The number one tip on Camping 101 guides is to start slow: for your first time, don’t take off for weeks at a time on an overly ambitious trip. This is exactly what we’re doing. Five weeks, from Iowa up to Banff down to Santa Fe, stopping in pretty much every national park along the way.
We’re making this trip right now because we are both technically unemployed. My job at [REDACTED] doesn’t start until January and Z quit his job so that we can travel and have Kung Fu adventures until then.
Right now we are trying to get packed up so we can leave in the morning. The main obstacle to getting properly packed for me is not knowing what the hell I’m doing. My mental conception of outdoor activity basically begins and ends with the North Face display inside Scheel’s.
If you’re not a person of computers, send me your meatspace address and I’ll send you a postcard. Otherwise, this website is the exclusive authorized source of information about Zach and Jayne’s whereabouts: accept no imitations.