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I began Rving as a full-timer back in 1981.  My father had a stroke, and I helped close down a family business with 35 employees.   Many of these employees needed to relocate to find suitable work, but had little money for moving costs.  We all got together and I suggested they pool their truck rental money, buy a school bus, and I would help load and drive the bus full of their stuff wherever they needed to move.  They paid all of my expenses as I did this for nearly 4 months, then I got to keep the bus, a 1969 GMC 66 passenger model built by Wayne coachworks in Richmond Indiana.  As I drove all across the country for them, I made plans for how I would make a home for myself in the bus, which I started calling "Wayne", based on the nameplate on the dashboard.

It took two years, and more money than I expected, to complete the interior transformation.  I lived in Wayne as I worked on him, and eventually he was finished from front to back, including a wood stove, a piano, solar battery charger, and a demand water heater.  Wayne carries 90 gallons of fresh water, holds 125 gallons of wastewater, sports 90 pounds of LP gas, sleeps 5 comfortably, and has a full standup shower in the bathroom.  The kitchen stores more pots and pans than many a small house kitchen.

I lived for the next eight years in Wayne, then off and on for anouther 4 years.  Recently, I got Wayne out of storage and back on the road (this is a long story), and used it to move myself, my fiance, and five cats from Kentucky to Florida.  Wayne is back in storage for now, but the road is definitely calling.

Jeff Dammeyer

Once & Future Fulltimer, Florida
1969 Bus Conversion