There's a converted horse trailer furnished with Victorian antiques that is used at Burning Man.

A $200,000 Land Rover and a $300 pickup truck camper shell. There's a converted school bus that is used in both cold weather for skiing, and in warm climates (such as Baja California) for surfing. There are a number of camper truck shells, all completely different. There is a European minivan outfitted by a young German woman who just graduated from architectural school and took a sabbatical to go surfing. There are dozens of floor plans, all sorts of sleeping arrangements, and some unique 'stealth vehicles' - designed to be under the radar, so that passers-by have no idea that someone is sleeping in a parked vehicle. These owner builders describe their homes, provide photos and share their secrets. The book is not only fun to browse through, but is full of practical information (such as stoves, heaters, battery charging, solar power, refrigerators, and kitchens designed for the road) - for anyone wanting to create their own movable home. A number of the units are 4-wheel drive for off-road travel. There are vans, sedans, trucks, buses, and trailers with a wide array of designs and styles. This book focuses on DIY vehicles, with most of the 80 or so shown here fitted out for the road by their owners, similar to the way that the homes in all of Shelter's building books were built by hand, by the owners. If you search for 'van' on Instagram, you find scores of accounts such as #projectvanlife, with 1.2 million followers #vanlifecamper 472,000 followers, or #fosterhunting, 930,000 followers.

In the last few years, either for reasons of practicality (high costs of rent or mortgages), change in lifestyle, or the search for adventure, people are customizing all sorts of vehicles for travel. If there's not a nomadic revolution going on today, there's certainly a nomadic movement.

Home Work by Lloyd Kahn