Departing Yellowstone and the Tetons was hard, I could spend months just there hiking and exploring around, but my crazy time table said it was time to say good bye. The next leg wouldn’t be solo, and human interaction sounded nice. A person to discuss how crazy this week had been, being only 4 days […]

It’s not an adventure unless something goes wrong. Isn’t that the saying? Well, it didn’t take long. I stopped at the Yellowstone sign to get some pictures and enjoy the sunset. I still had plenty of time to get into the park, find a place to sleep, and maybe make a decent dinner. Then, my […]

It’s 430 pm, day 2, and I’m currently sitting in my camp at Delta Lake in Grand Teton National Park. The road just to get here was more mentally exhausting than anything.  But I’ve had my nutritious and delicious dinner of ramen noodles, so now seems like a good time to recap.Yesterday, July 1st, I […]

Test Weekend

June 30th, 2015

Cut off for trail head. Slept here for the night This past weekend, June 27th and 28th, 2015, I took my finalized camper car out for a test run before going off to see America.  To test it, I decided to combine it with another item on my list that I’ve wanted to complete for […]

If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend part 1 where I tore my car apart to create a sleeping platform. Now that I had the platform made, it was secure and level, it was time to figure out how to arrange everything to maximize space and not cram myself with too much stuff.  The first […]

If I’m going to live in my car for the next year, a few additions are going to be needed to make living and sleeping in it a bit easier.  But, one important goal of this build is to not do any permanent modifications to the car.  All additions need to be reversible so that […]

Recently, an innovator by the name of Dean Potter passed away while practicing one of his many crafts, wing suit flying.  If you haven’t read the articles, a quick Google search will yield plenty.  But one idea that consistently arose again and again was the idea of risk, and that he finally pushed too far. […]

Some dreams start out as dreams from when we were kids.  We fantasize about the day they’ll be fulfilled and train for years to be ready for it.  Other dreams start with an impulse, grow to become nearly impossible, and are eventually…completed. Six months ago for Christmas, i was given a Backpacker magazine, with the […]