“Hello Lloyd. Thought I’d share my West Marin home of 6 years. 144 square ft.”

-Todd Pickering

“My family and I spent the summer and fall of 2011 converting this Dallas City 72 passenger school bus into a home. We devoted our energy to creating an open, warm, bright, and inspiring space for our family. By building up and customizing the back of the bus, we created a very unique and distinctive living space that eliminates the cold, tubular feel of a school bus.…

Model: 1994 Blue Bird TC2000 72 passenger school bus

We put our hearts and souls into making this bus our home and have loved every minute that we have spent living in it. As sad as it is for us to part with it, selling the bus will fund our move to Alaska and give our young growing family a good start there.

If you are interested in purchasing the bus please send us an email and we can arrange a time to meet. We are currently living 9 miles south of downtown Olympia off I-5.…”

https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/rvs/2958540374.html

From Adam Reitano

“After losing their business, a restaurant, during the recession, Carl and Hari sold their comfortable three-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot home and began living in 168-square-foot shed built primarily from Craigstlist-sourced reclaimed materials for $12,000. While the 8-by-12-foot tiny home is mighty cute, let’s not forget that the Carl and Hari aren’t its only inhabitants: their two elementary school-aged children live there as well, sharing a sleeping loft above the bathroom. As Hari explains in the below video, the cheap-to-heat tiny house is just a temporary housing solution while the couple saves enough cash to build a larger (but still small-ish) mortgage-free home complete with a bathtub and “alone time” spaces. Here’s hoping it happens before the kids hit puberty.…”

https://shltr.net/IFWC4G

“Made from scavenged materials, Derek Diedricksen’s tiny houses cost just $200 to make. What the little wooden dwellings lack in space, is made up for in style thanks to plenty of decorative detail.

   The 33-year-old uses parts of discarded household items to ensure each home has basic functions, the glass from the front of a washing machine is converted in a porthole-like window while a sheet of metal becomes a flip down counter.…”

From Daily Mail Reporter

Author “Tour” With City Lights last week, I’ve done 6 bookstore appearances and now I have 2 weeks before taking off for Canada, where I’ll be in Vancouver April 19, Hornby Island 4/22, Denman Island 4/23, and Victoria 4/25.

   I’ve got a busy May-early June schedule: The North House Folk School for the 1st week of May; the mighty Maker Fair in San Mateo, Calif. May 19-20; the Mother Earth News Fair in Puyallup, Washington on June 2; then directly to NY for the 2102 BookExpo America, and an appearance at the v. cool Spoonbill and Sugartown bookstore in Brooklyn on June 6th, then back to SFO on June 11th. Whooh! I know it’s not as dense a schedule as most on-the-road authors have, but I’ll be glad when it’s over. It’s fun and rewarding to be at these places, but it’s the getting there and back…

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