Donald busts up some flakey paint
After an entire week of scraping, scratching, scrubbing and sanding, the bus is ready to be painted! Of course the weather forecast for the next few days is RAIN, SHOWERS, and more RAIN. Oh well, we’ve had perfect weather up to now, and it will be good to have a day off tomorrow to send email to all of the teachers that I’m visiting or hoping to visit in the coming months.
One of the exciting things we did today was replace the gaskets that are supposed to seal around the edge of the back windows – previously they had just been taped. Well, the rain had a way of getting around the tape – and tonight’s showers will be a good test!
After the painting is done, the BioBus is heading west towards Illinois.
Rick Cleaning the Wheel Well
Rick Becker will be joining me for this exciting mid-west tour. We will be teaching at public schools as well as museums along the way, as well as making a stop at a bus customizing company as well as a bus garage to get some estimates and perhaps start making some improvements to both the bus and the lab elements of the bus. Many of the people we will be visiting are people that we met with on the way over from California at about this time last year. I am very excited to give them all tours of the lab – without some of those people’s help, this project may have ended in Columbus, Ohio or Washington, PA!!