Living in the BUS is not what you think!

Who said that living in the BUS was magical and colorful and hippie groovy?

Did you look at the pictures above?
All the small details? Look at them with me, let's go one by one.

Like having breakfast at the table that stands precisely in the middle of the corridor. A table that comes out every time that is needed, but a small one that doesn't give any space around it and it's very small even to have our 2 computers on it at the same time.
My "office" on the sofa. There is no other place to do it and it's the closest place to the table (that one that is an office and dinning table as well).
A bed that it's so challenging to make every time that we have to change the sheets, because one of the sides is a wall (window). The bed space it's an interesting one: every time that the person that sleeps on the window side has to pee at night, a gymnastic ability is necessary: and there he goes jumping to the other side, in the dark. It's very cold close to the window - it's like a car - no insulation at all. When we light the fire it gets so hot there, that we have to open the window and in 10 minutes, it's cold again. This during the Winter. During the Summer it's so hot that even with all the windows open, we don't have enough oxygen to breath. Ah, I was almost forgetting that if we want to read a book in bed, there's no wall to lean in our backs. We have to read with our belly facing down, which at the end of sometime causes a big pain in the lower back. The bed turns into a kind of storage place or a place where we put everything during the day, and then at night, we take everything into the sofas.
The kitchen area is so small, with no much storage and we always bang our heads into the top cupboard. When it's very hot, either because it's summer or because we have the wood burner on, all the melting things melt (like chocolate and coconut oil). We have no running water and the sink gets blocked quite often.
The wood burner area is quite organized but very hard to keep it clean because it's where we storage the wood and the pine cones. It's small for storage, so we have to bring wood in a lot of times. It's in a weird place of the BUS because it's so protected that the sofa area doesn't get heated well, while the sleeping area is too hot.
It's challenging to have organized areas, because we don't have a good storage, so socks are waiting to be sown on top of some books.
And when it's raining, that's when we wish that the BUS was bigger than it is: we have to dry clothes inside, in a cord in the middle of the corridor, there is no dry place when we enter (shoes wet, umbrellas and wet coats - no where to put it without getting other dry things wet).

It's quite funny!
We love living here, and yet we have all these challenges.
Yes, we could have less stuff, but most of the things that we have here are the essential ones.
We laugh when we get irritated with some of the challenges - because what is there more to do?

We love the BUS and the magic that it brings, but the hilarious thing is that it's very small and challenging to live in.
I (Raquel) live here for almost 3 years and a half and we share the BUS for almost 3 years. And I would never change it before for any other place here at Mizarela.

It is our home for now and it was the best place to support our evolution, because all the challenges that I said before, were the ones that made us be with what things were.

"Just relax and breath, it's just a small place, it doesn't mean anything about you or anything else".
The BUS was the ideal place for us to be resilient - completely elastic in a challenging situation!
And at the end, the friction and the challenges are the best situations for evolution to sparkle from!

With (Tiny) love
Raquel & David


P.S. - After reading this you still think that the tiny house that we are building is big? Hmm?