It Took 10 Years But I’ve Finally Surpassed 300,000 Words Here

Not including this post, 300,290 words to be exact posted here within 214 posts. I’m sure many of the words adding up to that total include lots of “filler words” such as; “of”, “the”, as well as “and” and more than a few usages of “douche” (and rightfully so) so I am not getting too …

My DNA Helps My Adventures

From a very early age, maybe 10-12 years old, I can remember making several repeated observations about how I differed from people around me. One, and I have no idea how this conversation came up, was that I could smell the sulfurous compounds in my urine after eating asparagus while other people could not. While …

Glad the Center Divide Held Up

Heading up through Sonoma county to our destination for the Memorial Day weekend we found ourselves in crap Petaluma traffic which is so often the norm. We had been dancing around with a very nicely put together 2nd gen Tacoma on the highway and had offered up a reciprocated “Hey man, nice truck” in the …

Playing The Long Game With Arc’Teryx Customer Support

We’re thrilled that we finally got our Arc’Teryx Theta SV Jacket back. After three months and eight emails (my original request email plus seven from the company) It’s been a long time coming but a least we have it back and they did a nice job with the repair. Back in November of last year …

How To Subscribe To This Blog or, Well…it was fun while it lasted

UPDATE: Well…it was fun while it lasted. Sadly, due to the ever-increasing amount of fraudulent subscribers we have decided to disable this functionality on our site. If you do, truly, wish to keep up-to-date with our adventures we would ask that you simply revisit the site every so often to see what new content has …

New Logo On The Tacoma

Now that we have our new logo just using it on the website is not enough. Our old, simple advertising on the Tacoma was just our amateurish showing of the plain URL in an interesting font on the rear window of the camper shell. Since certain people have a design sensibility I value I quickly …

The Garbage Walk

TL;DR: Litter left behind on public lands by uncaring scumbags is an all too common problem these days. Properly disposing of your own garbage is simply the bare minimum. You can do a great extra service by simply bringing a small bag with you on your walks/hikes and filling it up with trash you pick …

Willow Playing Dog Head Prototype

A couple of buddies of mine are long-term friends from before I knew either of them. They are both talented artists, designers and thinkers. One of them happens to also be Willow’s original rescuer. One of the projects they are working on together has us excited about the possibilities it opens up for including a …

Geologists’ Cabin Wall Of Shame

This is only one of the many posts relating to our Death Valley adventure. If you would like to see more of what we did on that trip please visit our main Death Valley page. This is a page to document some of the ________________ <INSERT A NOUN OF YOUR CHOICE (WITH OR WITHOUT A …

Cactus Jack

We are hanging out South of Quartzite again for a few days waiting for some packages to arrive at Quiet Times in town. The last item is showing up today and then we will be decamping to Slab City to meet up with some folks we met at the RTR and to see that “art …