By Sarah Michael The idea to quit their jobs and buy a school bus started off as a joke. But for six Australian friends the idea took hold, and five months later they are in the middle of an epic road trip around the United States in a bus they gutted and renovated themselves. The young professionals - including a lawyer, a financial advisor and an engineer – started in Canada and have since driven through 18 states from the West Coast to the East Coast of the US. Scroll down for video Friends (from left) Chris Crawford, Gerard Martin, Charlie Green, Olivia Murdoch, Lindsay Crawford and Matt McIver quit their jobs to travel across Canada and the US
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Friends from Toowoomba in Queensland are in the middle of an epic road trip around the United States and Canada
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The six Australians in their 20s bought a school bus, gutted it, renovated it and nicknamed it the 'Spruce Moose'
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Along the way they have met some interesting characters – and even ran into former Australian PM Julia Gillard
None of the friends had renovated a bus before but Mr @placeholder, a mechanical engineer, did most of the carpentry and Chris Crawford did the digital design