Steven lived the bus life for about a year until we moved cities and started the company. If you haven’t heard the story of how Paved To Pines came to be, in 2015 we traded a motorbike for this old 1991 bluebird school bus and ended up building Judy the skoolie over the course of 12 months. We lucked out as Judy didn’t seem to need anything but a little TLC! That skoolies still on the road with a new family!
In the beginning, this whole research thing didn’t even seem to cross our minds to compare all of the possible details we know now… We just jumped right in and did the due diligence we normally would when buying a used vehicle. I can’t even remember the engine and transmission that were in the bus. She was a 72 passenger Blue Bird International bus with a stick shift, hydraulic brakes and a long history. Judy was the first bus we ever owned, converted, and lived in.
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