Teotihuacan’t Bring Us Down

Entering Teotihuacan Teotihuacan’s Piramide de la Luna Determined to watch the sunrise atop a pyramid, we parked our beloved Fungibus alongside a fence cloaked in darkness just behind Piramide del Sol at the sacred Mesoamerican ruins of Teotihuacan. A tornado erupts inside the bus as we bundle up, clothes, backpacks and sleeping bags flying in a flurry of […]

Mad Fungi Scientist Unite!

Guadalajara Mushroom Friends Fungi lovers are sprinkled throughout the world, country to country, state to state, separated by language barriers, cultures, and beliefs. Our mission is to break down the imaginary barriers and connect through the world of mushrooms. The date is November 22, 2016, and 7 of us are adventuring the heart of Guadalajara, […]

Divine Synchronicity – Survival of the Magical School Bus

Quick answer: This is a personal travel story from the Fungi Academy crew’s 2016 journey by school bus toward Guatemala. When the bus broke down in New Mexico, a series of synchronicities led them to Martin, a mechanic who repaired it for free and caught a dangerous loose bolt. The takeaway: staying in the flow, […]

Companion Gardening with Fungi in San Luis Obispo

Quick answer: This post follows the FungiBus crew’s first official road-trip stop at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where graduate Nathan Whitman is building a mushroom lab and a solar-powered pasteurization barrel. His team’s companion-gardening trials found king stropharia (garden giant) and a mycorrhizal fungi blend produced lusher, healthier, more drought-tolerant plants. King stropharia is […]

Growth spurt on the Magical Fungi bus

Quick answer: This is a personal, reflective post from the early days of the Fungi Academy crew’s bus journey from San Francisco toward Guatemala. The author reflects on the community of creators drawn to the magical fungi bus, how the group grows stronger the further south they travel, and the idea that challenges and shadow […]