dieselbigot
Adventurer
This sort of trip has been a fantasy of mine for a long time. The allure of trading in corporate life, powerpoint presentations and board room meetings for board shorts, no entries in my calendar and wide open road full or dirt has been a gravitational pull for years. I’ve been dreaming of this forever, and now I’m fortunate enough to have the opportunity to do it.
A few years ago during an internal business review one of my senior execs asked me what my 5 year goal was…like where did I see myself?, where did I want to be?, what role did I want in the company? Without hesitation and with total conviction I told him I wanted to earn the right to become bare foot and homeless…period, end of sentence. Aside from the initial chuckle of my peers and and looks bewilderment from surrounding execs, I got the reaction you might think I would get inside the walls of an uptight corporate campus…Ummm…Huh??
So now it’s happening. I’m barefoot as I type this and as of tomorrow morning my home will be a well kitted 2010 Tacoma with an ARB fridge, Columbus RTT and a bunch of **** in the back…camp gear, chainsaw, MTB, iSUP, books, music, yoga mat…yada yada. I’m beyond stoked!
Plan is to head east from CA through NV via Hwy 50 to Durango CO (the WAY prettier route)…I’ll camp along the way in Great Basin, hang for a couple of days with friends in Durango, then pick up the COBDR in Cortez early next week.
The full track of COBDR from 4 corners to WY boarder is 600+ miles of dirt…I may do all of it, I may skip some depending on mood and timing. Once in WY I’ll explore Medicine Bow NF before heading further north and east into SD where I’ll spend some time around the Black Hills area. I’ve never seen Mt. Rushmore and as much as I hate crowds, government run campgrounds and retard tourists, I feel like it’s just something I have to see. Once I’ve had my fill there and feel strongly compelled to start running people over, I’ll resist the urge and hammer down north to the CDN boarder crossing in Baudette MN.
My family has a cottage in Lake of the Woods…it’s a gorgeous spot on a very quiet lake (Longbow Lake, MB) surrounded by crown land (think BLM) with complete privacy and incredible fishing. Lake of the Woods is home to walleye, northern pike, perch, sauger, crappie, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, lake trout, lake sturgeon, and muskellunge. It’s comprised of nearly 1,700 sq. miles of water with 25,000 miles of shoreline and over 14,000 islands.
I’ll spend about 10-12 days at the cottage, then blast across the prairies (zero to see here) to meet more family in Calgary. From there I’ll head back into the US via Rooseville BC…the starting point of the Continental Divide. Im meeting a few friends for this portion of the trip and we’ve allotted about 2.5 weeks to complete it.
To come full circle, I’ll drive back to Durango and pick up my buddy Andy…we’ll head out to Moab and camp there for a few days until we are sick of each other, then it’s back home to CA around mid Sept. Then I’ll start planning my second leg…Australia in November
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I’ll post up as I go along and as Wi-FI allows…stay tuned!
Cheers,
B
A few years ago during an internal business review one of my senior execs asked me what my 5 year goal was…like where did I see myself?, where did I want to be?, what role did I want in the company? Without hesitation and with total conviction I told him I wanted to earn the right to become bare foot and homeless…period, end of sentence. Aside from the initial chuckle of my peers and and looks bewilderment from surrounding execs, I got the reaction you might think I would get inside the walls of an uptight corporate campus…Ummm…Huh??
So now it’s happening. I’m barefoot as I type this and as of tomorrow morning my home will be a well kitted 2010 Tacoma with an ARB fridge, Columbus RTT and a bunch of **** in the back…camp gear, chainsaw, MTB, iSUP, books, music, yoga mat…yada yada. I’m beyond stoked!
Plan is to head east from CA through NV via Hwy 50 to Durango CO (the WAY prettier route)…I’ll camp along the way in Great Basin, hang for a couple of days with friends in Durango, then pick up the COBDR in Cortez early next week.
The full track of COBDR from 4 corners to WY boarder is 600+ miles of dirt…I may do all of it, I may skip some depending on mood and timing. Once in WY I’ll explore Medicine Bow NF before heading further north and east into SD where I’ll spend some time around the Black Hills area. I’ve never seen Mt. Rushmore and as much as I hate crowds, government run campgrounds and retard tourists, I feel like it’s just something I have to see. Once I’ve had my fill there and feel strongly compelled to start running people over, I’ll resist the urge and hammer down north to the CDN boarder crossing in Baudette MN.
My family has a cottage in Lake of the Woods…it’s a gorgeous spot on a very quiet lake (Longbow Lake, MB) surrounded by crown land (think BLM) with complete privacy and incredible fishing. Lake of the Woods is home to walleye, northern pike, perch, sauger, crappie, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, lake trout, lake sturgeon, and muskellunge. It’s comprised of nearly 1,700 sq. miles of water with 25,000 miles of shoreline and over 14,000 islands.
I’ll spend about 10-12 days at the cottage, then blast across the prairies (zero to see here) to meet more family in Calgary. From there I’ll head back into the US via Rooseville BC…the starting point of the Continental Divide. Im meeting a few friends for this portion of the trip and we’ve allotted about 2.5 weeks to complete it.
To come full circle, I’ll drive back to Durango and pick up my buddy Andy…we’ll head out to Moab and camp there for a few days until we are sick of each other, then it’s back home to CA around mid Sept. Then I’ll start planning my second leg…Australia in November
.I’ll post up as I go along and as Wi-FI allows…stay tuned!
Cheers,
B
