so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things. 所以在做新闻记者的22年里，我知道了很多新奇的事物。

　　And three years ago, one of the things I learned how to do was to become invisible. 而三年前，我学会做的一件事就是变成隐形人。

　　I became one of the working homeless. 我成了一个无家可归的工作者。

　　I quit my job as a newspaper editor after my father died in February of that same year, and decided to travel. 我辞掉了报纸编辑的工作，在我父亲那年二月去世之后，我决定去旅行。

　　His death hit me pretty hard. And there were a lot of things that I wanted to feel and deal with while I was doing that. 他的去世对我打击非常大。当时这么做，是因为有很多我想去感知和处理的事。

　　I've camped my whole life. And I decided that living in a van for a year to do this would be like one long camping trip. 旅游时我天天都在露营。并且决定在休旅车里住一年，就当作是一段长期野营旅行。

　　So I packed my cat, my Rottweiler and my camping gear into a 1975 Chevy van, 所以，我就带上我的猫，我的罗特威尔犬和露营的装备，装载到1975产的雪佛莱旅游车上，

　　and drove off into the sunset, having fully failed to realize three critical things. 开车去看日落，但当时完全没想过三件严重的事。

　　One: that society equates living in a permanent structure, even a shack, with having value as a person. 一：社会将住房，即使是很小的房间，和人的价值等同起来。

　　Two: I failed to realize how quickly the negative perceptions of other people can impact our reality, if we let it. 二：我没有意识到其他人的负面言语对我们本身的影响是多么严重，假如我们放任不管。

　　And three: I failed to realize that homelessness is an attitude, not a lifestyle. 三：我没有意识到无家可归是一种生活态度，而不是一种生活方式。