This story from back in the day.
To set the scene, a hairy weirdo who was planning on living in the woods out of the back of his Toyota T-100 pickup and a stylish gal with a penchant for exploring met, and they somehow found something special.
Him -the narrator, having been influenced by back-issues of Overland Journal and repeated rewatches of Expedition Overland; and her having been influenced by whatever sundry vanlifers were popular back then- I never got into Instagram, sorry- decided that the best thing for their fledgling relationship was a torturous four-night, three-day long-haul backcountry excursion on the wild coastal byways of Northern California. They decided that it would be a great way to get to know the intimate things about each other that really mattered: how terrible his farts are in the confined cabin of an old pickup, how comfortable she was pooping in the woods, and just how incompatible the musical tastes of a dude who mainlines Frank Zappa and Warren Zevon and a lady who was painfully into The Lunineers truly were.
How bad could it be?
To set the scene, a hairy weirdo who was planning on living in the woods out of the back of his Toyota T-100 pickup and a stylish gal with a penchant for exploring met, and they somehow found something special.
Him -the narrator, having been influenced by back-issues of Overland Journal and repeated rewatches of Expedition Overland; and her having been influenced by whatever sundry vanlifers were popular back then- I never got into Instagram, sorry- decided that the best thing for their fledgling relationship was a torturous four-night, three-day long-haul backcountry excursion on the wild coastal byways of Northern California. They decided that it would be a great way to get to know the intimate things about each other that really mattered: how terrible his farts are in the confined cabin of an old pickup, how comfortable she was pooping in the woods, and just how incompatible the musical tastes of a dude who mainlines Frank Zappa and Warren Zevon and a lady who was painfully into The Lunineers truly were.
How bad could it be?