I lived in a garage for a summer in Bellingham WA.  I also lived in a dude ranch double wide property owners horses would 'knock' on my kitchen window I'd stock bags of apples basically only for them, Oso Washington was wiped off the map major major mud slide in the Stillaguamish valley. And then there was a 9 month journey of a lifetime at age 27 just myself and a mutt living out of a 1970 VW Bus that I converted the back end into a nice sleeper, had a 6 foot crank back moonroof that leaked like a sieve inside the van.  Washington, Oregon, and CA coasts down to San Fran, then down the Sierras into Nevada and Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.  Hit a bunch of Anastasi ruins.  We lived off the fat of the land (produce stands/wineries) and just ROAMED BABY, stealing WIFI signals, losing and finding cell signals, showers in State Parks, squating in coastal 'free camp sites' that only locals generally knew about, HAD A BLAST.  Anywhere one can lay one's head is HOME, small big otherwise!!