What is vulnerability? The ability to cry? Feeling things intensely? I would say it’s simply being a human being. All of us have...

It used to be a thing, asking “Where do you see yourself in five years?” during job interviews. I played the game, had a bullshit answer...

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...

This isn’t working for me, this western world, this culture of just rushing and buying things you don’t need and traffic and beige...

The wind rose, testing us with rain and severe winds. Dust blew as if from God’s hand scoring windows and choking birds. Something...

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...

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,...

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

I am visiting my mother in a smallish town south of Sacramento, California. For the first time in four months I have neither a job nor a...

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...

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...

Do you enjoy being alone? Do you enjoy it, or are you simply comfortable with it---being on your own, away from other people? After a...

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...

I have established that I am a traveler and not a nomad, someone who needs a “home base.” Reaching that understanding is just the first...

The American Outback is not just a series of books, it is a state of mind, an ideal for living. I have been living out of my minivan for...

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...

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...