You Don’t Need to Pay $1,000 for a Portable Generator
SO, YOU'VE ASSESSED YOUR ELECTRICAL NEEDS, weighed the alternatives, familiarized yourself with the pros and cons, and decided a 1,000 Watt portable inverter generator is the best answer for you. But woo-mama! Nearly a thousand bucks for the popular Honda EU1000!...
Be Part of the National Vehicle Residency Online Summit
National Vehicle Residency Summit - Online! You Can Attend It Too! ~REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN~ Consider attending this first ever POSITIVE national focus on those of us who live out of our vehicles. Free and online. This summit will highlight legal issues that need to...
A Few Words from Swankie
Longtime nomad, kayaked in all 50 states, multiple hip and shoulder surgeries, supporting actor in Nomadland
Sunday Short: Shower Power
I SAW THIS CONVERSION VAN at the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous a couple of years ago, I think. I wish I knew who owned it so I could give them credit for this imaginative shower setup and for being bold enough to bathe outside.
Weekend Photo 32
International Car Forest of the Last Church — 13 May 2017 — Goldfield, Nevada
Does a Self-Powered Refrigerator Make Sense for You?
ACOPower CREATED A LINE OF PORTABLE REFRIGERATORS powered by their own interchangeable lithium batteries. You can recharge the battery directly with solar panels, with AC shore power, or a vehicle’s 12V power port. And the battery’s USB ports can power other...
Good News for Nomads: RV Prices Are Tumbling
First, a story BACK IN COLLEGE I worked as a cook at a fish & chips joint. Since I had worked at a different location of the chain during high school, I was sufficiently experienced to act as an occasional junior assistant quasi-manager. So on the night of a...
Rig of the Week: Hand-Built Truck Camper
MANY PEOPLE KNOW LOU BROCHETTI as the guy with the cool vardo-style trailer he built himself. In his past life he had built hotrods, wooden boats, and experimental planes. He’s a skilled craftsman.Although Lou enjoyed nomadic life, what he really wanted was piece of...
Beware of the Scammers!
I'VE BEEN GETTING A BUNCH OF EMAILS from folks saying something like, “I just posted a comment on one of your videos, and you wrote me back and said to contact you on WhatsApp, or some other thing, and you had a gift to give me, or a prize, and all I had to do was...
Weekend Photo 31
Pond pleasure — 28 July 2017 — San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Bob Rebooted: What If Your Spouse Won’t Travel?
This article was originally published in November of 2016 ONE QUESTION I GET ALL THE TIME from married people is that the one writing me (equally often the man or woman) wants and needs to travel and be mobile, but the other partner does not. It’s tragic how often...
Something Is Better Than Nothing
I GREW UP among people who insisted perfection was the only acceptable goal. Anything even one molecule shy of perfection was a distant second—so distant it was indistinguishable from utter failure. Ironically (or predictably) the only thing these perfectionists did...