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Short Story:
I currently reside in Anoka, MN.
Rigs - 2006 Subaru Forester 4EAT (stock) | 1982 Yamaha XJ750 Custom
I enjoy photography, motorcycles, backpacking, and driving.
Long Story:
Thomas here. I crew up in central Minnesota in small town backcountry. Wanderlust has always been ingrained in me, but unfortunately i have never had many opportunities to travel aside from a couple family road trips throughout my life and a trip to Guatemala to give my grandpa a hand in his charity organization he founded down there.
It has been a dream of mine to drop everything and start train hopping, but being stuck under student debt has held that back from happening. Eventually I got involved with motorcycles and bought my first which was an 79 XS1100 that i stripped completely and rebuilt it in a way that i loved, and then my new dream became traveling the country on my motorcycle. That dream faded when i discovered that my bike was too unreliable. I sold that one along with my car, and bought an 06 Forester with the intentions of using it to road trip (at that time i did not know overlanding was a term or lifestyle). I also bought another motorcycle with intentions of using it to travel, but now that I'm getting married this year and my girlfriend likes to travel too, motorcycling around the country seems less doable right now. I've been researching more on what to do with my stock Forester to make it worthy of Overlanding which happens to be how i found Jake Wettern's YT channel, which then led me to this group because of one of his recent videos.
Anyways, that's a significantly summarized version of my backstory. I don't have many photos of my Forester yet, but if you google a black 06 forester, well then there you go. But here are the bikes I have made.
Thomas
Short Story:
I currently reside in Anoka, MN.
Rigs - 2006 Subaru Forester 4EAT (stock) | 1982 Yamaha XJ750 Custom
I enjoy photography, motorcycles, backpacking, and driving.
Long Story:
Thomas here. I crew up in central Minnesota in small town backcountry. Wanderlust has always been ingrained in me, but unfortunately i have never had many opportunities to travel aside from a couple family road trips throughout my life and a trip to Guatemala to give my grandpa a hand in his charity organization he founded down there.
It has been a dream of mine to drop everything and start train hopping, but being stuck under student debt has held that back from happening. Eventually I got involved with motorcycles and bought my first which was an 79 XS1100 that i stripped completely and rebuilt it in a way that i loved, and then my new dream became traveling the country on my motorcycle. That dream faded when i discovered that my bike was too unreliable. I sold that one along with my car, and bought an 06 Forester with the intentions of using it to road trip (at that time i did not know overlanding was a term or lifestyle). I also bought another motorcycle with intentions of using it to travel, but now that I'm getting married this year and my girlfriend likes to travel too, motorcycling around the country seems less doable right now. I've been researching more on what to do with my stock Forester to make it worthy of Overlanding which happens to be how i found Jake Wettern's YT channel, which then led me to this group because of one of his recent videos.
Anyways, that's a significantly summarized version of my backstory. I don't have many photos of my Forester yet, but if you google a black 06 forester, well then there you go. But here are the bikes I have made.
Thomas
