Meet Melanie Moore—a real-life hero who uses her VW crew cab to deliver sell and deliver books. Known as The Cincy Book Bus, she is a recognized figure in the Queen City. Best of all, all the profits she makes go directly to child literacy efforts.
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Podcast: Brett
Now this bus is one wild ride. A 1958 panel van. The outside has been spray painted and airbrushed with murals. The once solid walls have portal windows and the wheel wells have been cut out. The front of the bus has a giant pair of steer horns. But the real stories reside with Brett—anContinue reading “Podcast: Brett”
Podcast: Bo & Susanna
This season starts in the Finger Lakes of New York—the land of wine and waterfalls where Ryan and I took our bus, Adie for a long weekend. We met a couple, Bo and Susanna, who lived in a VW bus in Germany many years ago. And they have stories…
Indiana / Michigan Round Up
Our final shakedown trip took us to what some call America’s third coast—the Great Lakes. Specifically, we drove the coast of Lake Michigan, trolling the beaches, talking with locals, camping, and, of course, sampling the wines. Here are some of the highlights:
Podcast: Season 2
Buckle up, folks! This season we have expanded our horizons—interviewing folks from Michigan to the Finger Lakes in New York. We are serving up ten new episodes that include entrepreneurs, artists, champions of the community, and bold adventurers.
Privilege, luck, and work ethic
It’s really telling that the question of money is the very first thing to pop into folks’ minds when we tell them we are about to hit the road for 14 months. We have all of the United States rolled out in front of us like a wall-to-wall rug, the far reaches of Canada inContinue reading “Privilege, luck, and work ethic”
Podcast: Selwa
We interviewed Selwa Whitesell of Yellow Springs. Currently she has a modern tow-behind camper sitting in her driveway. She has biked in New Zealand, camped all over. But her first camper was an unusual VW Bus she owned when she was just sixteen, married, and pregnant.
We were on the radio!
A couple weeks ago I posted in a VW Facebook group about our podcast, “So You Owned a VW Bus.” I asked folks if they had stories and if they would be open to sharing them. We instantly got lots of responses. But more than stories, we received messages of support, offers to stay inContinue reading “We were on the radio!”
Podcast: Dan & Kathy
On the first decent spring day of 2021, Miracle and I donned our masks and drove out to Yellow Springs, the nearby hippie village at the north end of the county where we live—Greene County. Now, Greene County is a bit of misnomer—by and large the county is deep red with nearly every elected seatContinue reading “Podcast: Dan & Kathy”
Podcast: Jen
Every owner of a bus knows what it is like to break down on the side of the road. That moment of panic. The frustration. How their partner immediately gets stressed… Well, we met a woman, Jen Hunter who uses her moments of stasis to keep moving forward. Jen is an artist and we metContinue reading “Podcast: Jen”