Car Living Your Way explains our Car Living Culture, and shows in detail how to live in your car for those who want to, or have to. Part I covers the basics of Car Living. Part II shows how others have done it. There is plenty of practical advice on how to live in a car with over 100 stories from actual Car-livers. There is a story for everyone!
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"A. J. Archer (Heim) wants eveyone who ever cranked back the driver's seat to be more comfortable doing it." -- Bandon Loomis, Salt Lake Tribune, 9/3/99
"Car living may not be such a bad idea. You can live where you like from day to day." -- Tom Sykes, Evening Standard, 4.19.2001
"For those who feel the call of adventure, it is exciting to see how others have met that challenge." -- Linda Baker, 10/99, Car Adventurist
"Car living may not be such a bad idea. You can live where you like from day to day." -- Tom Sykes, Evening Standard, 4.19.2001
"For those who feel the call of adventure, it is exciting to see how others have met that challenge." -- Linda Baker, 10/99, Car Adventurist
About the Author
A. J. (Archer) Heim has been researching Car Living for the past five years. She has previously written Car Living: How to Make It a Successful, Sane Safe Experience (Touchstone Adventures, 1999), and this is her second in-depth book. Articles about her work have appeared inprinte worldwide. She has been interviewed on numerous radio and television shows.
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This review is from: Car Living Your Way : Stories and Practical Tips From Those Who Have Been Down the Road (Paperback)
I have a history of living in cars several times (less than a month each time) well before this book was written. I see the book as a good way to consider the idea, if time is available to consider it. The whole thing is based on the actual experiences of car living people, organized by a writer to give it coherence. Organization counts here.
AJ Heim starts by considering the reasons people live in cars (or trucks, vans, etc.) and "mental preparation" for doing so. This is important for people who are considering car living as one choice among others. Part I continues with specifics of packing, parking, cleanliness and other important topics, winding up with a chapter on Feng Shui as related to car living. Part II contains the stories. The stories matter to me because (a) they show how the "parts" in Part I make "whole" stories of people and (b) they give the reader a chance to explore attitudes that work for living in cars. In short, the combination of AJ Heim's writing skill with the actual experiences of car living people makes a useful and interesting book.
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Good, but in desperate need of editing!!,
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This review is from: Car Living Your Way : Stories and Practical Tips From Those Who Have Been Down the Road (Paperback)
The overall material of this book is good and inforative. However, the anecdotes and first person accounts repeat over and over again in various bits and pieces in such a way that you're left with a constant feeling of deja vu as you make your way through the book. You're always thinking, "Have I already read this??" Im lead to wonder how this book was put together....was is pieced together from a series of articles?...is it regurgitated material from an earlier book?..that might make more sense. In any case you'll need a bookmark.
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Disappointing waste of money,
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This review is from: Car Living Your Way : Stories and Practical Tips From Those Who Have Been Down the Road (Paperback)
She reminds me of Amy Dascyzyn...the Frugal Zealot...Amy is a "Frugal Snob"...this chick is a "Gypsy Snob"...In her own words.."I was at the Country Club the other day, and shocked to discover a friend's daughter had lived in her car for a few months..." This book is for people who do this for kicks...you know, something to shock your friends with at the Country Club, or rather than jetting off to wherever...Not for the Rainbow Family, back-to-the-land types.
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In 1996, I realized that my image of those who live in their cars was totally wrong. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
car living, cargo van, dumpster diving Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dwelling Portably, Jim Spink, Feng Shui, New York, Safe Experience, Linda Turner, Car Live, David Moore, New Orleans, Santa Barbara, Bay Area, Joanne Baek, New Mexico, Sally Jessy Raphael, Captain Nemo, David Letterman, Laszlo Borbely, New Jersey, Bill Fargo, Carol Deppe, Christopher Finch, Laurelyn Baker, Phil Johnson, West Virginia, Abapa Freer New!
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In 1996, I realized that my image of those who live in their cars was totally wrong. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
car living, cargo van, dumpster diving Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dwelling Portably, Jim Spink, Feng Shui, New York, Safe Experience, Linda Turner, Car Live, David Moore, New Orleans, Santa Barbara, Bay Area, Joanne Baek, New Mexico, Sally Jessy Raphael, Captain Nemo, David Letterman, Laszlo Borbely, New Jersey, Bill Fargo, Carol Deppe, Christopher Finch, Laurelyn Baker, Phil Johnson, West Virginia, Abapa Freer New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Sally: Unconventional Success by Sally Jesse Raphael on page 210, and Back Matter
- Feng Shui: Harmony by Design by Nancy Santopietro on page 90, and Back Matter
- All Sickness Is Home Sickness by Dr. Dianne M. Connelly on page 215, and Back Matter
- Vans and the Truckin' Life by Terry Cook in Back Matter
- Customizing Your Van by Allen Girdler in Back Matter
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- 505 Weirdest Online Stores by Dan Crowley on page 324
- Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter by Lloyd Kahn on page 183
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