Pretty cheap entry fee into Radwood. NP. 

Because you can’t camp on top of your mountain bike. At least not comfortably. 

Alaska Airlines took away all the check-in stations at my local airport. So you can’t print a boarding pass even if you want to. All the gate agent does is check your ID, which TSA does anyway. So now I have AK Air’s app. Fine. But am I going to rely on that to work? No. I take a screenshot of the QR code, print it…

Can’t wait to see the Trailhunter join all the other overlanders in the Whole Foods parking lot.

Rudy catching a RICO case would be a very delicious irony.

Which is not to be believed because it has Minnesota plates on it. I’m not buying anything that has been driven around the winter brine state of Minnesota.

And why would the seller put up a photo that basically says I’ve worn out the rear suspenstion lugging my motocross bike to races or the desert?

Looks like omplete crap to me. 9 speed drivetrain a la 90s, cheap Chinese tires, cheap chinese pedals, cheap Chinese fork, they won’t even tell you on their website who makes the motor, but it’s not Shimano or Bafang or they’d tell you. And good luck getting anyone competent to work on one of these. Do we really…

It doesn’t help that the RWNJs in Idaho threw out their long serving and perfectly reasonable GOP Attorney general and replaced him with a far right idealogue with an agenda. The lawyers at the AG’s Office couldn’t run for the exits fast enough. Well over two centuries of institutional knowledge disappeared over the…

Too late as of 1803 when the SCOTUS seized power in what amounted to a judicial coup. (See, Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137 (1803)). 

Subaru Croztek (sorry, got beat to it)

I rented a Toyota RAV4 in Seattle a few months ago. I was ready to be underwhelmed and anxious about the ride height (my daily is a lifted Wrangler). Thing saved me from getting in a wreck with its automatic braking which surprised the fuck out of me. Having ditched my long-hated Subaru gasket eater, I think I might…

I better sell my Elio stock so I can get in on this. 

The Honda CRF300L Rally is worth the extra weight because it has a 3 gallon tank so you don’t have to strap on a Kolpin tank if you want to go a long distance between gas stops. The bike itself is almost impossible to find at dealers out here in the West (at least last time I looked a month ago). I’d buy the venerable…

Miata is always the answer. Especially in this case and I’m only 6' and around 190 lbs. 

She’s riding a CRF300L the rally version that has a 3 gallon tank. They are impossible to find here in the west. Been looking for months. Well worth the extra money. Or just get a slightly used CRF250L 

Tongans love the British Monarchy. Maybe get Tongan hip hop star Rizvan Tu’itahi (currently a New Zealander). Interesting story. 

Immediately upon reading that article about erythritol I ran out in the kitchen and checked my Red Bull sugar free cans in the fridge. Whew, it only has alleged cancer causing aspartame. After twenty years I don’t think I could go back to coffee.

I rented one of these AWD versions years ago to drive from DIA to Laramie in a snowstorm. My first thought was that I would end up in a ditch and freeze to death. I was very impressed. If this one were AWD I’d be on it for an overlanding fun project. $4500! That’s mid-range mountain bike money these days.

My full squish carbon mountain bike weighs about what my road bikes of the 80s and 90s weighed. And yes it’s damn comfy. When it starts snowing I have fat bikes with 4.5" tires that are also way more comfortable than road bikes with those skinny seats. Slow AF, but they’re a workout you’d only get climbing big hills…