by Nate | Jan 11, 2015 | Adventure Notes
When you travel around the country by yourself, you get to experience lots of new and interesting things. One of those things is your “Fight or Flight” response in its full wild glory. In olden days, this hard-wired function was extremely useful for...
by Nate | May 21, 2014 | Adventure Notes
When I was 12, I was pretty certain that I was, in fact, going to be a major rockstar melting all of your faces off with my sweet licks. But also being 12 I had no idea as to how one could actually became a professional face melter. My whole plan was as follows:...
by Nate | May 20, 2014 | Adventure Notes
Right now, I am sitting out under the stars on top of a hill in a little place called Kerrville, Texas. I’ve spent the day making real friends out of internet friends, swapping stories about guitars, inventing things, and chatting about how much we all love the...
by Nate | May 18, 2014 | Adventure Notes, Photography
I judge a place by it’s water. As in, does it taste good? Or not at all? Because water shouldn’t really have a taste. I mean it’s water. So when your water has a flavor, that’s weird. Like sulphur, or in the case of Arkansas, dish soap. It made...
by Nate | May 1, 2014 | Adventure Notes, Art and Music
There are these guys from Sweden who make the rock and roll that I like. They are called Blindside. And while they’re generally on the more bombastic side of things, occasionally they get all acoustic on me and even that’s cool. Take for instance the song...
by Nate | Apr 30, 2014 | Adventure Notes, Photography
The Interstate system here in the States is an interesting thing. It’s equal parts fast, efficient travel, and endless stretches of asphalt monotony. Up until I started this little adventure, I used it much like the rest of the country did, getting from here to...
by Nate | Apr 23, 2014 | Adventure Notes
A month ago I moved out of my house, stuffed my Toyota 4 Runner with the “essentials” and became a traveler. I’d long imagined this day as I planned and plotted my escape from all things normal and boring. I’d read the tales of other travelers,...