| | | | Part One |
| 1 | | | The Squeeze Inn |
| | Linda | May | A campground host. |
| | Audra | | Linda's daughter. |
| | Collin | | Audra's husband. |
| | Julian | | Linda's grandson. |
| | Gabbi | | Linda's granddaughter. |
| | Coco | | One of Linda's dogs. |
| | Rudy | | A handyman. |
| | Silvianne | Delmars | Linda's friend. |
| | Layla | | Silvianne's cat. |
| | Randy | Vining | A writer. |
| | Anne | LaBastille | American author and ecologist. |
| | Greg | Villalobos | One of the campground hosts from California Land Management. |
| | Cathy | Villalobos | One of the campground hosts from California Land Management. |
| | Eric | Mart | President of California Land Management. |
| | John C. | Heil III | A press officer of The Forest Service. |
| | Peter Jones | Perry | A dachshund. |
| | Shih | Tzu | A dog. |
| 2 | | | The End |
| | Doodle | | One of Linda's dogs. |
| | Don | Laughlin | Owner of the Riverside Casino. |
| | Dale | | Riverside Casino's general manager. |
| | Michael | Reynolds | American architect based in New Mexico. |
| | Dr. | Seuss | American children's writer and illustrator. |
| | Antoni | Gaudi | Spanish architect. |
| | Dennis | Weaver | American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. |
| | Jay | Leno | American comedian. |
| | Brian | Gubb | Director of Operational Solutions . |
| 3 | | | Surviving America |
| | Anna Marie | Marks | An employee in the factory lab testing Sheetrock. |
| | Tonia | Lynch | A factory supervisor. |
| | Aaron | Constable | A factory's maintenance foreman. |
| | Mike | Spihlman | A gypsum plant's manager. |
| | William C. | Foote | The Gypsum CEO. |
| | Calvin | Ryle | The quality control supervisor. |
| | Tom | Anderson | A full-time electrician. |
| | Dan | Moran | A former supply chain manager. |
| | Monina | Baker | Former employee of Empire. |
| | Don | Wheeler | A former jet-setting software executive. |
| | Rizzo | | Don Wheeler's Jack Russell terrier. |
| | Warren | Meyer | President of Recreation Resource Management. |
| | Al | Jazeera | Qatari television broadcaster. |
| | Jeff | Bezos | CEO of Amazon. |
| | Donna | Bonnett | One of CamperForce prospective employees. |
| | Joyce | Cooley | One of CamperForce prospective employees. |
| | Carol | Petty | One of CamperForce prospective employees. |
| | George | Nelson | One of CamperForce prospective employees. |
| | Brian | Nelson | One of CamperForce prospective employees. |
| | Sharon | Scofield | One of CamperForce prospective employees. |
| | Linda | Chesser | Former Washington State University academic adviser. |
| | Karren | Chamberlen | A former bus driver. |
| | Kenny | Harper | A former employee of CamperForce. |
| | Bob | | An accountant for a timber products firm. |
| | Anita | | Bob's wife. |
| | Joanna | Johnson | One of a workampers. |
| | Kelly | Calmes | An administrator for the program in Campbellsville. |
| | Scott | Lindgren | A managing partner with temporary staffing firm. |
| | David | Roderick | A seventy-year old workamper. |
| | Chuck | Stout | A former employee at McDonalds Corporation. |
| | Barbara | | Chuck's wife. |
| | Phil | DePeal | A forty-eight-year-old Desert Storm veteran. |
| | Robin | De Peal | Phil's wife. |
| | Monique | Morrissey | An economist at Economic Policy Institute. |
| | Thomas | Paine | English-born American political activist, and philosopher. |
| | Otto | von Bismarck | German statesman and Chancellor. |
| | William | Osler | A physician. |
| | Anthony | Trollope | English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. |
| | Lee Welling | Squier | A pension advocate. |
| | Francis | Townsend | A California physician. |
| | Franklin D. | Roosevelt | 32nd President of the United States. |
| | Ida Mae | Fuller | A retired legal secretary in Vermont. |
| | Jacob S. | Hacker | Yale political scientist. |
| | Peter | Brady | An economist of the Investment Company Institute. |
| | Teresa | Ghilarducci | Economist and professor at the New School in New York City. |
| | Alan | Simpson | Former U.S. Senator from Wyoming. |
| | Ronald | Reagan | 40th president of the United States and actor. |
| 4 | | | Escape Plan |
| | Bob | Wells | A former Safeway shelf stocker from Alaska. |
| | Roger Ward | Babson | A financial oracle. |
| | David A. | Thornburg | A writer. |
| | Charlene | Swankie | A seventy-year-old vandwelling guru. aka: Swankie Wheels. |
| | Trooper | Dan | One of the nomads. |
| | Dale | Carnegie | American writer and lecturer. |
| | Khalil | Gibran | Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter. |
| | Helen | Keller | American author. |
| | Henry David | Thoreau | American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist. |
| | J. R. R. | Tolkien | British philologist and author of classic high fantasy works. |
| | Bob | Vila | American home improvement television host. |
| | Sam | Walton | An avid bird hunter. |
| | Alan | Graham | The founder of the organization. |
| | George | Lehrer | One of the nomads. aka: Tioga George. |
| | David | | Tioga George's son. |
| | Tara | Burns | A sex worker in a '98 Chevy Astro. |
| | Bro | | Tara's dog. |
