When the term 'grey nomad' was first coined it was meant to describe a carefree life of well funded post-retirement travel.





But journalist Jessica Bruder has uncovered a new kind of grey nomad on the American highways. Unlike their peers, these people have no money in the bank and no family home to return to. For them, there is no retirement. Just the continual search for low wage jobs that can keep them going until they die.

Bruder says it's "a demographic that in recent years has grown with alarming speed: downwardly mobile older Americans."





She spent three years on the road with these 'houseless' Americans and tells their stories in her new book.