The Bus
The bus is actually not a bus but more of a "million dollar luxury motorcoach", as some people call it.
It has everything a house has and even more, with the following:
- Two televisions, in-motion satellite for TV while traveling, shower, three sinks, washer/dryer, 4 door fridge/freezer, sleeping for six, convection microwave, stove, etc.
The current bus has three slides on it, meaning that the walls move outward, which in turn gives it around 350 square feet of living space: the size of a Manhattan hotel room!!
The coach is totally self-contained, carrying 100 gallons of diesel fuel, and 110 gallons of fresh water. It has a separate generating system for power, being a self-contained 7.5 kn diesel generator. It is 40 feet long, 8.5 feet wide, 12 feet 3 inches in height, and when fully loaded grosses 32,000 lbs.
We are also currently installing our own Internet Satellite system, which will in turn be able to power three laptops up to 300 feet away from the coach, perfect for traveling media when it comes to filing reports or accessing the Internet. The system is a totally self-sufficient unit, with a 74 metre dish installed on the roof with automatic seek features.
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