Former long time bike shop manager and passionate two wheel zealot, Manny Garcia, has agreed to do the build out that will be required to make our bus one we can live in on the road! And this man is all about Can Do!! If you followed my Eagle HiWheel ride to Salt Lake City in the summer of 2009, you will recall that Manny rode 400 miles of Nevada, the most mountainous state in the Union with me. What's wild is that in order to do so, he had to double whatever I rode so he could go back and get his vehicle allowing him to have it wherever it was that we lodged for the night. As in afternoon headwinds and re-summiting innumerable mountain passes to do so, whoaaaa.......
To the degree I can supply him the resources, money and new and used hardware, Manny will be installing everything from toilets and showers to fold down beds, cupboards and other forms of storage, even insulation, while I am away getting my books rewritten and ready for the 2011 season. The perfect man for the job, he knows how to get a result with often times much less than perfect materials. This is so because he grew up in a large family in Mexico City where he learned that if he wanted any of those things most American kids take for granted, that he could mix and match new, used and discarded items to create a worthy facsimile of that which the kids north of the border were enjoying.
That said, I will be using my afternoons to bring on more advertising support (to buy supplies for Manny) for my San Jose to Boston Eagle ride as well as scour Craigslist and other want ad boards for camper shells with worthy insides we can cannibalize. As well, if any of you want to come by Park Automotive here on Park Ave in Palo Alto to help Manny, we need you!!!
Here is what we foresee:
GMC Bus
- Double bed to back of bus that folds down from wall when acting as window shade when I compute
- Solar equipped
- Bio diesel
- Shower
- Sinks - 2 (kitchen, bathroom)
- Toilet
- Bedroom in section behind driver
- 3 fold down beds in next section for Documentary Film Crew
- A Solar Panel that can drive a laptop computer
- A propane reefer
THX 4 all of U!!
Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
2011 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist
Riding only active Eagle in world
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