"I've been living in my tiny home for about five years now, five years this month."
"What contemplative and mystics over the ages claimed to have found is that there is an alternative to live in it at the mercy of the next neurotic thought that comes careening into consciousness."
"Getting off the central grid, getting your own food supply - these are like endemic Solutions."
"I just want to show them something different, a different way of life, and, you know, not set the okay, 'This is what you're supposed to do,' and just set them in a box."
"Living your life as an example to people that are looking for an alternative is a really powerful thing"
"Life is short. If you want to live in a yurt, yurt it up."
"You can still have a stationary nine-to-five job and live in a van... where you go after your day's work doesn't really matter to anybody."
"Living van life is just a much more intentional way to live and I love it."
"You can quit your job and start farming. Here's Joel Salatin, the master himself, for some inspiration and know-how."
"We've been living an unconventional but fulfilling life of challenge and adventure."
"It's nice to create an alternative but also just having a blast, not really caring or giving a hell."
"Nature healing programs are real. It allows you to recenter in another way of living; and especially being around animals, whether it's equine therapy, or being with wolves."
"But in the Kink world it's called pup space or puppy space. It's like being on drugs, everything kind of melts around except for you and your partner."
"Living in the van is a totally different adventure."
"Burning Man is the last stand for the human spirit."
"It's an alternative mindset, an alternative community."
"We just love being able to share this lifestyle with people and hopefully spark a little thought of maybe doing something slightly different and changing their life so they can live their purpose or follow their dreams too."
"If she didn't sail, we'd probably be in a field right now, herding sheep or something like that."
"Living an alternative lifestyle that includes other people and traveling the world."
"There's more to the story than just systems, than just poultry, than just pastured poultry pen and chickens following cow one here. He totally quit his job to start farming."
"The best thing we can do is band together, work on ourselves, get out of cities, homeschool our kids, have more kids, grow your own food, start your own business, and just try and starve out the cult."
"I'm just trying to show them like hey there's a better way."
"Exploring alternative approaches to life, embracing unconventionality."
"I would rather build my own mud hut in the middle of the woods."
"I feel like the experiences you make like building your tiny house and living in your tiny house far outweigh being like 'oh it's not a conventional sized house.'"
"But rather than racing to keep up, the truly hip person today can zero in on what it’s really all about: searching for an alternative way of life, beyond taste, that lives up to your ideals."
"Home to perhaps the best country in the world for Americans fleeing the US. Americans in search of the new American Dream. You might have heard of it. It's called Portugal."
"...you take the intentional community and it's like okay now you're kind of free of that."
"This place is incredible; it's simple and it's an entirely different way of life than you'll find everywhere else."
"My message really is to show folks that there's another way to live your life without the struggle."
"If this doesn't work out, I'll move to Guatemala, start a permaculture farm, just live off the land and chill."
"It's a wonderful lifestyle, I personally adore it, but it's definitely like hard work and it's definitely not for everyone."
"It's officially Christmas now, it's December, we're spending Christmas in the van this year."
"Alternative people end up working harder because they feel like they have to prove themselves."
"We ended up in this lifestyle because we were both working nine to five traditional jobs... and we knew we wanted to travel and see everything that this country has to offer."
"Live like a hippie as you stay in bungalows and tree houses alongside one of the best beaches in Turkey."
"I call it the hippie place because they've got a lot of organic and natural options."
"There is life outside of that way of life, there is life outside of learning about pleasing some leader or being worthy to some standard."
"In that house lives a family who decided to leave the routine and the efforts of the big city to settle in a corner of the world where the only reality that exists is the one that they decide to live."
"I am a hippie and I believe in energy."
"I'm a little bit of a punk rocker at heart."
"We could always go off and live in a yurt and have a different existence."
"It's like a new earthy thing the hippies are doing these days."
"The whole thing about the 60s was that people were dissatisfied with the way their lives were going, so the hippies showed an alternative way."