Ken Ilgunas
In this 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 masterâ€™s program at Duke University, determined not to borrow against his future again. He used the last of his savings to buy himself a used Econoline van and outfitted it as his new dorm. The van, stationed in a campus parking lot, would be more than an adventureâ€”it would be his very own ,Walden on Wheels.,Freezing winters, near-discovery by campus police, and the constant challenge of living in a confined space would test Ilgunasâ€™s limits and resolve in the two years that followed. What had begun as a simple mission would become an enlightening and life-changing social experiment.
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Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom