When Craig Gordinier, 28, had to pick between living with his parents and living on a school bus, he selected the bus and went to live out his aspirations.

It was 2020, when a business transaction for Craig did not go as planned.

He said, “After a failed business venture at the very beginning of COVID last year, I found myself, at 27 years old, home on my parents’ sofa, starting new again.”

Craig began to consider the broader picture at that point.

If his desire was to buy an RV and travel the nation when he was 65, why should he wait 40 years to do so when he retires?

Craig realized he didn’t want to and chose to follow his dream immediately.

“I began looking at sprinter vans, trailers, small houses, and buses, and I eventually located the right bus in South Dakota.” “I traveled there and purchased the bus,” he says.

Craig took the 1991 Blue Bird school bus back to Massachusetts, a 28-hour journey.

“And I had this fantastic feeling coming up and seeing my parents’ reactions as I drove this large school bus,” he said.
But that was the simple part. Craig had to commence renovating the bus to make it habitable again.

Fortunately, he had the support of his family and friends.

The bus had to be trimmed down to a bare insulating shell and bespoke sections installed.

The bus’s entrance has a domestic door as well as a security pad. Craig also elevated the living room roof by roughly 20 inches. The bus also includes lower storage compartments and a platform for transporting Craig’s motorcycle.

The driver’s seat, on the other hand, remained almost unchanged.

“I wanted to protect this history.””And it’s just a beautiful thing,” Craig says.

The bedroom, like the bathroom, is in the rear of the bus and has a beautiful skylight above.

“Just because homes have rooms doesn’t imply a bus has to have rooms,” Gordnier said to Insider. “It’s like a mobile mansion.”

The video below takes you on a tour of Craig’s Blue Bird residence.