• The Little House on the HWY is the skoolie that has it all - including a front yard! Check it out in this week's Feature Friday. | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
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    Little House on the HWY: Skoolie Feature Friday

    Today’s Feature Friday – Little House on the HWY! What is skoolie life all about, anyway? In our minds, we chose skoolie life to break away from the societal expectations of success and the “right” way to live. For us, we appreciate the essence of skoolie life – freedom from debt, freedom to travel whenever we please, and freedom from being anchored down. Basically, we love the idea that home is wherever we decide to park Oliver for the day, week, or month. Sometimes, however, it can be easy to get caught up in the day to day minutia of life. Most of us aren’t blessed with an endless bank…

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    Skoolie Feature Friday: Painted Buffalo Traveling Studio

    Today’s Feature Friday – Painted Buffalo Traveling Studio! People often assume (albeit, correctly) that you have to be a bit touched in the head to break away from societal norms and move your entire life into a retired school bus. While the romantics of living in a school bus full-time (fewer bills, more freedom, travel, etc.) are often what draw people into this lifestyle, there is a hidden gem one finds upon diving headfirst into the skoolie community. For us, the best part of the skoolie community is that it connects you with some of the most fantastically amazing people you could ever wish to find. Some take their newfound…

  • We installed faux wall panels over our skoolie's front windows that slide in and out and insulate our windows. Here's how we designed them! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
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    How We Installed Faux Wall Panels on Our Skoolie’s Front Windows

    Today we’re doing a tutorial on a question we get asked a lot – how did you make faux wall panels over your front windows? Insulating a bus is a must if you want to comfortably live in it. However, every window you leave is a spot heat can enter or leave. Especially those big front windows all skoolies have! In order to combat the heat beating in and baking us in summer or losing all elements of it in the winter, we designed a set of faux wall panels that easily slide in and out. If we’re parked for an extended period of time, we simply leave them in…

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