Another Very Sporadic Update

A lot’s gone on, and I’ve been very bad at posting updates here. Since the last time, I’ve traveled all the way up the Pacific coast to Washington and spent a lot of time in Oregon. I went to Overland Expo PNW, enjoyed camping out for the weekend, and did a bunch of networking. To […]

Smokey Da Van

It seems I’ve been so focused on building up Smokey Da Van — the website, the YouTube channel, the Instagram, the Facebook page, the Twitter, and the cat’s Twitter — that I completely forgot to come back here and mention what I’ve been up to. Pretty much all of my creative efforts that haven’t been […]

Sometimes You Have To Break a Few Eggs to Make Lemonade

Yes, I know I’ve mashed two sayings together quite badly here, but that’s the point. That’s pretty much been my life since March 24, when I woke up to a smoke alarm alerting me that my apartment was on fire. Nothing has gone according to my previous plan since that point. The funny thing is […]

Forged in Fire

A lot has happened since my last post, so let me summarize. We woke up to the smoke alarm on March 24 at 2:30am. Our apartment was filled with smoke, and there were flames at our back door. We grabbed the cat and a few essentials and got out. No one got hurt, but if […]

Progress on Spaceball 1

It took a full two weeks for the US Postal Service to deliver the bill of sale and title we needed to register the van, and to make sure it was really genuinely legally ours before starting our build. I laid the groundwork for our future YouTube channel, and posted a van tour video of […]