Little Miss Skoolie
Little Miss Skoolie, alias Sunny the Bus.
She’s a small bus. A mini. A shortie. Alias: Sunny the Bus. My wife and I liked the Little Miss Sunshine movie so much, we actually named our first-born pupper after Olive. So, naturally, while it’s not a VW Bus (I think I’m longer than a VW Bus anyway), we went along with a Little Miss, uh, Little Miss Skoolie theme.
No, we’re not that crazy to paint it yellow with a white top, as this is illegal in most of our united states, but we just liked the whole vibe of the underdog rising up and busting through the whole ‘being normal’ thing. We are, after all, far from normal. Eclectically quirky, let’s say.
We wouldn’t have it any other way.
The particulars for the geeks (myself included):
Sunny is a 2005 GMC Savanna 3500 Dually with a Corbeil coach (that’s the bus part), 5-window, with a 6.0-liter, gas-powered V8, with an automatic transmission that’s only gone 99k miles in her 17 years. We found her locally in Putnam, CT, and bought her from a fella who worked for, and bought her from, a local prep school, Marianapolis, in Northeastern Connecticut. So when you board, please wear a tie or something argyle.
We found a great new watering hole
Back in the heady days of sprint-distance triathlon training (hopefully we’ll have more heady days), sometimes it got a little difficult to keep up with the training and keep out of the burnout shed. Somewhere along the line, either from a blog or a book, someone suggested that when deep in those near-burnout feelings, sometimes buying a new little gadget or toy helps reignite the energy
Top 6 reasons we bought a skoolie
I’ve got a damn bus to build, so let’s not muck about and get right to it… No. 6 – PRICE. Every traditional camper van was approximately $9 million at the height of the times we were looking, on the back half of COVID. Kayaks were impossible to find the year before. We were fans of the RoadTrek brand in the late 90s, but they were
DISCLAIMER: I only think I know what I’m talking about
I got my license in 1989 at 16.5 years old, the youngest possible in the great state of Massachusetts. I bought my first car based on a Creature Double Feature movie called Duel, Stephen Spielberg's first 'Made for TV' movie (side note, I would later 'work' with Spielberg as an extra in Amistad). Anywho, the car was a 1970 Plymouth Valiant. The movie came out in
Brakes only slow you down
Rusty is putting it mildly. So when we test drove Sunny for the first time, she developed a little smoking habit. As we alighted on the test drive, which was a perfect mix of highway and two-lane country road, we were cautiously enthusiastic. Although there were no seats in the bus except the pilot’s, the owner came with us. To me, this was reassuring.
Show me some bus…
The day after we (barely) made it home after buying Little Miss Skoolie, alias Sunny the Bus. She’s a small bus. A mini. A shortie. Alias: Sunny the Bus. My wife and I liked the movie so much, we actually named our first-born pupper after Olive. So, naturally, while it’s not a VW Bus (I think I’m longer than a VW Bus anyway), we
