Crashed Purple Bus in Ocoee TN Mountains
If you want to have a real hippie experience with a real hippie, visit this place! A purple bus nestled – I mean “Crashed” – amongst the TN mountain foliage and flowers is the perfect place to find a hippie lady selling hippie merchandise and living a hippie life. Peace and love for sure! Ms Be’s Purple Bus is a great place to visit.
A Roadside Hippie Treasure
As my wife and I were returning from a trip to Nashville, TN to catch The 5.6.7.8’s, I noticed this place alongside the TN highway. On the way home, we did what anyone with sense would have done and stopped. It was a great decision because this was a find. I wanted to talk to the lady that owned it more but, it was surprisingly busy. From what little conversation I got to have with her, I learned that she lived in a bus, worked in a bus, and she was a real deal committed hippie. Unfortunately, I think the “hippie” culture today is losing a lot of its original roots. That’s a discussion for another time though.
Get Your Hippie Treasure at Ms Be's Purple Bus
All in all, this was a small roadside shop to purchase hippie-type items. She had a lot of clothes (some were handmade if my memory is correct), stickers of all sorts, glass items, keychains, anything you can think of Grateful Dead, etc. There was a sitting area in the front too which was nice. Or course, sitting anywhere in TN and just looking at the mountains brings a certain calm to anyone, I think. The company of the owner was great too because of her personality – when you meet a real hippie, you meet a unique person. Oh yeah, there was a constant sound of the Grateful Dead and other hippie-era bands playing on the bus’s sound system. I think I dropped $125 in this purple bus.
I'm Ready to Return to this Purple Bus
Ms Be’s Purple Bus can be found at 636 US-64 in Ocoee, TN 37361. If you are driving through this area of TN, it should be a must-stop and see. If I am ever through that way again, I will pay Ms Be another visit. What would really be cool is to sit out front in one of those purple chairs with her and finish our conversation…
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