So I'm getting a campervan together and saving up some money and just getting living on wheels. Who else lives on wheels and can provide some good advice for all the logistical things. How to make money if the store gets low? Insurance will always need to get paid and people can help out on gas, what else can be done? And furthermore what is the difference between living a nomadic lifestyle in a industrial society like america today and just being homeless? My fear is that what was meant to be a change in lifestyle will end up me losing my van and having no work and no food and no money in hte middle of nowhere. How do all these other traveling communes do it? This even digs in a little more, if many of us talk about a yearning to get outside the capitalist constructs of our society, is the easiest way to do that working part time and going out rainbow festivals the other half? is the only way to live off the land to get a good stockpile of money first? Anything helps.
they do it by lowering their standards way down. Those kinds of people eat what others discard and also smell bad.
I've lived out of vans a lot over the years. The most important thing - parking up for the night somewhere that you can open the door in the morning and piss without an audience.
Hey Brother Eremais, You know, you don't have to piss out the door and you don't have to stink. It is a choice of how you want to live. Myself, I stay clean and I have indoor plumbing and bathroom in my camper van. My blog is rather new, but I am adding to it when I get a chance, and I have some links on there of other van dwellers you can check out. 2 Dogs has been doing it for nearly 25 years, and Sonja for just a couple. Here are those links if you would like to take a look sometime. http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=408491 Simple Stress Free Lifestyle Take care, and I hope you enjoy living the Simple Stress Free Lifestyle that van dwelling can offer. Bernie
Great idea. You probably need someone land based to assist you with bill-paying and mail...a trusted friend or relative. Then I would think an assessment of what skills you have. Can you fix things? Carpentry? Web-design? Gardener? Can teach boat repair or tile-setting or motorcycle repair or make rain barrels or do treasure-hunting seminars with a metal detector...and then use guerrilla marketing techniques to advertise on bulletin boards, Craigslist etc. Wherever you go seek out bulletin boards at the local store or post office ...LOTS can be learned about what's in demand by seriously studying bulletin boards in a small community...is it horse-country? Can you make leather-goods or buy and sell horse tack or advertise services...Any number of things... rural areas usually have some grant-funded computer center funded by say Verizon at the local bank building or community center or if you have a laptop even country restaurants now have free wi-fi (some do at least...I know I live in the Virginia countryside). Definitely go on the Help Exchange website and trade a parking space and some amenities like electricity, water etc. for a few hours assisting some homestead with caring for animals, gardens etc. I am VERY familiar with this and am involved as we speak...this works well. And could give you a base of operations...a safe place to live ... a huge subject for sure. Best of luck.
