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Transforming a bus into a home is quite an undertaking. Find here all vehicle-related stories, videos, and photographs, made especially for the mechanically minded.
16 Jun
We’re almost there guys. The interior is in down to the moldings, we begin staining and varnishing tomorrow and it might have been the heat, but I swear I saw Tom staring blankly at some plumbing earlier. The progress has come on quick these last few weeks, despite the intense ..read more
18 May
Its getting hot down here in Miami and the hotter it gets, the slower our progress becomes. Early morning starts are now almost impossible without cloud cover and even with all the windows open, the breeze from across the railway tracks amounts to little more than a fart in hell. ..read more
05 Mar
We’ve had a busy month of prep work getting everything ready for the interior, but happily we’re just about to begin laying the floor.
Some amazing donations of equipment for the plumbing system and veggie conversion have come our way (especially from WVO Designs), but finding sponsors for materials and appliances ..read more
11 Feb
Please take the time to check out this awesome cyber exhibit – documentation of our new bus by budding young photographer and Mateo’s best friend, 4 and a half year old Kai Prol.
We are honored that this charming feature on Childhood Magic, a Miami based homeschooling blog, is not only ..read more
10 Feb
Here follows an account of the retrieval and transportation of *as yet unnamed bus* indirectly from Springdale, Arkansas to Miami, Florida. Due to the regrettable length of this ultimately successful and rewarding experience and the many expound worthy moments therein I will break down the entire excursion from pre-departure to ..read more
07 Jul
Part one of our semi-infrequent series on the mechanics of the bus:
THE EVOLUTION OF HOT WATER
When we started on the road, I installed a pretty sweet heat exchanger that we used as a water heater. It was something I got from my Father-in-law’s boat salvage yard (aka backyard) and ..read more
19 Apr
How to fix Your Macbook G4 Power Cord with a Tampon
24 Feb
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This is a 3 min video from the archives. It depicts our first radio broadcast using our own transmitter in November in San Francisco.
01 Jun
Once Transit Antenna made it to San Antonio, my hometown, Joe and I left the RV in the care of my parents and moved on board the bus with Seth, Jamie, Bob, Dawn, and Taylor. The team had reached a turning point in which we acknowledged that our future together ..read more
07 Mar
“…this love of the land.” –Gerald O’Hara, Gone with the Wind
In Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War saga, Gone with the Wind, the indomitable Scarlett O’Hara learns what daddy meant about loving the land–with soiled fingernails and tattered dress, she protects the plantation Tara, the last vestige of her confederate legacy, against ..read more
09 Feb
(Dawn, Taylor, Seth and I look at our very first solar panel, constructed by Taylor for a third-grade project.)
Hey Folks,
You will be excited to know that the smell of fries fills the air as Walter runs on vegetable oil. Yes, folks. The system works! Now we’re back ..read more
31 Dec
Happy New Year From Transit Antenna!
Well folks, it’s the end of a New Year, and we from Transit Antenna wish you the best in 2008. We’ve been busy building the walls, bathroom, bedrooms, cabinets, and drawers on our bus, getting ready for the fund raiser, music events, and launch party ..read more
29 Nov
This episode features the diesel mechanic and RV expert Joseph Knecht from Hicksville, Ohio. It includes a brief account of his life story, and briefly shows what it was like living and working on the bus with Joseph from day to day.
Also included is a preview for an upcoming project.
Actual ..read more
15 Nov
It’s getting chilly in Charleston. Nothing like Boston and New Haven where we’ve been living for the past two years, but imagine being in forty degree weather for eight hours or more, moving slowly down the side of the bus, scraping layers of colored vinyl strips over two decades old ..read more
25 Oct
Just a brief Transit update:
Yesterday at 4:00 a.m. Bob got pulled over in the Seth’s parents’ Trailblazer, no wallet, no license, no cell phone, and looking like he very well could have been up to no good:
They pulled him over because he was “leaving the Redux parking lot at ..read more
20 Sep
Bob and I took Walter on our first major trip this summer. During the month of July, we traveled over 1500 miles from Bear, Delaware, to Hicksville, Ohio, and then south to Charleston, SC. Our first objective was to get the bus to Hicksville, where Joe Kristofoletti, diesel mechanic, would ..read more
10 Jul
We’ve had quite an educational week. We tried getting temporary tags for the bus and spend two solid days running around to several DMV’s. First we went to the Delaware DMV, because the bus was actually stored in Delaware for the past two months. They informed us that ..read more
16 Jun
We’re really good at starting vehicles- finding the keys, then locating the ignition, putting the key in, and turning. We’re good at that. We’re also really good at knowing when the check engine light is on. Our abilities at filling the gas tanks of any number of vehicles ..read more
28 May
We managed to contact a repo-man, by the name of Animal, in PA who was willing to sell us a city transit bus at a very reasonable price. This is a clip of us following Animal in his Hurst as he leads us to our first look at our new ..read more
23 May
We decided to name the bus “Walter” in memory of Seth’s grandfather, Walter Alexander, who drove a bus for Trail Ways. Walter retired from Trail Ways only after surpassing the three-million mile mark.
We chose Walter not only for dedicating his life to the road, but also for dedicating himself ..read more
22 May
Bob is driving the bus for the first time. We bought the bus in Frazier, PA and we need to get some gas before taking it to Delaware for temporary storage at Bob Sr.’s. It was actually the first time Bob had spoken to his dad in two years, so ..read more