A historic essay in pictures by the late Paul C. Gilbert, chronicling the early days of the New Zealand phenomenon of do-it-yourself house trucks, which appeared on the roads around the mid-nineteen-seventies as part of an alternative lifestyle movement. The house-truckers were drawn to the alternative life and to the music festivals of the time, among them Nambassa in the late seventies and Sweetwaters in the early eighties.

Gilbert travelled with the grass-roots music and performance troupes in their convoys of hand-converted trucks, beginning with The Original Travelling Road Show and Mahana, as they journeyed through small communities and festivals around the North Island. His camera observes the road people intimately.