Our story… • Hi my name is Tawny, and this is my home, a school bus named Oliver. • For five years I lived and traveled in this bus with my husband, and together we’ve been over quite a few roads, all the way from Alaska down to Mexico. • Between travels we had a home base in Montana, a small homestead we shared with family where we kept chickens and goats. • Last year we finally found a place that made us want to settle for good, so we packed up all those chickens and goats in a cargo van, and together with the bus we caravanned down to the Midwest, where we purchased ten acres of land in beautiful Missouri. • This valley is our dream, an abundant forest teeming with wildlife and plants and mushrooms, with a pond and streams flowing through it, and trees hundreds of years old. • There were a few existing structures, but the last year was one of solid work building the foundations of our new homestead, mostly from scratch. • First up were barns and fencing for all our animals, which was good because we had quite a few new faces join us along the way over the last year. • Then as spring arrived we turned our attention to building a greenhouse and garden, creating compost and water systems, and planting an orchard to supply as much of our own food as we possibly can. • We rounded out our first year by adding additional living space to Oliver in the form of a greenhouse style bathhouse with a tub and shower supplied by the natural spring, and an outdoor living area so we can continue to live outdoors as much as possible even though we aren’t traveling now. • We had a lot of amazing views out of these little bus windows during our travels, but its a different kind of joy now when I look out in the mornings and realize I, and Oliver, are finally home. . . . . .
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