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...

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

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 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 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...

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...

I am never going to live check to check again. For most of my adult life every paycheck has meant too much, make or break; I think a lot...

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...

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...

(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....

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...