Make no mistake: the bus is effectively done, in terms of construction. We’d already be well on our way into the South if it weren’t for one technical glitch with the veggie system ( I don’t totally understand it, but which John assures me it’s easily fixable) and the DMV. John and others have been to the DMV twice so far, and each time they’ve rejected the bus for registration as an RV based on increasingly weird regulations they didn’t think to mention the first time around. So to make them happy, we’ve had to:
- Paint over as much of the remaining school bus yellow as we could, so that we couldn’t accidentally kidnap any children who mistook our giant hippie bus for their ride to school and hopped on board at a stop sign.
- Install a space heater, to keep us comfortable through those frigid summer nights in Texas.
- Install a refrigerator.
- Remove the veggie system.
That’s right: apparently the veggie system can’t be in the passenger compartment. And since the bus is pretty much all passenger compartment, that means that it can’t be in there at all. Once the bus is registered as an RV, of course, the veggie system gets bolted back in and the fridge and space heater get promptly unbolted.
Ned, I’m not sure you’re taking the arctic temperatures of Texas seriously enough!