• Check out our most recent skoolie tour, shot while we are parked for the holidays in snowy Montana, and see Oliver decked out for Christmas! | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
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    Skoolie Tour: Christmas Edition

    Welcome to our most recent skoolie tour for Van Life is Awesome! We were asked to do a tour and decided it was the perfect time to showcase what the bus looks like when it’s stationary. We are currently parked in Montana for the holidays with our family, totally winterized for our time here. That means covered in snow, plastic over the windows, plugged in, and hunkered down for the single-digit temps we’ve been hitting at night. It also means Oliver is decorated for Christmas! You can find links to everything featured in our bus through our Amazon Shopping Lists. If you’d like to see our floor plan after watching,…

  • We've rounded up our top five favorite skoolie bathrooms! Check out our picks for the best bathroom designs and layouts within the skoolie community! | sincewewokeup.com | Since We Woke Up
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    Our Favorite Skoolie Bathrooms

    Today, we’re counting down five of our absolute favorite skoolie bathrooms! While we’re pretty fond of our own wetroom-styled bathroom, and the layout in our little home on wheels, there are some pretty awesome skoolie bathrooms within the skoolie community. Today, we’d like to give credit where it’s due and feature five of our absolute favorite skoolie bathrooms from fellow nomads. Without further ado – our top five favorite skoolie bathrooms! HAPPY HOMEBODIES Francesca and Nicholas aren’t just super cool people – they have a super cool bus with a killer bathroom. They opted for a split bathroom, with the toilet and sink on one side and the shower on…

  • People are always curious about bus life. These are some of the more ridiculous questions we've been asked about bus life. | Since We Woke Up | sincewewokeup.com
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    Bus Life: The Most Ridiculous Questions We’ve Been Asked

    Bus life – people are always curious about it, and we field questions regularly about our lifestyle. Two weeks ago, Tiny Home Tours did a YouTube tour of our bus on their channel. Yesterday, our story was featured on The Daily Mail, and then picked up by The Sun. Minus the ridiculous headline {a gross misuse of a quote in the article}, it was pretty cool. And we were so pumped and honored and grateful. Until I made a rookie mistake and looked at the comments. Sweet Jesus, you should never, ever look at the comments. Comment after comment of the most hateful diatribes I’ve ever seen. Insults about everything…