Moto-Glamping: Van Life Meets Motorcycling

Though news articles I’ve written are already published, the very first piece I wrote for ADVRider just went live this morning: Moto-Glamping: Combining Motorcycles and Van Life. I’m pretty happy about this — this article, the other articles this has led to on a regular basis, and the talk I gave on this subject at […]

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 […]

Buyer’s Guide to the Best Car Tires

It’s been a minute since I posted anything here. I’ve been happily chugging along at FIXD, writing whatever needs to be written at the moment. I’ve spent the past week or two putting together a badly needed update for our tire buyer’s guide. I’m rather proud of it, so I’ll share it here.

The No-Build Van Build

I’m still reworking my personal website with regard to #vanlife. Before, I had a whole section about The Pirate Van, my 2003 Dodge Ram conversion van that I’d turned into a part-time home on wheels. I sold that van in late 2020 and bought Smokey Da Van to go full-time. We have an entire website […]