By the Nomadventure Family | Skoolie Life · Bus Conversion · Tiny Living on Wheels There is a specific category of decision that sounds, in the planning stage, like an act of bold genius — and reveals itself, somewhere around the third week of construction, to be an act of bold insanity. Buying a retired school bus from your local Maine school district and converting it into a family home is firmly in this category. We did it anyway. And we would do it again. But let's be honest about how it actually went — because the internet is full of stunning skoolie build reveals featuring reclaimed wood countertops and string lights, and suspiciously short on documentation of the part where you're in a Lowe's parking lot in South Carolina in November, rolling bus-green paint onto a 40-foot vehicle by hand, wondering whether "sea mist green" was really the stealthy color choice you thought it was back when you were warm and optimistic in Maine. How Base Ca...