Kevin Warnock

Adolfo and Kevin, March 27, 2007

Today I registered my new RTS bus conversion I bought on EBay from Adolfo Sanchez of Merced, California. Here’s a picture of me with Adolfo by a branch of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, right after I registered the former San Joaquin County transit authority bus as a motorhome.

I am so happy! What an adventure I’m about to embark on…

Inside San Francisco Recology dump, March 26, 2007

I drove my new RTS bus conversion to the dump today. Specifically, the Recology dump.

Going to the dump is an experience not to be missed in life.

When you’re driving a bus conversion, you have to use the special scale they normally reserve for garbage trucks. The normal scale is too small for the long wheelbase of a bus conversion. After you exit the scale, it’s confusing where to go, and I made a wrong turn and headed into the huge warehouse space where the City’s refuse trucks dump their loads of garbage. I took the picture above, which is strangely beautiful I think.

That’s an open pit of trash about the size of a football field. There is a lone ski boot resting on that metal frame. And then there are dozens of seagulls having a feast. The smell in this building was interesting.

I just drove through and out and on to the correct building for consumer home trash dropped off by citizens. That building doesn’t smell bad as people don’t typically dump wet food trash.

I was there to discard a few of the bus seats from when my conversion was a commercial transit bus.

These bench seats are heavy stainless steel, and way too big to cut up and put in the regular trash.