Really enjoying your videos, been here from the start! Are you guys going to be at the expo in may? Also how did you get involved with expo and will you be teaching any classes if you are there? Keep up the good work and where are you now?
Thank you!
Yes, we'll be teaching driving/winching classes at all three Expos. We need to come home for more time this visit to refill the trip fund. Also going to teach at the Overland Rallyes, lead some Mexico trips, do the military training and some private trainings as well.
Back in the early 2000's I was laid off a few times as the economy was down and each company I worked for went under. Wasn't making money so I started an environmental cleanup to remove trash from some local trails just to do something. I couldn't find a fulltime job so I poured myself into that charity and just worked odd jobs for money anytime I could. That blew up into a big event and I started meeting a lot of folks from it. The folks who later started Overland Journal and a thing called Overland Training gave me some work, part of which was teaching the offroading skills I'd had from all the years of wheeling. Those same friends, one in particular, always gave me as much work as they could.
Then some of them went and started Expo and it's been growing ever since.
Right place at the right time, but putting a lot of hours and years into that cleanup seems to have paid dividends I never expected in ways I never could have imagined.
Cheers from the Osorno Volcano in Chile.
Tim