Brian Ernest Brown

“Koviashuvik is an Inuit word that means “time and place of joy in the present moment.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

“Inevitably bouts with obstacles offer discouragement as you cut every tether holding you from freedom.”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves . . . Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.”
― Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

“While living in the van started off as an experiment, it was clear to me that it was a way of life I’d never truly leave.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom