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Midwest Wanderers: This Family Renovated a Bus to Travel America

Decisions, Decisions

The year was 2015, and Luke Davis was living with his wife and daughter in Illinois. Unemployed at the time, Luke decided to do the unthinkable and spend $4,000 on a school bus. Yes, I’m talking about a stereotypical, yellow school bus that we all grew up riding to and from school. With their friends’ and family’s help, Luke and his wife Rachel completely renovated the bus’s interior.

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In total, it took them around a year and a half, which isn’t that long considering what the bus looks like today. “At first, it seemed like such a crazy, far-out idea, the kind you only dream of doing,” Luke said in a blog post. “Then, the more we talked about it, the more we realized we couldn’t shake the desire for this lifestyle of freedom.”