Living out of a car, truck bed, or van while traveling as a nomad.

Vanlife and Truck Living

*“All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everyone was doing all over the country.”*

—Jack Kerouac

*"There's nothing nobler than to put up with a few inconveniences like snakes and dust for the sake* *of absolute freedom."* 

— Jack Kerouac

Car Camping: Toyota Tacoma Truck Bed Setup | The Detour Effect

“*They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.*” 

— Jack Kerouac

Digital Nomad Guide to Working from Big Bend National Park | The Detour Effect

Jobs that Allow You to Solo Travel Full-Time as a Nomad | The Detour Effect

“*It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.*” 

— Henry David Thoreau

Guide to Visiting the Smoky Mountains as a Digital Nomad | The Detour Effect

*“There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue; my heart aches from the consciousness that I am working for money, and money is the centre of all I do.”* 

— Anton Chekhov

*“There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.”* 

— E.B. White

How to Work Remotely While Living Out of Your Car | The Detour Effect

*“It was like a movie all the time. Everybody around me was a great story that never stopped, and for the first time, I realized how much freedom you have to do what you want.”* 

— Daniel Johnston