The other end...

Here is a photo of the other end of my inspiration...ick...not so good for my taste but Frenchy is an Arctic guy it looks like.....cool beans for sure...I still love the box but mine will be smaller and lighter and the bike will stay like it is....

ManyWheelsBrian

Nice break in the winter weather and everyday life

Early this month I spent some nice time with Kit in Durango and around the 10th headed south in the Chinookie for the desert near Quartzite, Arizona and the 2nd Annual Rubber Tramp Rondy put on by my friend Bob Wells, a nomad who lives in a cleverly converted utility trailer and who spends his life living on various spots of public land.

Last year he counted a total of 43 nomads attending at least part of the three weeks of Rondy and this year by the third day of it he had already counted over 50!

I met my friend Jon B. from TorC there and we spent a little over a week  socializing, going to the workshops and taking a couple long walks in the desert every day. Every night we had a great bonfire and lots of good company and laughs and during the mornings held the various workshops/seminars on subjects important to anyone trying to live lightly and "green" as well as cheaply, in a vehicle of any kind.

The first workshop I attended was the one held by Radio Brian on comm of various kinds from CB to amateur radio. Excellent, informative and inspiring to me to go out and buy a small CB for the sidecar rig! Found the perfect one at a secondhand goods booth in the mix in "Q" for $10 and Brian checked it out for me as "good".

Later in the week Bob held a session on Mexico border health topics with Brian the Younger and Brian the Elder (me) giving tidbits about travel and camping in Mexico. Another traveler, Ann gave some insight regarding overlanding as far south as Panama and a lot of good info was passed around.

Many meals put together by various folks, spaghetti, stew, soup  and it was another huge success by this slightly odd but very open and caring group of nomadic folks.

On the way home to TorC Jon and I stopped in Why, AZ to visit a couple days with our friends Steve and Sue (nomads as well) and Sue's son Sly.  I was looking forward to meeting Sly and am pleased at having a new young friend. He is very artistic, doing me a great drawing of my future self with a pimped out walker and Dina still with me....

Home and feeling good and grateful for my very full and complete life....Again I say, I have never had it so damn good! Thanks to the Creator, good friends and a sober, clean life.

May your roads be smooth and the wind at your back,
ManyWheels

Beautiful weather in Durango...cold at night but oh so clear and sunny during the day...

Great to be hanging with Kitty for a while and just relaxing here in CO. Our little spot here is nice and cozy and warm with gorgeous views of the snow spotted, red cliffs when we go out for a walk....

I will stay here for a few days and then head down to the Rubber Tramp Rondevous near Quartzsite...

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A great chance to see some of the folks I have met on the Vandwelling and RV forums I belong to and those I met last year there. Also a number of good workshops and discussion groups covering everything from Ham radio/comm systems to living on public lands....not to mention the great campfire evenings and good conversation and meals together....

Friend Jon is coming over from TorC and we may take a couple days and go camp with and visit friends Sue Soaring Sun and Steve B. in Howling Coyote CG in Why.....

Sounds good and the Quartzsite area is a vibrant sea of humanity doing what snowbirds in RVs do....lots of raw capitalism and bartering and bantering....going to town is like walking into a carnival movie set....

More later,

Happy trails,
ManyWheelsBrian