Before we start the reviews, let's begin by reviewing the reviewer. I remember damned little of my high school book review skills, except that in order to have your book review reviewed by the instructor, you had to read the book, or at least know enough about the book to make your review read as if you had read the book. So, no e-mail reviewing my prowess at reviewing these books, OK, I did read them! Let me assure you that there are no online Cliff Notes on these tomes.

Some Turtles Have Nice Shells is the first domestic book published in the last 20 years that deals with house trucks and buses, and if there is a silver lining to waiting all  that time for something new, it's that this is the Mother Lode of photographic gold.

Rolling Homes is THE classic bus and truck picture book. This might be the only place you ever get to see any of it!

Home Free. Were this book published in the United States, it would soon become the new standard for house trucks and buses. An insightful and interesting window into the life and vehicles of New Zealand's mobile lifestyle crowd.

Roll Your Own is an earlier and less well-known book concerning alternative mobile living.

Home on the Road reaches waaay back to the earliest days of "bicycle camping" to show how outdoors recreational living evolved into what is now the commercial RV industry. Along the way, house cars, early converted buses, and the 'hippy cabin truck' moved the genre along to it's present state. Recommended reading for finding the roots of housetrucking.

Homes on Wheels was written by a Rutgers University Chairman who studied mobility in the American lifestyle. Give it a look.

Select and Convert your Bus Into a Motorhome On a Shoestring will be a valuable asset to anyone considering purchasing a bus to use as a conversion vehicle. This booklet answers many of the questions that I get asked frequently about selecting, buying and converting a bus.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test has GOT to be the definitive work chronicling the 1960's 'Hippie Movement'. Tom Wolfe brings together all aspects of the culture from the East Coast to San Francisco. All of that AND it includes a bus. What more could you ask?

Wanderings is a monthly periodical from New Zealand, where Housetrucks are alive and well, thank you. The first year's anniversary issue of this magazine has just been printed and mailed. Subscription information is included for those who wish to remain current with the comings and goings of Road Folk internationally, through this mag.

Some of these books are still available through your public library, or can be found in used book stores or garage sales. As there has been very little published lately on the subject, I can only fall back on what are 'single printing only' books, which are difficult to find and in some cases command a high purchase price when they are to be found.

Now that I have started this, I feel like I've opened Pandora's Books, as additional titles worthy of review come to mind, such as Shelter, Over the Road, and A Pattern Language. If time permits, this section will be much expanded in the near future.