so we stopped tonight to talk to the guy who parked his bus at the end of the road to stay for a few days...

a hippie guy with long greyish hair and wire rimmed rounded glasses, his name is jess and he is traveling with his two sons in a large school bus with a VW van hoisted and resting on the roof. the van is his sons room and the middle of the bus is partitioned into 4 spaces... the living area, the kitchen, his room and a back study type place. there is a hole in the roof of the bus leading up the boys micro bus room. the van/bus is painted sky blue with a huge yellow sun on the sides and clouds up around the top. the back of the bus says "solstice" and he has a yellow "support our troops" ribbon magnet stamped to the back of the bus. he homeschools his sons so they can travel and he has been living in the bus on the road for about a year now. he told me it cost about 5,000.00 to get the bus running and to get it all together with the van on the roof.

with all the money i have spent on my van, i could have had a bus-van by now...

it was awesome to talk with him and his sons were cool kids too. he says he loves traveling in the old school bus and he feels like he has crossed some sort of a culteral gap becuase people of all kinds stop and talk with him about his bus and smile at him as he drives by.

im jealouse of him and his travels in the "solstice". i WILL live out of my vehicle some day and simply drive around with no where in particular to go. just park it on the side of the road and chill sometime... im jealouse of them and their travels in the "soltice"... but im also really happy that they have free enough spirits to do something like that...

peace...