If you grew up in modern industrial society like I did you were conditioned to seek out and respect authority. We were conditioned to want someone to tell you what to do. This is simply the way our educational systems are currently designed. That doesn't mean there aren't well-meaning people within those systems, but in the end most of us end up spending our lives looking for authorities to shape them. 

I like to call this system what I once heard Noam Chomsky call it: "the star system". Assign special value to certain "stars" and do whatever they do.

This is very comforting to us, being told what to do. It removes the burden of choice from our minds, and that can be a huge burden. 

If you're planning to live on the road though, this system is going to cease to work for you. There are not enough people doing this to have enough stars to assign things too.

If you're planning to live on the road, and I mean really live on the road, not just drive around for a few months posting selfies, which, if that's your goal (posting selfies), by all means, do it. I have nothing against people who treat life as a performance, but if you are this sort of person, the rest of this post is just going to make you uncomfortable and angry, so skip it. Here's [a cool place you can take a selfie](https://utah.com/zion-national-park/angels-landing){: rel=nofollow}, head for that instead.

The rest of us, those of us who are planning to live on the road full time because we don't for whatever reason, really fit into the various molds that are available for fitting into these days, have some work to do, unlearning that need or desire to give our decisions up to someone else, someone we think is a "expert". 

There's a good chance that you came here because you thought I was an expert. I do have some experience and I am always happy to share that (it's why this site exists really), but I am not an expert.

More importantly, we all need to stop looking for experts. We need to start being experts at our own lives. I wish there were some formula I could give you for becoming an expert in your own life, but there really isn't. Or rather there is, but it's so far outside the realm of acceptable discourse in our society I am not putting it on the internet. If you're really truly interested, email me and I will send you some links.