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The Truth About "Vehicle Life"
There are distortions about what living in a vehicle is really like, some skewed to the positive and others to the negative. Some are...

Izaak David Diggs
Dec 12, 20233 min read


Burn Out, the sequel
I am tired of living out of a minivan but that observation is irrelevant. Everytime I feel burn out coming on there is this internal...

Izaak David Diggs
Aug 5, 20222 min read


Van Life Two Years in
I have been living out of my van since May 17, 2020; this is a warts and all “what it is really like” documentation of my day to day...

Izaak David Diggs
Jun 30, 20226 min read


The Importance of Being Idle
I feel the need to be doing something, to be productive; there are always books to write, plans to be made, things to figure out. There...

Izaak David Diggs
May 18, 20222 min read


Six Days in the Valley
The original plan was to scout places to spend the night in the northern Central Valley. If I ever refer to “the Valley” this is the...

Izaak David Diggs
Apr 24, 20223 min read


Why I Live in a Van
This story is fifteen years in the making; I will try to make it so it does not take that long to read… In 2007 my first wife and I were...

Izaak David Diggs
Apr 24, 20223 min read


Houseless Not Homeless
This is my second morning at Cowboy Camp, a free BLM campground in Lake County, California. The air is full of birdsong and the oaks are...

Izaak David Diggs
Apr 20, 20223 min read


Why I Do Not Shop at Wal Mart
(and why this makes me a hypocrite). I am back in Lodi visiting my mother after five weeks and five thousand miles through seven states....

Izaak David Diggs
Apr 10, 20223 min read


I am Not An Influencer
I am not an influencer. I am not among the young and the photogenic. You will not see me doing yoga on an idyllic beach next to my...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 28, 20223 min read


Lives in the Dust
I’ve now been on the road three weeks. The past two days, my convoy buddy and I have been parked behind the visitor center in Douglas,...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 28, 20222 min read


Address Unknown
I have now been on the road for fourteen days since leaving Central California. After four months of a “stick and brick” life there...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 19, 20223 min read


No Signal: Sneak Preview Two
This is a special sneak preview of the story of my first year living out of my van. THIS IS NOT THE FINAL VERSION OF THE BOOK, this is...

Izaak David Diggs
Jan 5, 20223 min read


No Signal: Sneak Preview 1
THIS IS NOT THE FINAL VERSION. THIS IS AN UNPROOFED MANUSCRIPT The following is from the book I wrote about the year I spent living "van...

Izaak David Diggs
Jan 2, 20223 min read


The Stationary Life (Part One)
Setting the scene: East Sacramento, a couple of miles from Downtown; an established neighborhood bordering a small park, trees letting go...

Izaak David Diggs
Nov 13, 20214 min read


Catchy Title Relevant to My Brand
Who am I? Do you ever ask yourself that? I’m Jason. I oversee part of a phone bank at a call center. I like mountain biking and have a...

Izaak David Diggs
Oct 26, 20213 min read


The Third Book of Song Lyrics is Available Now
I am currently a camp host in Central Oregon. My campground is beautiful and next to a lake but there is no signal. The only time I get...

Izaak David Diggs
Jul 1, 20211 min read


Tall People Do Not Fear Snow
This is day three of leg eighteen, exactly ten months after I left Portland with a casual rain falling. Starting this leg, I left my...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 17, 20213 min read


Powering Your Vanlife
When I started out as a nomad I was in a different place every night. Each day I would drive a couple hundred miles which was enough to...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 10, 20212 min read


Singing the Praise of Indoor Plumbing
I am not sharing this life with you if I do not include what occurs during spa days. I live out of a Honda Odyssey minivan, less than...

Izaak David Diggs
Feb 20, 20212 min read


Nomadland...kinda
***CONTAINS SPOILERS, just a warning*** Having been a nomad living out of my van nine months, I was curious to see the new film...

Izaak David Diggs
Feb 19, 20212 min read
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