Excellent! There's no better way to go to the playa than with a bus. I'd already have one, but I haven't been able to get comfortable (yet) with the idea of owning something that I can't carry home on my equipment trailer if it were to break somewhere.Xtevan wrote:My best friend has a class C RV we frequently take to music festivals, It would be difficult to keep it from being destroyed by playa dust.
I looked at my options and ended up buying a flat front Bluebird school bus that was set up for highway use(4.30 rear end, under body lockers, roof rack). I get about 12mpg cruising at 55, 8mpg at close to 70mph for a 17,000lb vehicle. I like the idea of parking the front wheels up on a curb and hosing it out after Burning Man. So basicly, I bought Bluebirds Class A RV mechanicals without the interior or fancy trim or $250K price tag. Skoolie.net was a great resource there are a few resident Burners over there.
I could have bought a smaller used RV for a bit more, but since the bus was recently released from a school district where maintenance is done to federally mandated standards, I known maintenance was more likely to have been performed than would be by a typical rv owner,
Xtevan
Make sure you have towing insurance covered, those things are VERY expensive to haul in. I used to do that for a living!