Its been a busy month but I thought I would take some time a give a little bit of a back story of this crazy bus. Back in 2008 after we had spent a year living in the Philippines we came home not knowing what to do with ourselves. We knew that we wanted to do something as a family, i.e. Family business but didn't know what. We had been living down in Oregon for a while and there was a coffee shop on every corner ( not like Tim's) but just a shack that served coffee and baking. They also had a double decker bus that we would go to every morning for coffee and thought it was such a great idea.
Fast forward a year later and the seed was planted. I started looking around for a bus and spent 6 months researching the idea, put together a business plan and then got funding. One day I happen to see this " running double decker" on Ebay and jumped at it. I won it in the last 10 seconds outbidding another guy from Florida. At this point it was no turning back and I had to make this thing work. My wife has thought and still thinks We are insane!! I spent about a year and a half slowly renovating and Voila! Cool Beans was born.
Here are some before and after pics















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Thanks to all those who have come out and supported us as a family, we are very grateful

We are pushing 3 weeks in business and the feed back has been awesome! We are actually having a lot of fun despite working long hours. Even in spite of the fact that we were broken into on the 30th. You must be thinking that we are really upset and stressed that we were broken into but somehow it feels like we should milk it for all it's worth. So basically this guy showed up at the bus at about 9:30pm and began to survey the area. First he tried to pull the main doors open but realizing they were locked he moved on to the sliding window. Now I am no genius when it comes to bus security and definitley not an expert at locking a sliding window. He managed to pull hard enough that the sliding window slid right open ( since remedied). Pulled himself in and moved right to the back of the bus where the fridges are and began to spend about 2 minutes working at something. Then he came back to the sliding window and scooted out with what looked like a take-out container. Meanwhile passing all the tip money and Abby's jar of money she has earned. Never mind all the things he could have taken. Here we have a thief that breaks into our bus and steals a Panini! I have included some pics from the video footage which I have included on our fanpage on Facebook and Twitter. I am thinking this would make a great Campaign!

In he goes







Out he comes with his sandwich


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Priceless!!!


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