In an ever changing world
I look ahead and see myself doing different things with this blog. I’ve taken a little time off from the whole thing in an attempt to take a step back and look at what it was that I hoped to accomplish with it and the answer has come to me that I should continue to post about the things going on in my mind. What’s happened in the last few months to make me think about this is I have had a slight mindset change and feel that it would be good to incorporate that into this website.
When I started this site I purely had the intentions of sharing my travels with friends and family, and I was pretty cool with that for a while. Then I fell into a sort of a rut with my travels, pretty much going to the same few places all the time. In my mind, this was great, because I was becoming far more comfortable with these places and really getting to learn where all the “good spots” are. I feel pretty good that I could plan a solid week trip to Baja California Sur, South East Alaska, or southern Utah that would give most people a trip of a life time. There’s nothing wrong with that!
I have been going to different places, and still plan to go to many, many places, but in the meantime I hope to post some things on the site that will not only keep you and I occupied and reading along, but maybe we can learn some things about travels as well.
A couple of areas I plan to explore in the future are interviews or guest articles with people describing interesting places they have been, how to articles on simple things like building a survival kit and starting a fire, and reviews of books, websites and gear that I come across which I feel deserve a mention.
I still do plan to build up a rig capable of taking me to far reaches of the continent, but in recent months I’ve stalled out on my Toyota project and haven’t decided whether or not to move forward. The Toyota is a great rig, and I would feel comfortable driving it anywhere I wanted to go, but part of mindset change has got me wondering if I don’t need something bigger. Like a 4×4 conversion van or maybe even just a 4runner. I’m not even sure at this point. I hope to work that out here in the future as well.
The future is a place filled with dreams and goals. I hope that you will keep coming back to see some of mine realized.
