I saw reference to this documentary about wheeled "full-timers" over on Good Luck Duck. The film is about mobile dwellers. Well, it's about some mobile dwellers with a certain perspective.
In order of appearance, the full-timers are:
- vagabloggers dot com (which provokes a warning from my browser when I attempt to go there)
- Randy Vinings at Mobile Kodgers
- Laurie Theodoro
- arizonaexplorations.com
- Chris Carrington
- Steve
- Cheri
Randy Vinings was inspired by Thoreau's Walden: "Why would you work all of your life so you could have a little bit of freedom at the end of your life, when, if you could live efficiently, you could invent your own life now?"
Laurie Theodoro also drew inspiration from Thoreau: "[what is] the essential of things .. what [is] the real marrow of life?"
I like the documentary in that it shows a viable way of living that many Americans may not know about. It's a way of living I could see myself doing some day.
Some of the most useful information came toward the end of the film - how much it cost to sustain oneself as a full-timer who lives in a wheeled shelter:
- Steven at arizonaexplorations.com --> ~ $500 per month
- Randy at mobilecodgers.blogspot.com --> less than $600 per month
- Cheri --> $630 per month
But sheesh, there's so much smug talk about the people who "don't get it" - who are prisoners of their stuff or their ball-and-chain houses. Overall, the documentary felt very didactic. A pity.
There's also a MAJOR piece of information that is only alluded to - the cost of purchasing and outfitting one's wheeled home. There was also silence on another important fact of mobile living - maintenance and repairs of one's vehicle-shelter. The cost of living like a turtle will vary widely, depending not only on the complexity and age of one's rig, but on the DIY abilities you have.
But I'll leave on a positive note from one of the full-timers: "Choose your life." Amen.
No comments:
Post a Comment