| | Susan | Rogers | A retired math teacher from Georgia. |
| | Rusty | Reed | A military veteran. |
| | Timber | | Rusty's dog. |
| | Bertrand | Russell | Founding figure in the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy. |
| | Armistead | Maupin | American writer. |
| | Jim | Melvin | A former Lowe's appliance salesman. |
| | Chica | | A Chihuahua. |
| | | | Part Two |
| 5 | | | Amazon Town |
| | Mr. | Brown | Linda May's acquaintance. |
| | Billy | Outlaw | One of the campers. |
| | Helene | Outlaw | One of the campers. |
| | Laura | Graham | A CamperForce member who worked as a picker. |
| | Mark | Thierman | A Reno attorney. |
| | Jen | Derge | One of Linda's friends. |
| | Ash | Haag | One of Linda's friends. |
| | Chris | Farley | American actor and comedian. |
| | Carl | | Linda's CamperForce's neighbor. |
| 6 | | | The Gathering Place |
| | Ken | Kesey | American novelist, essayist, and counter cultural figure. |
| | Paul | Winer | A bookstore owner. |
| | William | Alexander | German painter and television host. aka: Bill Alexander. |
| | Iris | Goldenberg | An Amazon CamperForce worker. |
| | Madison | | A Shih Tzu. |
| | Pancho | | A lovebird. |
| | Kasper | | An African Grey parrot. |
| | Martha | Summerhayes | A memoirist. |
| | Hadji | Ali | Egyptian regurgitation performer. |
| | Sharen | Peterson | One of the nomads. aka: Chere. |
| | Skittles | | A dog. |
| | Philip | Cushman | The president of the local chamber of commerce. |
| | Mike | Hobby | A biker turned pastor. |
| | Linda | Hobby | Mike's wife. |
| | Leonard | Scott | A former gas station owner. |
| | Carol | Kelley | An eighty-year-old widow who ran a food pantry. |
| | Barb | | A music teacher. |
| 7 | | | The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous |
| | John | Steinbeck | American writer. |
| | Kimya | Dawson | American musician. |
| | Lesa | NeSmith | One of the vandwellers. |
| | Al | Christensen | A former advertising art director. |
| | Lois | Middleton | A sixty-two-year-old camper. |
| | LaVonne | Ellis | A sixty-seven-year-old writer. |
| | Gary | Pardekooper | The park's human resource director. |
| | Trish | Hay | A fifty-nine-years-old living in a Nissan Sentra. |
| | Valerie | | Linda May's younger daughter. |
| | Atli | Pommer | A former transit bus driver. |
| | Donovan | | Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist. |
| | Sameer | Ali | One of Linda's friends. |
| | Mr. | Pico | One of Linda's friends. |
| | Wayne | | A painter. |
| | Lori | Hicks | Linda's acquaintance. |
| | Russell | | Lori's son. |
| | Kaylee | | Lori's dog. |
| | William Least | Heat-Moon | American writer. |
| | Edward | Abbey | American author and essayist. |
| | Jon | Krakauer | American writer and journalist. |
| | Cheryl | Strayed | American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host. |
| 8 | | | Halen |
| | James | Rorty | American radical writer and poet. |
| | Rebecca | Solnit | Author and essayist from United States. |
| | Halen | | Name of the van. |
| | Ernest | Hemingway | American author and journalist. |
| | Dale | Maharidge | American author, journalist. |
| | Gizmo | | A Chihuahua. |
| | Vincent | Mosemann | Swankie's friend. |
| | Kat | Valentino | One of the vandwellers. |
| | Mike | Valentino | One of the vandwellers. |
| | Alex | | Kat and Mike's son. |
| | Ronnie | | Alex's pet. |
| 9 | | | Some Unbeatable Experiences |
| | Gretchen | Erb | One of the workers at American Crystal Sugar. |
| | Brian | Gore | One of the workers at American Crystal Sugar. |
| | Dan | | A former Walmart truck driver. |
| | Alice | | Dan's wife. |
| | Keith | | A minister with ten children. |
| | Charlie | | A former mechanic for a copper mining concern. |
| | Ed | | A former motorcycle cop. |
| | Patricia | | Ed's wife. A former mail carrier. |
| | Charlie | Chaplin | British comic actor and filmmaker. |
| | | | Part Three |
| 10 | | | The H Word |
| | Scout | | A puppy. |
| | Paul | Bowles | American composer, writer, translator. |
| | Officer | Nunez | LaVonne's friend. |
| 11 | | | Homecoming |
| | Jordan | | Linda May's granddaughter. |
| | Kurt | Vonnegut | American writer. |
| | Kyndal | Dimon | A cosmetologist |
| | Cyndi | Lauper | American recording artist; singer, songwriter, actress and activist. |
| | David | Swanson | A former professional potter. |
| | Julio | | David's dog. |
| | Ron | | Iris' acquaintance. |
| | Becky | Hill | An Isaiah 58 Project volunteer. |
| | Patti | DiPino | A CamperForce worker. |
| | Sammy | | Patti's Chihuahua. |
| | Grumpy | Gringo | Owned a taco stand in Quartzsite. |
| | Peter | Fox | A former driver in San Francisco. |
| | John | Prine | American country singer/songwriter. |
| | Malvina | Reynolds | American folk singer. |
| | Michael | Reynolds | A New Mexico architect. |
| | Wendy | | One of the nomads. |
| | Gary | | One of Linda's fellow camp host partner. |
| | Robert | Uribe | One who opened a coffee shop in Douglas. |
| | Harrod | Blank | A Berkeley filmmaker. |
| | Joaquin | Guzman | A drug lord. aka: El Chapo. |
| | Lonnie | | Owner of Nalley's Pit Shop |
| | Lonnie Jr. | | Lonnie's son. |
