Chloe And Brandon Used Old Movie Sets To Create A Marvelous Mobile Home...

Chloe Barcelou and Brandon Batchelder decided to build themselves a house on wheels with a difference, and where better they thought, to obtain some extraordinary ideas and materials than from some movie sets they'd worked on.
They spent a couple of months designing their home, being greatly influenced by old ships, railroad cars, stage coaches and gypsy caravans and then another nine months or so building their creative theatrical masterpiece.
All the world's their stage...

It's A Big Bold And Beautiful Blue Housebus...

It's a big bold and beautiful blue housebus
and it's been traveling around the net for a while and perhaps the roads of the US even longer.
Well Mr Sharkey, ladies and gentlemen.
Who knows what when and where...

Richart Sowa Lives On An Island He Made Himself From 150,000 Plastic Bottles...

No man is an island and very few of us
have one of their own but eco-architect Richart Sowa knowing full well he'd never have the money to buy one, decided to make his own.
Out of 150,000 air-filled recycled plastic bottles, lots of wooden pallets and sand.
He's build a three-storied house that has all the mod-cons he desires and a little ferry raft also made from plastic bottle to ferry himself and his supplies to and from the shore.
Power comes from a land based solar system, he has a composting toilet and the desire to grow his own vegetables and to be self sufficient
Named Joyxee, the island moored off Cancun in Mexico is Richart's third island, his story is here and the British born Robinson Crusoe didn't find his Girl Friday by her footprints in the sand but on a social media site.
How things change but nothing changes...

When You're Serious About Solar For Your Off Grid Home On Wheels...

The Colorado based owner of this once upon a time 1990 Chevrolet school bus was determined to create a vehicle to live in for extended periods of time off grid. It looks like he succeeded.
The fourteen German Sun brand 130 watt panels that are tilted manually, feed eighteen 105amphour Trojan batteries. All that combines with an Outback brand control system.
There's more about this bus here.
With solar, there's no such thing as overkill...

This Beautiful 1951 Bedford Housetruck Maid Of Dreams Could Be Yours...

Jill and Rob's 1951 Bedford Housetruck
Maid Of Dreams is one of the most beautiful traditionally styled housetrucks you'll see anywhere in the world today.
It featured here a while ago and now after many happy years of travelling around New Zealand, it's now someone else's turn to enjoy this remarkable and unique Gypsy Housetruck.
And live the dream.
There's more information about this wonderful grand old lady of the road here.
If you can dream it you can do it...

This Young Family Living Their Dream In A Caravan Are Having The Time Of Their Lives...

Jessica and Aaron have been on the road in their funky little caravan for a few months.
They could have waited as most people do before they followed their dream but they didn't.
They wanted to escape the rat race and they knew how important it was to live in the now.
They wanted quality time together and to grow as a family. It wasn't that they could really afford to financially but they decided that they couldn't afford not to. Finances they decided, had little
to do with their chosen way of life.
Giving their gorgeous little girls Ayla six and Skye five a life worth living was what they desired. They wanted a quality life and they wanted to be together.
Chasing the dollar to pay for a mortgage was not for them. They were not going to live lives of quiet desperation thankyou Mr Thoreau.
Home schooling takes up an important part of the day and then there's the rest of it which invariably turns into an adventure.
Aaron, a sought after Sommelier is able to get work at top restaurants and so they may be in one place for a time while he replenishes
the family purse.
Jessica, a graphic artist in another life, now makes children's clothes and beautiful wedding dresses which she sells in New Zealand
and overseas.
They've dreamed of a life worth living.
They're living their dream...

Tempting Tiny Towable Travelhomes...

When the tempation gets too much and the travelbug is just too tantalising and all you have is a tiny towing vehicle, all you need really is a small amount of imagination to get you from here to there.
Or anywhere else.
If you can dream it you can do it...

Three Months On The Road In Their Tiny Home On Wheels And Loving It...

I caught up with Nina and Mike the other day. They're full of enthusiasm for the new lifestyle they've been dreaming about since meeting, marrying and living in Nina's home country of Germany for a number of years.
Now they're in Mike's New Zealand and already have been on the road in their little bohemian housetruck for three months.
They're learning all about simplifying.
They're loving the lifestyle and living the dream...

Lonnie Bissonnette Is Confined To A Wheelchair. He Can't Walk But Just Watch Him Jump...

Forty eight year old base-jumper Lonnie Bissonnette isn't letting the fact he can't walk or use his left arm stop him from enjoying life to the fullest. And then some.
Despite the injuries he incurred on a previous base-jump, Lonnie continues with his favourite stunts which these days include bungee-jumping from bridges, being piggybacked off the edge of cliffs or wearing a wing suit and flying at speeds up to 80 miles per hour before releasing his parachute. Go for it Lonnie.
If you can dream it, you can do it...

Hitching Your Tiny Home To A Bicycle...

A bit like hitching your wagon to a star really.
It's also like taking a dream and, if you're fit enough, making it happen.
Take a simple concept and keep it that way.
A fun way of living and going further for less.
The reality is that it wouldn't be that easy to ride a bicycle towing a little home but, it is possible.
Anything is...