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Yuri’s Aluminum Nautilus

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Tiny House Talk always features some great stuff from out there on the web and today is no exception!

I won’t attempt to steal anyone’s thunder here so I’m just showing a few images of this great house and leaving the rest to the links.  This picture says it all:

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Click the image above to go to the builder’s web page.
Click the exterior image to see the great little write-up on Tiny House Talk.
Click the exterior image to see the great little write-up on Tiny House Talk.

And there’s even a short video of the very clever loft.

Way nicer than an RV, but still as portable.  The aluminum frame is a great idea and should keep it light and strong.

yuris-aluminum-tiny-house-project-0013Great job on this build and I’m so glad he shared this with the world.

Enjoy Your Right To Free Camping On BLM Public Lands

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Mobile Rik's avatarDIY Camping Hacks To Get Off The Grid

Is your budget feeling a bit stretched by the high cost of long-term camping?

Then you may be surprised to find out that there are huge areas of the American West where you can simply pull off the road and camp for free. And when I say “huge,” I mean HUGE!

All you have to do is look at your map to find areas marked as National Forest or BLM land, and you’ll see that they literally are everywhere. These lands are owned by the Federal Government. (BLM stands for the Bureau of Land Management). And you have the right as a citizen to politely pull off the road and set up camp, so long as there isn’t some local ordinance against it. It really is that easy.

Many of the cheap and free campgrounds listed on FreeCampsites.Net are within BLM or National Forest lands. Some are hardly more than…

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The American Dream

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“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.”

Edward Abbey

Now we relegate ourselves to be professional consumers who grudgingly toil to increase the status of those we will never really know.  We will argue, sometimes to the death, to keep “our” side of the elite, empowered over our every freedom.