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-Living in the bus was always about far more than traveling. It would not be inaccurate to say that traveling was really a biproduct of living in the bus rather than the reason for it. A nice fringe benefit if you will. For me at least though living in the bus was more about stepping outside the consumer lifestyle. It was about living with less. I wanted to step back and eliminate a lot of things and see if they mattered to me. It is one thing to sit around and wish you could get rid of things because they cost money or you just think you might be able to get along without them It's another story entirely to actually do it. Living in the bus provided a way to experiment in doing without, but offsetting those missing items with the adventure of travel and challenges of living on the road. 
+Living in the bus was always about far more than traveling. It would not be inaccurate to say that traveling was really a byproduct of living in the bus rather than the reason for it. A nice fringe benefit if you will. 
 
-So we questioned everything. In doing so we learned all kids of things. Do we need a large living space? No. Provided we have a large outdoor space we don't really need anymore than place to sleep and get out of the weather fromm time to time. Did we really need tk? Nope. Do we really need air conditioning? No, but it can be really nice at times. How about Refridgeration? Nope, but again, nice for some things. The list here is very long, but you get the idea. We learned to live with much less.
+For me living in the bus was more about stepping outside, literally and figuratively. Stepping back as well, taking stock and critically evaluating the assumptions that had been handed to me about how to live. This very quickly became about living with less. When you have less than 160 square feet of livable space, everything becomes about doing more with less.
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+And that's what we wanted anyway, which is why the bus was always perfect. I wanted to step back and eliminate a lot of things and see if they actually mattered to me. It is one thing to sit around and wish you could get rid of things because they cost money or you think you might be able to get along without them.
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+It's another story entirely to actually do it. 
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+Living in the bus provided a way to experiment in doing without, but offset any loss with the adventure and excitement of travel and living on the road. 
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+We questioned everything. In doing so we learned all kids of things. Do we need a large living space? No. Provided we have a large outdoor space we don't really need anymore than place to sleep and get out of the weather fromm time to time. Did we really need tk? Nope. Do we really need air conditioning? No, but it can be really nice at times. How about Refridgeration? Nope, but again, nice for some things. The list here is very long, but you get the idea. We learned to live with much less.
 
 I saw, and still see, that as the first step in a transition away from a life consuming. Okay, so we consume much less, that's good. That's a first step, but we can (and should) go much farther than that.