AmericaOverland
Explorer
Brian, that's the point. I don't have ANY nonclothing gear. I don't even have my truck yet. Never mind leave Houston except twice or thrice a year (I have not been outside the boundary of Houston/Dallas/Austin/east of Eagle Pass/Corpus for the last 10 years). ALL discretionary income after expenses is going towards emergency short-term debt (including two molar crowns that insurance would not cover, about $2,400), except for about $30-50 a month, which is for supplies. Next month, I'm getting a warm-weather sleeping bag, then the next month I will get a sleeping bag pad to sleep on. Since I don't have my truck here to see what I can do, I'm imagining that I can build a floor platform that drops down on the front floor to extend the bed floor maybe another foot or so.
I have been very, very patient in getting my life going again. It gets frustrating at times, like I found out over a year ago when my radiator went out in Oct., then my water pump in November, then my distributor nodal in December (altogether over $2,000). Since then, I realized that really, being in a city like Houston and a car-loving state like Texas, I have to make transportation #1 over everything else and overprepare.
Getting there... Sometimes, it's all I can do when I'm off from work for several days in a row. Just stay home and not use up my gas money. I find things to do around the apartment, find stuff online to read all day.
Stephanie
. I too, have thought of doing similar trips (but in Europe where i live, or Morocco) but then started thinking about how much i would need and never went. This has really made me think again and stop giving excuses, i'm giving the necessary repairs to my Tenéré and i'll start asap.
