the.com/tour bus
A hotel, office, and bar that happens to be moving at 70mph.
means A large motor coach kitted out with bunks, a lounge, and storage for gear, used to move musicians or travelers (and their stuff) from city to city.
from Straightforward compound: 'tour,' from Old French 'tor/tour' (a turn, a circuit — ultimately from Latin 'tornus,' a lathe, the tool that traces a circle), plus 'bus,' a 19th-century shortening of 'omnibus,' Latin for 'for all.' Omnibus started as horse-drawn public transit meant to carry everyone; it got clipped to 'bus' once the word was riding around in everyday speech. Stick the two together and you get exactly what it says: the vehicle that makes the circuit.
- bunk life
- grown adults sleep in stacked coffin-sized pods nightly
- the lounge
- back room reserved for whoever headlines, by unspoken law
- driver rules
- drives all night so you wake up in the next city
- true cost
- renting one can outprice the gig it serves