Opting Out

Perspective & direction, adventure journey

Dreaming

Adventure cycling and forgot where I left my van. Weird, yet entirely possible. Maybe not a bad thing.

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Beach Landing

Atlantic Coast

I dig my toes into the sand

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The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket

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Earth Is My Spaceship

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Camping Lab Rooftop Tent (RTT)

What it is:

  • Portable Rooftop Stargazing Adventure Cottage, or PROSAC (ok, I just made that up, but it is medicine for the soul…)
  •  Opens super fast to 71x94x47 spacious sleeping accommodations

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  • Compact and low profile, only 12” tall when mounted to factory roof rack (installed extra factory crossbars for additional support but doesn’t really need ‘em it’s so light)

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  • Rooftop design keeps wildlife out, pesky giraffes and apatosauruses excepted of course

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  • Screened windows and awnings on all four sides , rainfly included for gnar squall conditions

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  • Lightweight aluminum ladder for easy ingress/egress. I’d show you the comfortable 3” thick high density foam mattress inside but well, there’s a party goin’ on…

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Contentment

Working Crafting Forging Creating Perfecting Imperfecting Fixing Breaking Assembling

Cutting Fitting Shaping Trashing Head-scratching Redoing Enabling Disabling Completing

Preparation

Chevy Astro LT AWD Stroverlander

  • OLV 2” Lift Kit modified and customized to 5” lift
  • Rancho RS9000XL adjustable shocks
  • Yokohama Geolandar AT/S 235/70-16 all terrain tires
  • Camper sleeping accommodations in van
  • www.overlandvans.com

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In the works:

Camping Lab Rooftop Tent (RTT) w/lower enclosed annex.

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Treadwright Warden A/T 31” 245/75-16 E Load Rating

  • Utilizes modern retread technology and environmentally friendly, reducing up to 70% of the oil used in new tire production, reduced carbon emissions and less landfill waste while costing significantly less.
  • www.treadwright.com 
  • www.retread.org

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New Year New Journey

Overlanding, adventure traveling, living on the road, living off the road, off the grid, whatever you want to call it… circumnavigating the mostly continental United States (and beyond) along coasts and borders, misadventure wherever possible.

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Ramblr

I have no goal here. No expectation. Nothing prescribed nor pre-thought. No attainment.No atonement.

Only now.

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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path -Buddha

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10sion

Apprehension. Tension. Standing still. Falling behind. Mind racing. Wheels spinning.

Million thoughts. Thousand ideas. Hundred inactions. Stillborn visions.

Words into feelings? Feelings into words?

Coffee not helping.

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Opting Out

What it is. What it isn’t.
It’s everything. It’s nothing.
Somewhere in between.
Somewhere out beyond. 
It is. It isn’t. 
It? 
Maybe.
Perhaps.
Far-flung.
Far-fetched.
Far from.
Far gone.
Foregone?

Never.

Adventure living journal.

Obscure?

Definitely.

Misadventure journey…

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