It's ready!
The latest & most complete assembly of Everything I Know About Living In a Vehicle, both "on the road" and "back to the land" is now available in a no-paper computer document with 91 pages of first hand experience and advice. 
"Everything I Know About Living In a Vehicle"  
From planning and purchasing the right vehicle to building it out and moving in, with lifestyle tips and anecdotes for life "on the road" AND "on the land", I put all my years of Van Dwelling in here (and a lot of info from being in & around RVs and buses) so you have a guidebook towards a viable alternative lifestyle. Especially important these days... you might find yourself needing some of this info!

UPCOMING PROJECT:
VanDweller's Old Vans & New Plans ~ a great little package of an hour long discussion on CD-R about vehicle selection, conversion and some lifestyle tips, along with a packet of diagrams, van layouts & sources and a second CD-R of music & songs written & recorded out on the road. 


The old car projects:
Though not as clean or efficient as modern vehicles, keeping a good-running and useable old car on the road is a good thing. To me it's continuing the service life of something already made, in many cases made here in the US... it takes a lot of energy & resources to actually make & transport all these new plastic complex efficient cars, and much of the money goes to grossly inefficient corporate coffers, rich white men in ties that could care less about any of us or this planet, and parts-making countries with governments with human rights issues (who cares if I can buy cheap stuff, right? Bleargh, I vomit at you), and things like that can't be ignored as part of the big picture. For homesteading purposes, my 74 Dodge truck has been the best tool I ever bought, with no payments, cheap insurance, and its operating cost has been practically negligible. A simple, durable old vehicle is as part of the homesteading life as organic tomatoes and recycling. The real answer is to drive less - and to use less - not necessarily to turn simple systems that work into expensive, state-of-the-art "efficient" stuff you can't fix and that it harms the world to make. I'm not saying they shouldn't happen or that you shouldn't drive one; just that you shouldn't get on my case about not funding it. Plus, old cars are fun! Here are some projects for you gearhead types:

Beauty ~ 1967 Plymouth Valiant restoration.
The Beast ~ 1973 Dodge Dart Sport hot rod 
Joe the Truck ~ 1974 Dodge D100, friend and noble steed, workhorse and best tool I've ever bought.
Johnny's Truck ~ 1978 Chevrolet "Big 10" pickup resurrection.
The Magnum ~ 1978 Dodge Magnum. Yes, the "real" Magnum. 

What's with all the shitboxes?
1969 Dodge Dart
The Chinook Diaries (one man's attempt to fix a couple of things in an old motorhome...)


The VanDweller pages:
Yes, that was me, THE "VanDweller." I wrote this book called "Nomadic Notations" in the '90s and published it myself - it went far and wide. It's fun to see one's pseudonym become a noun in Nomad culture; it's not so fun when other folks' "work" looks real familiar and some even recite your own words verbatim on YouTube as their own brilliant ruminations. But hey, it's not like I invented any of this or pioneered anything 'cept being "VanDweller" online real early. I was a nomad on 99 cent gas and have written about it. You can take a man off the road but you can never take the road out of the man. Anyhow, here's where the rest of the living on wheels stuff is, and I'll get some archive stuff up too.

Step van motorhome conversion ~ 1982 Chevrolet P20, latest in a long line of little rolling homes. Doing this one up right!