On this episode of TVP, we continue our van nomadism series. So, you’ve got your vehicle, you’ve converted it into your mobile home, and you still have your full-time job in the servile society. How much money does this lifestyle cost? How do you make the money necessary to live…
Tag: Van Nomadism
On this episode of The Vonu Podcast, we continue our series on van nomadism. Last week, we told you what considerations to take into account when choosing a vehicle to liveaboard. Let’s say you’ve bought your dream vehicle, gutted the living space and ready to convert it into your mobile…
On this episode of The Vonu Podcast, we continue our miniseries on van nomadism and what better place to start the self-liberational media than by discussing how to choose a vehicle for living aboard. You should begin by asking yourself these three questions: What is the purpose? Are you moving…
On this episode of The Vonu Podcast, we begin a new miniseries on van nomadism, the first vonu strategy Rayo pursued back in the 1960s. To cover the philosophy behind it and case studies of practitioners in one shot, we decided to introduce this miniseries by playing the audio from…
Hey ya’ll, Shane here. I’ve got some pretty big news for you. As regular listeners will know, my preferred vonu strategy was and is minimalist sailboating — in other words, I want to sell all of my shit, buy a boat, and traverse the high seas. The only problem? I…
Learning about Rayo’s pursuit of vonu has obviously been great and highly valuable. We have sure learned a ton and have gleaned a lot of insight as to how we are going about our own personal pursuit of this freedom strategy. We hope you have too. New to vonu? START…
On this season two episode of The Vonu Podcast, Kyle and Shane cover one of the most under-developed possibilities of vonu: vonuing in cities. Most of the potential solutions we’ve discussed so far have included strategic relocation and/or radical lifestyle changes that may not appeal to some. New to vonu?…
It’s finally here–VONULIFE, March 1973! This lengthy, highly informative publication is over 75,000 words (TWICE the length of Vonu: The Search for Personal Freedom), and contains ~35 articles, about 15 or so of them BRAND NEW to us from Rayo. It even includes a foreword by yours truly (Shane) and…
Below, you will find another publication from the big batch we recently acquired–this one being Going Mobile, a terrific and highly valuable collection of articles, especially so for those pursuing nomadic lifestyles. Herein, you can learn the basics about living such a lifestyle, van conversions, letters from those living in such…
Editor’s Note: The following is an article from Going Mobile, a libertarian publication that was put out in the 1960s-1970s. It was published/edited by Rayo & Roberta, and the focus of the articles is nomadic lifestyles. In the below piece, Rayo discusses the psychological aspects of living as a van…
Van nomadism (a.k.a van dwelling) was a popular strategy for vonuans early on and is even quite popular today among folks from different ideological persuasions–a quick YouTube search will garner hundreds if not thousands of results. That is the subject of today’s episode of The Vonu Podcast. Herein, Shane and…
Recently, I received a physical copy of VONULIFE, March 1973 and have been in the process of digitizing this 80,000+ word publication. As expected, it’s taking some time, but I figured I’d drop you another sneak peek. This article is by Al Fry, one of the main editors of VONULIFE,…
Rayo and others like him were often scolded by major figures within libertarianism, such as Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK3) and Murray Rothbard. The former called vonuans “anarcho-zionists,” or, in other words, individuals seeking out the promise land of liberty; the latter called vonuans “retreatists”, meaning that they weren’t willing…