WHAT’S A VICARIBUS?
Vicaribus – like vicarious, but with a ‘b’ – was our bus that we lovingly converted into our tiny home on wheels.
Previously we enjoyed three years gallivanting around the country exploring all of the beautiful places and meeting all of you beautiful people. We shared as much of it as we could here so you, too, can vicariously live the bus life.
We sold the bus in March 2022 and now live in an Airstream but are doing the same things.
WHO ARE THE PASSENGERS?
We are three people – one of whom happens to technically be a dog – who have decided to get rid of all of our stuff, put working on hold (mostly), and to get out and live a little.
For more info about Heather, Nick and Miles, head over to the About Vicaribus and the Passengers Page.
WHERE HAVE WE BEEN?
So far we have traveled through New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, and then straight over to Florida, then straight up to Michigan, then straight down to North Carolina with a repair layover in Tennessee, and then straight up to Maine and over to New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, down to Virginia then Florida, over through Texas to Colorado, then back to Florida, then back to Arizona!
HOW CAN YOU FOLLOW ALONG?
We post all the pretty things on Instagram. We (used to) create little vignettes of bus life for our YouTube Channel. We share it all on Facebook. We (used to) share a bunch of data we collect on our Live Data page. And, we (used to) write all about it on our blog, which you can subscribe to right here!
WHAT HAVE WE SEEN?
You can see all of our photos on our Photo Galleries page and all of our videos on our Video Gallery page.
Here are our most recent photo galleries to get you started.
OUR LATEST UPDATES AND POSTS
Our Vicaribupdates recount our recent travels, while other posts share some of our tips, favorites and more.
Bus Conversion: How we fit a living room, dining room, office, guest bed and storage in 20 square feet.
Designing a bus is a lot of work, and one of the hardest parts is deciding which things actually get to the fit in the bus, which parts of the build get precious inches added to or subtracted from them, and which things get eliminated all together. It's all about making the most of the space, and squeezing out every last drop of functionality. Being that we are all about comfort and lounging, we knew that [...]
Searching: a (trailer for a) film by the Passengers
A while back the Passengers (sans Miles) went to Iceland to film a story about a T-Rex searching for... well, searching for something that you can't know about yet. We are proud to release the trailer for that film now. Enjoy. If you would like to receive email updates for the Vicaribus build, click here to subscribe! [jetpack_subscription_form title="Subscribe to Vicaribus for some excellent email updates!" subscribe_button="Subscribe Now!"] [...]
Bus Conversion: Kitchens, Bathrooms and Miscellaneous
It seems we are due an update. As these things go - in this case blogging the conversion - the momentum has waned, but fear not, the conversion itself carries on as strong as ever. Since we last spoke, a lot has happened. The kitchen is pretty darn far along, as is the bathroom. These will be the focus of this post, but do note that since the last update, there have been other ancillary bits [...]
Excursion 3: Total solar eclipse of my heart
I'm fairly certain this is excursion three. The first was definitely Pikes Peak, documented here. The second would have been Twin Lakes - undocumented, but mostly consisting of overheating on he side of the mountain roads, and lakes. This time around we took Vicaribus up to Nebraska for some eclipse chasing. Our base of operations was a fantastic gem of a lake called Lake McConaughy, commonly referred to as Lake Mac. What a find that was. [...]
Bus Conversion: How to make an awesome kitchen countertop from a door
We spent a lot of time trying to decide what to do for our kitchen counter top. There were two primary requirements - it needed to be light and it needed to be durable - and for a bonus we were hoping it would be cheap! Once you start talking about light weight, you pretty much eliminate all stone countertop choices and durable takes away glass, ceramic. I’m no expert, but this pretty much left us [...]
Bus Conversion: Power Up
We spent over half of our initial budget on a top of the line power system from Victron Energy. And by we, I mean I. You know what they say about initial budgets anyway, "It's like that unicorn you thought you saw.. turns out some guy just glued a horn to his pony. Never gonna happen." One of my favorite sayings. So, why did I go all out on the power system? I'm a hardware hacker. [...]