Here are five non fiction books I cannot recommend enough

THE BIG SHIFT You fucked it up for all of us—I want to say that to the “vehicle dwellers” who abused privileges, who disrespected...

I apologize for the delay, been sorting things out, trying to figure out what the next step is. Been applying for stop gap jobs in...

There are distortions about what living in a vehicle is really like, some skewed to the positive and others to the negative. Some are...

Have traveled 60,000 miles in thirteen states I have seen a lot of beautiful places...and a lot of trash where trash does not belong. I...

I gave up on Twitter/X and now I have pretty much given up on Facebook…aside from Marketplace. I am always pricing trucks, vans, and...

JUN 17 2026 (written 17 Jun 23) This habit is called “visualizing the future,” how I see my life and where I live etc. These articles are...

Nature abhors a vaccum: If you are opting out of one thing, you need to be opting into something else. If you, for example, don’t feel at...

I will be moving from the United States as soon as it becomes practical to do so; my estimate would be one to two years. There are many...

I have this wad of paper napkins in the door of the van: McDonalds. TacoBell…has to be a couple dozen of them from the trip. You get your...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...