Kevin Luten in brief
Kevin Luten is a long-time remote worker and Kindred home-swap host based in Atlanta. He has hosted 14 guests in his home and works from home swaps, ranger cabins and the occasional hotel. He founded the behavioral-science consultancy Behavior Design Works, is a Cialdini Certified Practitioner, and has spent about 28 years in transportation demand management. He writes Field Office.
I'm Kevin Luten. I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and I work remotely. I'm also a member of Kindred, a members-only home-swap club: I lend my home to other members while I'm away, and I stay in theirs when I travel. Field Office, this site, is where I write down what that actually involves, from the homeowner's side and from the desk.
What is home swapping like when the house is your own? And what setup keeps the work running from a borrowed house, a ranger cabin (a rustic cabin the US Forest Service rents out by the night) or a tent on the roof of a car? Those are the two questions this site answers.
What I've actually done
Can you check any of this? You can: every stay below has its own entry in the stay log linked after the list.
- I have hosted 14 Kindred guests in my own home in Atlanta.
- I have completed 8 Kindred stays as a guest in other members' homes (56 nights) since October 2025, with a 13-night stay in Tucson, AZ booked for Dec 2026–Jan 2027.
- Between swaps I have worked from Forest Service ranger cabins, a rooftop tent and the occasional hotel (those trips are in working beyond home swaps).
- For places with no electricity, my power comes from an EcoFlow River series power station (a big rechargeable battery with outlets) and a Goal Zero solar panel. The rest of the setup I rely on has its own guides.
The Kindred stays so far:
- Salt Lake City, UT, Sugar House: 3 nights, Oct 2025
- Coastal Georgia, Near Jekyll and St. Simons: 4 nights, Nov 2025
- St. Simons Island, GA, South end: 16 nights, Jan 2026
- Surf City, NC, Topsail Island: 7 nights, Jan–Feb 2026
- Islamorada, FL, Florida Keys: 8 nights, Apr 2026
- Philadelphia, PA, Washington Square West: 3 nights, Jul 2026
- Big Island, HI, Kohala Coast: 10 nights, Sep 2026
- Lake Lanier, GA, Gainesville: 5 nights, Oct 2026
Want the details? Each stay, with what the home's Kindred listing said about the workspace and internet, is in every Kindred stay I've taken. How hosting has gone is in my Kindred review as a host.
The setup behind it: a Windows desktop at home that stays on and reachable through Chrome Remote Desktop, a Starlink Mini on the Roam 100GB plan, and an EcoFlow RIVER Pro power station with a Goal Zero solar panel. Each has its own guide in the setup.
Why I work from other places
My day job and background
For about 28 years I have worked in transportation demand management. That is the field of helping people change how they travel: getting commuters to try a bus, a bike, a carpool or a day working from home instead of driving alone.
I founded Behavior Design Works, a consultancy built on behavioral science (the study of why people do what they do). I am also a Cialdini Certified Practitioner, trained in the principles of influence from psychologist Robert Cialdini (author of the book Influence).
That is an unusual angle for someone writing about home swaps and remote-work gear, isn't it? Most of my working life has gone into how people try a new way of getting around. This site is about me trying a new way of working and traveling.
How this site works
- It is first-hand. The stays, guests and gear are mine. Where a page needs a detail I haven't written yet, you will see it marked as missing rather than filled with a guess.
- Some links earn me something. A referral link is a personal invite that a company rewards me for, and an affiliate link pays me a small commission on a sale. The rewards are Kindred travel credits (what members spend on nights in each other's homes), credit card points or airline miles, a payment from Starlink (a satellite internet service), and affiliate commissions on some gear once those programs approve. Every one is marked where it appears, and how this site earns money lists each program and what it pays.
- Offers and rules change, so each one carries the date it was last checked.
- It covers home swapping from the homeowner's side, a dependable remote-work setup and paying for travel with points. It does not cover budget backpacking or van life, and nothing here is financial advice.
When someone joins Kindred through my referral link, I earn Kindred travel credits once Kindred verifies their home. If that someone is you, your 5 starting credits are Kindred's standard for everyone, not something extra from my link.
Elsewhere
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About Field Office
Field Office (fieldofficeguide.com) is a practical, first-person guide for experienced remote professionals who want to work from more interesting places, such as home swaps, ranger cabins, off-grid stays and the odd hotel, without their work setup falling apart. It is written by Kevin Luten, an Atlanta-based remote worker and Kindred home-swap host who has hosted 14 guests in his own home and completed 8 Kindred stays (56 nights) since October 2025, with a ninth booked. The site covers home swapping from the homeowner's side, a dependable remote-work setup (reaching a home computer from anywhere, off-grid power, Starlink and a travel kit) and paying for travel with points. Everything is based on Kevin's own stays and setup, and every referral link is disclosed.
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Kevin Luten is a long-time remote worker, Kindred home-swap host and the writer of Field Office, a practical guide for experienced remote professionals who want to work from more interesting places without their work setup falling apart. Based in Atlanta, he has hosted 14 guests in his own home and has completed 8 Kindred stays (56 nights) since October 2025, from a home in Salt Lake City's Sugar House neighborhood to an ocean-view home on the Kohala Coast of Hawaii's Big Island, stitched together with ranger cabins, a rooftop tent and the occasional hotel. He writes about home swapping from the homeowner's side and about the unglamorous setup that keeps the work running: reaching a home computer from anywhere, off-grid power and Starlink. Kevin founded the behavioral-science consultancy Behavior Design Works, is a Cialdini Certified Practitioner, and has spent about 28 years in transportation demand management, the field of helping people change how they travel.
About the author. Kevin Luten is a long-time remote worker and Kindred home-swap host based in Atlanta. He has hosted 14 guests in his home and works from home swaps, ranger cabins and the occasional hotel. He founded the behavioral-science consultancy Behavior Design Works, is a Cialdini Certified Practitioner, and has spent about 28 years in transportation demand management. He writes Field Office. More about Kevin.