Years ago…circa 1977, I was living in Seattle, Washington and was invited to a party in Issaquaw. Way up in the hills was this mid-size house…very attractive. We had a beer blast going outside and I suddenly had to go to the bathroom…#2…not a piss. So, I went inside the place and asked to use their bathroom.

The wife pointed me to the bathroom and I headed off towards it, admiring the rather eccentric design of the interior of the house as I walked through the place. Got to the bathroom and noticed the door was a airliner bathroom door. Inside was your typical bathroom except for a few rather odd things…the towel rack was a steering wheel, and the window was your typical bus window…finally it dawned on me I was in the cab of a bus.

When I finished my business, I made mention of how surprised I was about their bathroom and the wife sat me down on their sofa in the living room and opened up a photo album….

Their “house” was basically two large school buses driven onto a ramp, both in opposite directions, onto steel “I” beams over a cement foundation. Once in place, the buses were jacked up, the I-beams removed and then let down on two rather large steel supporting beams. Wheels were removed, engines removed (both were converted into an electric generator), and the acetylene torches were sparked up…

The center opposing walls were cut out in an arch shape, the inside was framed up with 2-by-3 studs, wallboard was put up, a roof was framed up and other customizing was done. From the outside (or the inside for that matter) you’d never know it was two buses connected. Really bizare and she claimed they only spent something like $5000.00 U.S. dollars for supplies and construction.

Will never forget that place and have always had it on my mind…perhaps some day when I purchase a small plot of land somewhere…..

Jim