Walden on Wheels
On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom
by Ken Ilgunas · first published 2013
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In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a 3-year transcontinental journey, working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to pay off his student loans before hitchhiking home to New York. Debt-free, Ilgunas then enrolled in a master's program at Duke University, determined not to borrow against his f
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Read about this in 2009, [1, 2]. Anyways, looks like he has a new book out about his journey, called Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom [3]. If you search google for Ken Ilgunas looks like there is a full court press about it. [1] http://www.salon.com/2009/12/07/living_in_a_van/ [2] http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes/duke-grad-school-o...…
on “Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt” ↗…seeing and feeling a lot of these individual topics before, so it's nice when they all come together to really shine light on the situation. I've got 2 links related to this: - Ken Ilgunas wrote a book "Walden on Wheels" about living in a van to avoid graduate school debt (after working hard to pay off his undergraduate debt). I haven't read the book, but from his blog, he's a good writer and adventurer. http://www.amazon.com/Walden-Wheels-Open-Road-Freedom/dp/054...…
on “Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal” ↗