This site will be used to document my journey building a Skoolie with only the internet as my compass, and a lot of good advice from people who know how to do this. If you have ever considered building a tiny home, or an RV out of a school bus, but you really dont have a background in construction, this should be a good resource for you to see how some other guy with no experience embarks on trying this experiment.
How does one end up deciding they want to buy a bus and convert it into an RV?
For me it was a combination of boredom, cabin fever, and social media putting other folks adventures in my video feeds.
At the end of 2024 I found myself in Robert Packard Hospital in Sayre PA. I had had complications from an aneurism to my spleen. I was hospitalized from the beginning of October until Thanksgiving.
During this time I was seeing a lot of videos of people giving tours of these converted school busses called Skoolies. I was very interested and ended up buying a school bus.
The Sickler Skoolie Build 