Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom Ilgunas Ken
Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom Ilgunas Ken In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with…
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Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom Ilgunas Ken
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. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a three-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 future again. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible.
The van, stationed in a campus parking lot, would be more than an adventure--it would be his very own "Walden on Wheels."Freezing winters, near-discovery by campus He used the last of his savings to buy himself a used Econoline van and outfitted it as his new dorm.