Tales of an Interstellar Antique Store

The Dust Shuttle

Chad and Bryce at the Vermilion Cliffs on the first Dust Shuttle road trip, July 2021.

The Dawn of The Dust Shuttle

When people hear you majored in Philosophy it’s fair for them to ask, “What the hell do you do with that…?”

My name is Bryce and my answer is I sell chairs.

Sometimes ottomans too. Along with pottery, art, couches, glass, and light-up space helmets with astronauts trapped inside.

This is them, the astronauts.

I started finding and selling vintage objects as a side gig when I was 15. Thirteen years later I do it full-time, and in 2021 I launched The Dust Shuttle, a traveling antique store that my best friend and I drove around the country for two months straight.

Why this?

It’s always been difficult for me to settle on one interest. That’s why I majored in philosophy. If you can’t decide on one thing, choose a field that lets you study them all, right?

But I don’t think the ultimate goal is just to have a lot of interests. It’s to take all those interests and bind them up into something cohesive, something that’s uniquely yours because it’s built of what’s uniquely you. The Dust Shuttle is a pursuit towards that ideal.

I love storytelling and I love travel, which is why I love vintage stuff. It’s about both the history of the items and the stories behind finding them. You meet people along the way. You end up in places you’d never expect to be. It all becomes part of the fun and part of the items themselves.

The combination of these interests forms the ethos of the Shuttle.

A Finn Juhl NV-53 chair we found in California and later photographed in Glacier National Park.

What’s the substack for?

I want to share stories from our travels, remark on life as an entrepreneur, and document this adventure so I can look back on it in the future. I make videos on tiktok and instagram too, but this format is a little more familiar to me.

If you come along for the ride you can expect:

• Entertaining stories from the road

• Photos of what we buy and sell

• Reflections on running a business

• Monthly recaps on life at The Dust Shuttle

I hope you’ll stick around.

Until next time,

See ya~!