A bit off from what you want, but for an extreme - see Steve Roberts's book "Computing Across America". In the 1980s he outfitted a bicycle with computers and solar collectors and so on and set out to ride all around the US.
His current project is setting up a sailboat to live on; he blogs about it here http://www.nomadness.com/blog/ . The book gives a lot more detail than he does online; he has also done other projects and sells books about them from his older web page http://microship.com/ .
His current project is setting up a sailboat to live on; he blogs about it here http://www.nomadness.com/blog/ . The book gives a lot more detail than he does online; he has also done other projects and sells books about them from his older web page http://microship.com/ .