Once seen, those stories, in turn, transfer back to the original architecture. Leaving the SFAC Gallery and passing through the Veterans Building lobby, the giant granite blocks look a little less intimidating, the lanterns a little warmer.

When I see and drive the bus in person, it’s nearly perfect. It checks all of the boxes on my list: length, size, accessibility, drivetrain, age, miles, fuel type, condition. It costs slightly more than I intended to spend, but the location and timing can’t be beat. I buy it. The next day, a friend and I drive up to the mountains. I spend two weeks near Vail, skiing and using timeshare vouchers to soak up the joy of warm beds and hot tubs before I transition to the bus. When I move in, it’s still 100% bus. No insulation, no creature comforts, not even a real bed. As an accessible bus, it has an empty space in the back where wheelchairs used to sit. It’s just large enough to fit my twin-size air mattress and the suitcase I’m living out of.

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Renovations included a new ceiling in the kitchen and dining area, inspection-required upgrades to plumbing and electrical, and lots of paint. Decades of unreachable dust were finally swept away. Rob Minervino and his son, Marcus, who will manage the place, bought some old church pews and cut them to fit into a corner, creating the restaurant’s first community seating space.

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Although this tree is sensationally eye-catching, it didn’t take much money to create. Over on Remodelaholic, guest blogger Corey of Sawdust2Stitches wanted to create a designer look from dollar store materials — and it looks like she succeeded. Check out the blog post to see every stage of the process, from stringing up the lights to winding the ribbon and spraying the “snow.”

“We have some news you won’t like,” one of his research associates told him, gesturing toward a surveillance video playing on her computer screen. Wilson peered at the images just as one of the three trespassers tried—and failed—to clear the fencing before barging his way in on the other side of the enclosure.

ALIE: This game has taken me to so many different places. It’s taken me to Hawaii, London, Germany, all over the U.S. and I’m thankful for that. Playing for the Haudenosaunee for the first time was amazing. It was also a culture shock traveling and meeting people that had never seen Native Americans before. They had the same notions of Native Americans, like we live in teepees. We had to teach them our culture.

That is not to say that the islanders are inhospitable – far from it – but the distinction between native and tourist is always immediately apparent. In one of the shops I meet an elderly brother and sister who still speak Sercquiais, an old Norman dialect descended from those who settled from Jersey in the 16th century. The patois sounds like French to the untrained ear, but the number of people who still speak it would barely reach double figures. ‘I tried it on a taxi driver when I was in Paris’, the brother tells me, ‘but he didn’t understand’.

A: Off the showroom floor it feels very unbalanced. The first test rider was back in the pits after one lap to stabilize the front/rear bias. In stock trim the 2004 KX125 has a nasty stinkbug feel. The front rides low and the rear is really high.

Zeena’s partner, Zack Mclaughlin, meanwhile is also a maker and something of an Instagram sensation, having clocked up over 31,000 followers. The crafty couple collaborated on a Christmas project for Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas show last year, combining print making and paper cutting to create a giant handcrafted paper garland. “It was hot, sweaty and nerve racking but I had a ball and somehow won the competition, which was incredible!” He and Zeena were asked back the following year to judge the wreaths.