Wildebeest, Our New Home...

 Hey Y'all,

If you follow us on social media, you've seen Wildebeest (or Wilda for short). Our 1990 Ford E350 Shuttle Bus, whom we're converting into our new home on wheels. In her previous life she was a Mobile Emergency Unit Command Center, lots of words to say she was a Parking Lot Princess most of her life.

We picked her up in Tennessee, did a bunch of mechanical work, and started on our clean up & temporary build. We've already discovered things we're liking and things we aren't (and plan to change in the future).

The accompanying video isn't ready yet, unfortunately. We've been busy traveling and getting back to work. While she was in the shop we didn't have access to the footage to begin editing. We hope to have that posted by Saturday the 14th, and I'll add in the video HERE.

Some work in progress pictures:

Clean up, and planning. The middle table doesn't work for us.

Passenger seat installed! (And seat belts.)

A warm day!


Moving things over.

Chris taking down  the window coverings, then I cleaned them.


Starting to put the bed together, a full full size bed!

Planning the temporary build layout.

Figuring things out!

That was all the pictures I have on my phone of the build progress. 

There are a few sneak peek videos on all our social media if you want to check them out:

linktr.ee/outlandadventures


We'll get that video up on YouTube ASAP!

Thanks,

The Outlands

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