The Painted Buffalo

Traveling Veteran Art Studio + 
full-time adventure family

Location: USA

a community of 25k and growing

In between providing art supplies to veterans to tell their own stories through art, Jess + the zoo adventure around the United Sates in their self converted school bus. We have explored 38 states and British Colombia from 2019 - current and are excited to add more this year. We pride ourselves in adventure for the whole family, learning through doing and getting to see as many cool places as possible together. Our family consists of Mom and kids, 3 dogs, a cat and 2 leopard geckos. We all love to adventure together! 

38 states traveled

30 National Parks Explored

300 veteran meetups

countless more adventures to go

Painted Buffalo 1.0 Tour