Dispersed Camping in a Bus

[buswarrior]

Fair warning to the novice reader...

Luvrbus is one of the last of those pre-internet, well endowed pioneers, who taught himself to internet.

You'll need to mix a bit of protein powder into your avacado toast to keep up...

Happpy coaching!
Buswarrior

[Jim Blackwood]

Oh yeah, think very carefully about your bus being a "one wheel drive" vehicle before venturing off the pavement. Yes it's 2 tires but still...
And if that's your plan, you might want to buy up some surplus hydraulic cylinders and a hydropak or two and build your own set of on-board deep extraction hydraulic jacks. (I've done that for leveling jacks and it really isn't that difficult or expensive.) Maybe go for the widest tread you can find and fit under the bus to lighten your footprint also. Maybe something like Cement mixer tires for instance, especially on the front.

Out west the ground tends to be considerably more solid and stable for the most part (avoid sand at all costs). In the east it will be more of a challenge due to more moisture primarily. That big winch sounds like a capital idea. Plenty of room in the spare tire well. Might want to put a second one on the rear.

Jim

[chessie4905]

When starting to get stuck, spinning rear wheels like to go down, not forward, especially if front wheels are on soft ground.

[sledhead]

when I got stuck on my drive way in Florida and called for a tow from my tow service the first question to me was are you less then 100 ' from the road ?
but that said we have a cottage on a private road north of Huntsville Canada and the road is crap but I go in and out every week end and although there is only about 1 " of clearance between mirrors and trees I have never got stuck  ( yet ) and this is on a dirt crappy road . I go slow and my wife follows me with her eyes closed as every time she thinks I will ditch it because it is that close .
after I get to our drive way and pull in and set up the "camp site " is right on the lake ( 12 ' from the water ) and from the front window of the coach all you can see is lake and trees , so it is worth the drive to have the view and the quiet time

if you go prepared and are smart about it there are some amazing sights to camp in if you can make it . just watch the weather reports when you are in there

dave

[neoneddy]

Dave, I'd love to see a photo of that epic spot.... and maybe that driveway traversing :-)

[sledhead]

pic
https://photos.app.goo.gl/a4RAmaDs4EwBxAzr9

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fdKiLBkz2q7aQgFo9

https://photos.app.goo.gl/dqWfzGQRgLN175Ex9

https://photos.app.goo.gl/tFkhgVwmVfTr2xEj8

[sledhead]

pic

road looks huge but its not . to make any of the corners I have to turn as wide as I can and just miss the mirrors with the trees .

you can see our dog if you look close

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FQhip7GQmj2yQkqj7

dave

[DoubleEagle]

I would just trim a few trees to increase the chances of your mirrors surviving, you've got a great place to go to. It reminds me of the quiet lakes in Northern New Hampshire. 

[neoneddy]

Great pics. I was hoping to some some bus shots in there, such a tease.

[sledhead]

when we first bought the property the " guy " that owns the "road " as he called it told me I could fix the road as much as I wanted if I pay for it . so I dropped $5 k into it with about 30 tri axel loads of 1" stone , put 4 culvert drainage pipes in it and widened it to 12' wide and his wife gave me crap for cutting down the trees to do that ?

so now my wife and I use a hand poll saw in the spring before they come up to there cottage to stop all the branch's from scratching the coach . what a pain in the but that is and yes there have been discussions with my lawyer about it . I have a deeded legal right of way to use it but he is in control of maintaining it at no cost to me and the one guy past me and he has done nothing in the 6 years we have been there .   
the first day I started to cut the trees out of the way you could not get my polaris 4x4 down it with out scratch's from the branch's

but we both keep to our own and he never bothers us so it is very quiet

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HdPXNdgHPutx6snV7

we park the coach to the right of the cottage and have been renoing the cottage as we feel like it when we are there . it was at first to be a reno job and sell it but because it is so private and quiet we have been taking our sweet time at it

dave

[sledhead]

coach pics

https://photos.app.goo.gl/9LbsNHhE45qHSE9ZA

https://photos.app.goo.gl/k6ZCPc65rEhtQswEA

crappy phone pics

dave

[neoneddy]

Someday I want to do something similar.  Find a parcel of land, make it private RV campground for myself.  Maybe build a bricks and sticks place over a few years.

[sledhead]

my wife calls me cheap ! because I have her help me with renos on cottages so we can "camp " on site and use the coach to stay in and as a home base for tools needed . but because we reno the cottages we end up making a but load of $$$ when we sell them and because I am cheap we camp for free . we are on our second cottage in Florida as we finished the first one and sold it and have just bought a new to us cottage and will reno it as we enjoy the winter weather down south .
it works great for us and no I do not work her to hard

dave

[neoneddy]

I like it.

I'll need to file this idea away for when the kids finally leave.

[buswarrior]

The challenge/trouble with maintaining a driveway/road in the wilderness...

Cleaning it up too much attracts the "oh i thought this was a road" crowd...

As snug and overgrown as possible via the sightlines at the entrance end...

And the snowmobilers are worse for heading down "trails" they thought they read on a map...

Trespassers and property rights, the never ending conflict.

Nice pics, sledhead!

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior