EXCITING NEWS!!!

Hello! This is such an exciting post that I am so excited to share with you guys. I have waited so long to actually be able to make this post, and now I can finally make it! So, now for the news:

I bought an ambulance!

I really, actually, with my own money, bought my own ambulance. A whole vehicle that is just mine and mine only! I am so excited to be sharing this with you guys, I really hope that I can make this as interesting as possible so you guys enjoy reading these as much as I enjoy making them.

I bought this ambulance for the sole purpose of turning it into my campervan. I’m so excited to finally start this journey, especially with you guys here to support me.

So, now for the story.

For a while, my dad has been watching and participating in online auctions. These are things like estate sales, or when Lowe’s doesn’t want to resell returned merchandise, so they sell it to an auction house to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

One day, my dad was looking through the auctions and found an ambulance. It was a 2005 F-350 ambulance from the little city of Pahrump, about an hour from Vegas. I wasn’t really interested at first, but eventually started talking it over with my dad and thinking about how it would work a lot.

Eventually, I ended up falling in love with this ambulance. It already has so many features that I would be putting in anyways that it just seemed like an amazing option for me. Especially for a starter van. I told everyone about it and started trying to manifest it.

I was really surprised with how much I liked this, because I had previously thought I had my mind set on a new Ford Transit. However, this was such a great opportunity that I could not just pass it up.

On the Thursday that the auction ended, on the 17th, there was a live preview at the auction house in Pahrump. We went in the morning time, and went to go look at the ambulance. I fell even deeper in love with it, just looking at all the amazing features that it already had.

That night, when the auction was ending, a lot of people were bidding. It was a crazy 20 minutes watching the price go up and up, finally making a bid, and then finally winning. It was a crazy amazing feeling actually winning this ambulance that I had been fantasizing about for the entire past week.

The next day, we drove to Pahrump once again to pick my ambulance up. Getting insurance on it was pretty difficult, since not many companies want to insure something that looks like an ambulance. But, we got it done.

Taking it home was a very interesting experience, and I tried to see how it would be when I was driving it back and forth across the country in the very near future.

I made my dad drive it home the first time, and this is because it’s much more wide than a regular car. I was not comfortable driving it yet, and my dad is going to give me driving lessons with it. He is used to driving more wide things because he usually drive the RV we have.

I’m so excited to build it out and finally get it on the road, but I know this is gonna be a very long journey.

One of the first major things I want to do to it is paint the outside. I know it’s big, and it’s still obviously going to look like an ambulance, but I want to be as inconspicuous as possible. I know I’m going to be recognizable, but I think not being a red and white paint job will help my noticability.

I’m not really sure yet if we are going to paint it or if we are going to have someone else paint it, but this all depends on difficulty and price, mainly. I really want it to not cost a lot, but that usually means with a company that you get what you pay for, and it won’t be that good.

I do have a couple options, but I am not sure which one I am going to choose yet.

A few of the other first things we have to do is to replace some of the light bulbs, completely deep clean the inside and outside (especially because it used to be an ambulance), and to get new tires.

There are a whole lot of things we have to do before we start building it out, obviously, but I am excited to get to work. I know that there will be a lot of problems, issues, and hardships, but I know I will get through them.

I have a great support system and a lot of people who have already helped me through the issues we have already had. I appreciate all of those people so much.

So, look forward to more posts about my ambulance, because I’m looking forward to writing them. I’m going to keep on posting weekly art posts from my class, and I will be making relatively consistent posts about my ambulance, based on how much progress I make working on it.

Thank you all so much for reading my blog post and supporting my journey. I hope I can keep all of you interested with the next one! See you there!