What Are We Doing?

Freedom is a full tank.

Two brothers, one car, and roughly 5,000 miles.

Recipe for success, I think so.

The idea is to start In Vancouver Canada and drive south. Washington, Oregon and California await. From there, east to Arizona, north to Utah and Colorado then east again, foot to the floor across the midwest. All the way back to Boston.

Don’t call it a plan, because its not. Planning is not something we do well, or really at all.

If it looks interesting, we will be pulling off the highway and investigating. Cities be damned, we want to see parks and open spaces.

We have a tent with more holes than your average fishing net and a dual camp stove we bought in Vancouver. The seller looked like he may well have been cooking up Crystal Meth on these things before we got our hands on them, but as long as they work...

When not camping we will be sleeping on sofas of long lost or newly made friends.

We have few rules on this trip, and by few I really mean two.

Rule 1: Thou shalt not say the m-i-n-e word.

Upon arrival I was introduced to The Game of Life, a sort of communal living initiative. The game is simple, anyone playing is forbidden to say the m-i-n-e word. Saying the word results in 10 push ups on the spot and 30 seconds of verbal abuse usually referring to how manly and what a show off the individual is.

Rule 2: Thou shalt not shave thy mustache.

So with all that in mind, off we go!