A California professor spent $5,000 building an 80-square-foot cabin on a shantyboat. Now he travels through America’s river communities on it every summer — here’s how he does it.

• Wes Modes, a professor and artist from California, spends his summers on 20-foot-long, 8-foot-wide shantyboat.
• Modes travels through river communities across the country and records the stories of the people who live in them.
• The construction of the boat began in 2012 and was completed in 2014, the year of Modes’ first expedition.
• In a tell-all interview with Business Insider, Modes explains how he built the boat from scratch and what life is like during these expeditions.
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