A fellow student from grad school dumped everything almost two years ago and began a tour journey around the country to visit and spend time in various intentional communities. The intent is to write a book but when she's with a group she tries to live with them in their way.
It's been pretty interesting. Blog posts are somewhat sparse but that's the way it should be when you're busy living, there's time to write later. If you're interested, you can find it here:
http://foreverarriving.blogspot.com/