Tools for the Road

This week in my newsletter The Perennial Nomad: For Those Who Wander with Intent I discuss what you’ll need to set out on a road adventure. It’s probably less than you think!

We’re assuming that you have the mind and heart of a perennial nomad and you’re waiting like a runner at the starting line for the right moment to take off. What do you need in the way of material items to assist you in your journey? It varies from person to person, of course, but we’ll assume you need a few things at least to make life not just bearable but enjoyable. Not many people would be willing to imitate Jack Reacher in the TV series and the Lee Child novels, who travels from place to place with nothing more than the clothes on his back – not even a change of underwear, or Saint Francis in the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon, who wants none of his former attachments and so strips down in the town square and leaves his parents’ home and the town of Assisi buck naked. The nomadic lifestyle is often simple, and sometimes even stark, but in my experience it is also usually comfortable and occasionally even luxurious.

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