. 🙂