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Five Non Fiction Books to Read and Love
Here are five non fiction books I cannot recommend enough

Izaak David Diggs
Apr 233 min read


The Big Shift
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...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 19, 20243 min read


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


Five Years
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...

Izaak David Diggs
Feb 28, 20235 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


I Will Never Live Check to Check Again
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...

Izaak David Diggs
May 2, 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


This Isn't Working For Me
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...

Izaak David Diggs
Apr 13, 20222 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


A Calling Will Drown Everything Else Out
The wind rose, testing us with rain and severe winds. Dust blew as if from God’s hand scoring windows and choking birds. Something...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 29, 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 29, 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


Help Yourself
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...

Izaak David Diggs
Mar 1, 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 6, 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
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