My name is Seb (Sebastien) and I come from Toulouse, France.
I have a 1966 VW bus since 9 years and I used to use it on week-ends and holidays so as to travel around Europe (Portugal, Spain, France and Corsica).
This bus used to be a panelvan modified by a previous owner (windows and ragtop). I wanted to converted it with original windows frames and samba sunroof (that I've got) but I didn't have enough time to do it.
I made most of the things on the bus by myself : IRS conversion with 8x33 beetle gearbox and 1968 baywindows drums at the rear, 1835 engine, dropped spindles and CSP disc brakes in front. We made with my girlfriend Soizic by ourselves all the furnitures inside including a 12V mini fridge and a RnR bed more or less like a SO42.
We was dreaming since a long time to do a big trip but for us it was impossible to think that we should be able to afford it because we are not millionaires and we didn't win at the lottery. So, in july 2012 we decided to sell all we had in order to afford a one year trip. We sold our 2 modern cars, our furnitures, TV, washing machine, fridge…, and we left our flat we used to rent. By sleeping in the car and cooking inside we saved money.
We really wanted to do this trip with our VW bus because thanks to this car you can meet a lot of nice people all around the world.
Soizic is a school teacher (she teach to students between 9 and 10 years old) and she took a sabbatical year (w/o incomes) and me I used to import RV's (I quitted my job).
The bus :
The 7th of july 2012, I left Toulouse with a journalist in direction of Rotterdam (Netherland) in order to load the bus on a container.
Rotterdam, Netherland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gFbznrNuJc
