You live where?! When home is a plane or a cruise ship

By Jessica Severin de Martinez,

Megan Fitzgerald, Robyn Doyon-Aitken , Chion Wolf

Published March 27, 2026 at 9:15 AM EDT

Bruce Campbell lives in a Boeing 727 Jet, in a woods, in Hillsboro, Oregon. It cost him a $ 100,000 in a deal with a scrap dealer. The jet has come almost full circle, being built in 1969 at the Boeing factory in Everett , Washington, 190 miles away. The Greek airline Olympic bought the plane in 1970 and it flew for nearly 40 years, The plane was used to transport the remains of the airline's owner, Aristotle Onassis in 1975. The late Greek-Argentinian shipping magnate was married to former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at the time of his death. In 2004 Bruce Campbell completed the deal and the plane was shipped to him in Portland in many parts that he has fastidiously reassembled photographed June 18 2012 Hillsboro, Oregon.

What kind of person looks at a Boeing 727 and thinks, yes, I should live there? Or boards a cruise ship and decides never to go back to a traditional home?

Bruce Campbell is a 76-year-old engineer and pilot who has spent more than 25 years living in a retired jetliner in the Oregon woods.

Angelyn and Richard Burk are a married couple who turned loss, an enthusiasm for minimalism, and a love of travel into an everyday existence at sea.

They share wisdom about home, routine, freedom, minimalism, and staying put.

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Bruce Campbell: 76-year-old engineer who has lived in a retired Boeing 727 in the woods of Hillsboro, Oregon, since 1999. He welcomes visitors from around the world into the airplane home he built after deciding a conventional house no longer made sense for him
Angelyn and Richard Burk: Married couple from the Seattle area who have been living as cruise nomads since 2021. After losing all their belongings in a moving-truck fire in 2013, they embraced minimalism and now spend much of the year making cruise ships their home

Jessica Severin de Martinez, Meg Fitzgerald, and Robyn Doyon-Aitken contributed to this show, with help from interns divina cordeiro and Megan Rodriguez-Hawkins.

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