Kinkos is ready to hire the eBUS live crew full time. Well not really, but after we spent a few hours there you can understand why. We were walking around behind the counters and operating programs on their machines. I’m not trying to say they don’t know what they are doing, but it took about five Kinko employees plus our help to get the banner to print correctly. We were having all sorts of issues with color matching, random artifacts and other things. We got it done though and they are currently laminating it so its nice and glossy. Look for it at our stand when you come say hi, we’ll be there tomorrow at 4 until 10 on the 4th of July. (112th and Meridian in South Hill Puyallup, WA)

-Carson

What a day. It was a beautiful one here in Graham, WA and we used it wisely. Instead of spending the day on the bus, such as constructing a beautiful set of bunk beds, we decided to make some money. We had already turned down an opportunity to work a couple days with Cornerstone (a construction company run by Carson’s buddies Luke and Sam) and were questioning if that was the right decision. You see, due to the fact that it cost around a grand in gas to get up here from L.A., this was our dilemma. Then early in the morning Debbie, my step mom, offered to pay us to move some furniture for her sister. Right away we realized that this was an easier way to make the same amount of money then doing construction work. Oh…I forgot to mention…we have to use our bus to move it!! Yet another chance for Alice to show off her versatility.

So what we thought would be easier, ended up being the most intense moving session either of us had ever done! We had to move the heaviest furniture ever made! For example, one of the couched weighed at least 1000 lbs and flex under its own weight when we picked it up. But it paid very well and heading to the bank will make it all worth it.

Today was also a day that Alice got to go back to her roots when we picked up Autunm, my step sister, from her basketball practice at my alma mater Bethel High School. Tears of joy were shed from her radiator. It was a good day.

Hello Graham, Washington! Well, it took us three days to get to the half way point and about eight hours to do the rest. We spent most of the morning insulating the fuel lines and letting the outside temperature cool down. After we finished, we headed for Redding and again started having the same problems we were having before. We just couldn’t get any power going up hill and the engine kept cutting out.

In Redding, we actually got a mechanic to look at her. He looked all around but in the end, was no help at all. So Carson and I decided the next step was to replace the fuel pump. We went to the local auto parts store and as we asked he guy for a pump and explained to him the problems we were having. After hearing what we had, he told us to go back to our bus and check the distributor cap. So, reluctantly, we did. But once Carson got it off, he immediately saw the problem. There was corrosion, broken pieces and melted plastic. Finally, we found something that was wrong!

After we replaced the part, we headed for the mountains and had dinner at Lake Shasta, drinking what else, Shasta Cola . Then with the problem fixed, and upgrading to supreme gasoline, Carson settled in for the long drive through Oregon and Washington. Like a champion, he started driving around 8 pm and didn’t stop except to refuel until we got to my house in Graham around 7 am.
It was a long and tiresome trip, now it time to make some things happen.

-luke

Hey, Luke here and it’s day two of our journey north. Yesterday, we took a few back roads through the middle of nowhere to get to the five (I-5 for those not from California). You see, Alice (our bus) doesn’t really do hills and the grapevine coming out of LA is pretty brutal. We ended up staying the night at a truck stop somewhere in mid Cali and found out just how hot the temperature in our bus gets when it’s 100 degrees out.

We started having some engine problems around Woodland and ended up pulling off to talk to a mechanic. We also ran into fellow Pepperdine grad Emily Miller at the local Wal-Mart! After many trips to several different auto parts stores we decided to replace the fuel filters. Then, after a few miles down the road we realized that the filters were not the problem. So around 11 pm we stopped at the most glorious Wal-Mart we have ever seen to stay the night.

Our plan is to insulate the fuel lines in the morning and get back on the road. Hopefully it works!

-luke

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We finally got the bus back today. It only had to sit at the shop for about a week and half to get about 8 hours of work done, but oh well we have it now. It cost a ridiculous amount of money to fix just the power steering and the carb, but it should be all good and ready for adventures. We cleaned it out today and preped it to lay the carpet tomorrow morning. I’m sure we have a lot of work ahead of us, but the bus will be amazing before you know it. We are headed up to washington as soon as possible, but we have to get the carpet in before we can put our stuff in. That’s it for now, but I’m sure you will hear all about the conversion proccess. There will be lots of pics of the whole ordeal coming too, check the media section for those. Later.

-Carson

Grrrrrrr, when will we get our bus back!

It’s been a while since our last post but not a lot has happened. We have been keeping the bus at my mom’s work lot and working on it during the days. Carson and I took all of the seats out and found some carpet for a steal at the Home Depot. We decided to get the engine looked at because the carburetor was still acting up and Carson thought the transmission might be slipping. Luckily it wasn’t, but we did get the carburetor fixed along with the power steering, which we didn’t know about.

We are currently waiting to get it back from the shop…they are extremely slow and keep pushing back the date. We have to leave soon so I hope we get it back tomorrow.

The last week and a half have been unproductive but fun. Pete and I spent some time up at UCSB. Shout out to πr² for the incredible hospitality! 80’s night and Prom rocked!

Anyway, hope we get it back tomorrow.

-Luke

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