Take your home on the road, and turn your wanderlust into action Praise for previous edition: "A perfect guide."--Anchorage Daily News "Honest, insightful advice."--Northeast Outdoors "If any of our family or friends were contemplating becoming fulltime RVers, the first thing I would give them is this book."--Camping & RV Since its first edition in the early 1980s, Living Aboard Your RV has been the bible for those who want to pick up and hit the...

Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation;...

Employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects,...