Vandwelling: A Path to Escape Society's Abuse
This society is so abusive we need to find a path to escape it. Living in a car, van or RV (vandwelling) is an excellent way to do that. We have a thread going on my forum that is so interesting and important I want to share some of it with you. First, I'm going to...
Sensationalism About the Homeless in National Forest
There is a New York Times Newspaper article going around the net that has thrown a lot of people into confusion and fear. Numerous people have sent me the link and asked me if I thought this was the end of our way of life--vandwelling on Public Land. They told me...
A New Life in Oregon
After my time in Steamboat Springs it was time for a new direction in my summer travels. I had planned to spend the rest of the summer in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming, But all my plans came to a sudden screeching halt because of two events and instead I...
Dispersed Camping at Steamboat Springs
After Randy and his group left Leadville for Salida, Colorado, I knew we had a record-setting heat wave coming so I liked the idea of staying up at high elevation. I decided to start working my way north so my next stop was Steamboat Springs, Colorado. I had camped...
Using Shade Cloth in the Desert
In my last post I gave you some ideas on how to stay cool in a van using Reflectix and an ADCO windshield cover to keep the heat from getting into the van at all. In today's post I want to give you an example of how you can use shade cloth around your van to stay cool...
10 Ways a Vandweller Can Stay Cool in the Heat
By far the hardest part of living in a van is coping with summer heat--it can be miserable!! If you live in a city and stealth park there is virtually nothing you can do but look for and try to park in the shade whenever you can. Even the noise of running a Fantastic...
Big Baby Changes his Mind
It was just last week that I posted a tentative travel plan for my summer travels, and in today’s post I’m going to do something totally bizarre and throw them all out and start over from scratch!! What!! Why would I do such a crazy thing?! Very simple, the first line...
Summer Travel Plans
If you've been reading my blog for long, you know I like to lay out my tentative travel plans for the summer so if there are any of you readers (or viewers of the videos) who would like to join me, you can do so. Since many of these areas are new to me, I'm also...
Moving Camp to Pahrump, NV
Generally I can stay in my Ehrenberg, AZ winter camp until sometime in March when it will start getting hotter than I like, but this year, because of El Nino, the heat came early. Starting in February it was pushing up into the high 80s very often and even hitting 90...
Report from Rubber Tramp Rendezvous 2016
We're one week into the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous (RTR) 2016 and I can honestly say it's probably the best yet! The turn out has been huge (somewhere around 150 vandwellers/RVers) and like always the people are some of the best I've ever known! Every person I've met...
Workcamping as a Campground Host in a National Forest
In my last post I pointed out 8 different kinds of workcamping jobs but today I want to focus on the one that I think will work for the most people because 1) it has among the lowest physical demands, 2) pays you for every hour you work, 3) provides a free campsite,...
Workcamping Jobs for Nomads
With the RTR coming up I’ve arranged the timing of it so there is a very good chance that you can get a summer job there, so before it gets here I thought we should talk about Workcamping. This will be a two-part post, in this one we’ll have an overview of the most...