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Curiosityness

014 The Solo Traveler Who's Never Alone, Michael Fuehrer of NavigationNowhere

Curiosityness

Travis DeRose

History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Michael Fuehrer lives full-time in a 35 foot converted school bus. Although he lives by himself, Michael is rarely alone due to the fact that his bus sleeps six people and has the capacity to seat 8 people for dinner! Social interaction and community was Michael's main intention when he renovated his bus allowing him to bring along his friends and the new acquaintances he meets on the road.

After college, Michael discovered that he actually preferred living in a smaller space. He enjoyed the challenge of designing every area to be practical and useful. This eventually led him to Craigslist where he bought the first bus he found, a 2004 Thomas Freightliner for $3600. After 9 months of renovating, his bus was complete with a full shower and toilet, 2 beds, an office, and much much more. Today Michael spends his time traveling around to festivals and events helping folks with their bus renovations. 

Michael is such a friendly and helpful guy. In this episode we talk about how to choose the right bus for you, things to look out for when shopping for a bus, what a composting toilet is, what sucks about living on the road, and a lot about Walmart parking lots.

 

Follow Michael on Instagram: @navigationnowhere

Find Michael on YouTube: Navigation Nowhere

Visit Michael's website: NavigationNowhere.com

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hello, and welcome to episode 14 of campers and vans getting coffee. This episode

0:07.5

I have on Michael Furer. He is super friendly, super fun, just such a nice, helpful guy.

0:15.5

And he has really turned living on the road into like a super social like community driven thing. It's super

0:23.5

cool. So he lives so like technically lives by himself in his 35 foot converted school bus,

0:29.9

but it sleeps six. It's a big long school bus. So he always has people in there with him, basically living with him. So he has

0:40.1

his friends. He has his family for a bit. He just has people that he's met on the road that he

0:44.9

seemed cool and he wants to hang out with. So he does all this cool stuff and he meets a bunch of people.

0:49.6

He helps a lot of people with building and renovating their buses and goes to festivals and events

0:56.5

and that kind of stuff and helps them out. So this is a good, just fun episode where we talk about

1:01.9

all that. So here is Michael and here is the episode. Hello, Michael. How's it going?

1:11.3

Good. How are you doing?

1:13.0

I'm doing good, man. Thanks for being on the show.

1:15.3

Yeah, thanks for having me. It was a bit fun trying to get on, but we found some internet and found some time.

1:22.2

So glad to be here.

1:24.0

Yeah, the endless struggle to find internet, right?

1:27.0

Yeah, yeah, I feel like you must have a

1:29.2

good bit of trouble getting people on because I'd imagine most people are traveling and I'm sure

1:36.1

we all have the same struggles with internet. So it's probably always fun for you. Yeah, definitely,

1:42.5

very true. But it always works out. We always figure out a way, you know. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, definitely, very true. But it always works out.

1:44.9

We always figure out a way, you know?

1:46.8

Yeah, for sure.

1:47.5

That's life, I guess.

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