Our Story (A Very Short Part of It Anyway)
This is the story of a pair of out of shape old reprobates who woke up one morning & decided that life was way too darned short to sit at home and grow old quietly.
That goofy couple in the picture over there is us, Earl & Edna. Well, it was us a few years ago at any rate. We’re a little older now, and probably a little goofier too, but it’s close enough for horse shoes and hand grenades so we’ll just go with it.
We like getting away from civilization. As far away from civilization as possible. Civilization is over-rated. Empty roads and wild places are way better.
We’ve always loved going, no matter where the going takes us. Like the time we drove through a cold & snowy winter night from Idaho deep into Wyoming in search of a motel with a swimming pool. It wasn’t that there weren’t motels with swimming pools back home. It was all about the going. Besides, the boys enjoyed it.
Anyway, after way too many years of rattling one family car after another down dirt roads they had no business being on, we did what any relatively sane people would do once their kids are grown with lives of their own and neither the time nor the inclination to hunt down swimming pools in the backwaters of Wyoming with their parents… we went out and got ourselves a shiny new four-wheel drive-pick-em-up-truck and headed out into the desert remotes along some of Arizona’s emptiest roads (and trust me, there are a lot of them) to start collecting some fancy pin-striping.
Fast forward a year or five, add a few creature comforts to that pick-em-up-truck, throw in retirement and here we are now on the interwebs sharing the stories, adventures and lessons we’re learning as we explore the empty roads and wild places of this beautiful country in our Tacoma, Idgie the Wander Fort.