November 2025 HOWA’s first Mentoring Camp, held on BLM land in Pahrump, Nevada, ran from October 25 – November 2, 2025. The purpose of the camp is to match experienced mentors with new nomads for a week of learning and community building. Each mentor guides a group of four or Read more…
The first ever Boondocking Skills Camp featured nearly two weeks of immersion into off-grid living in a vehicle. The participants arrived at a location in northeastern Arizona near the Petrified National Forest ready to take care of their most basic needs while living out of their vehicles. The vehicles ranged Read more…
The first Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, held in 2011, was initiated by Bob Wells as a boot camp and support system to help people and to inspire them to happily embrace the mobile life instead of struggling to survive. Fifteen years and thousands of attendees later the RTR’s core mission remains Read more…
Ever since the first Rubber Tramp Rendezvous was held in Arizona in 2011, there’s been a desire by both HOWA and eastern nomads to have a similar gathering in the east. The obstacles for a large gathering are many, from a shortage of suitable dispersed camping areas to the lack Read more…
11/28/2024 Thank you donors! The HOWA Emergency fund, founded in August 2019, has now provided over $100,000 to nomads in need! More than 300 nomads were able to stay in their homes on wheels after they received help to pay for repairs. When the scope or nature of the repairs Read more…
05/13/2024
Since the first clean-up in early 2022, desert clean-ups have become a recurring event as circumstances permit. They’re held in…