Nomad in a Settled City: Tales of a Traveller

Ramona Mayon sits inside her 27-foot Gulfstream RV at the Bayview Vehicle Triage Center in San Francisco. Now 62 and battling Stage 4 breast cancer, the self-described nomad is making peace with herself while still fighting for the rights of the unhoused. (Courtesy Ramona Mayon)

One night in March while an extreme weather event exploded over San Francisco — a “bomb cyclone” as the climatologists called it — Ramona Mayon was texting with a journalist.

The journalist was in a warm and comfortable home office. Mayon was not.