(While most readers don’t seem to begrudge traveling bloggers compensation for the work they do, it’s easy to see how ads running on minimalist, anti-consumerist sites might sometimes seem off-key. On Cheap RV Living, for example, a post called “Getting Rid of Stuff” with a quote from Bertrand Russell—“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly”—strikes an odd chord positioned beside a column of Amazon links flogging such products as a twelve-volt portable stove and a “luggable loo” toilet seat.)
