Duggars upgrade to bus
The 19-member Duggar family will now take vacations in a bus once used by Cher and the Port Huron Flags hockey team.
Jim Bob Duggar, 42, and Michelle Duggar, 41, of Tontitown, Ark., have 17 children, including two sets of twins.
Fred Minnie, a charter member of the now-defunct Flags team who transported the hockey players in one of his three tour buses, sold the bus to the Duggars in early September. Minnie, who wouldn’t say how much the bus sold for, said Jim Bob Duggar told him the family’s motor home, trailer and van just weren’t cutting it when it came to taking the family on the road.
The Flags owned the 1993, 15-bed Prevost tour bus for two years. When the team ceased operations in May after finishing its second season, Minnie posted an ad trying to sell the bus in an auto magazine. The Duggar family saw the ad and contacted Minnie, who recognized the family from television.
“There’s not too many of those buses with 15 beds in it,” he said. “(Duggar) couldn’t get here fast enough.”
The Duggars have big plans for the bus. Jim Bob said the family hopes to travel north this year to visit Michelle’s family in Ohio.