The adventure is over. Two people started. Two paths were chosen. I returned home. George made it happen and got the big man job. This means there is one ready to travel awesome modified and proven van.
So if you are in the San Diego/ SoCal area, and are ready to start the next step in your life and really enjoy freedom then let us know. Asking price is $4000.
Modified back for living done. Engine tune up done 4000 miles ago, just had an oil change less than 1000 miles ago. Awesome sound system we put in. And its proven. Parked across the nation and never hassled once. contact ryan.navaroli@gmail.com for serious inquiries.
So it is on rare occasion that we head out to do something in San Diego. Other than are normal grocery store, library, and 24 hour fitness routine. The semi-routine weekend jaunts to Oceanside to hang with Josh and Jessica. However, a random glance into the paper last night and a reasonable cover charge has us heading up to Solona Beach for the highly entertaining Cody Chesnutt. I highly recommend checking out his only album, The Headphone Masterpiece for anyone who doesn’t know him, which is most of you I’m sure. Cody’s biggest claim to fame is one of his songs, “The Seed,” being rerecorded by The Roots with him singing, appropriately titled “The Seed 2.0.” Cody’s music is, as I believe he describes, neo-soul mixed with rock and roll a dash r&b and a good sprinkling of acoustic guitar. Cody is performing with Martin Luther, another soul / r&b singer. There is some opener who I am not going to bother to mention, but may choose to edit the post if they are good. This concert is sure to be entertaining and sensual at what is toted as the best venue in SD, Belly Up. Peace y’all.
EDIT: So it turns out Cody Chesnutt found like women and children and God and is less cool now. He was still highly entertaining and dressed like a fool but I lost a lot of the sexy ideal I had for him. He also stated multiple times through the night he was only going to do new stuff. Myself and the few other people in the audience urged him to do a couple of his classics but it was to no avail. He was very receptive to the audience coming down to be with people. I hugged him and took a pic with him. Below is a video of Martin Luther who he performed with. Martin Luther was hit and miss with the songs. Two things I hate about live shows. 1) “Alright random person on guitar or bass, let me hear a solo.” This leads to moderately impressive solo which is always kind of meh. 2) Fake encores, they might as well just call it a set break or an intermission. If a crowd really wants it come out and play more, otherwise just do your job.
I went back and filled in some content on 3 posts I had just made as place holders. Yes I still have more media to upload and writing to do but it is a lot of work. Pretty please click some links on the side here and help support me. I’ve clicked on a few and they aren’t as spammy as I thought they might be, some are good information or links to good pages.
Enjoy watching videos and reading about how to shower on the road. You might like to take a visit to this site if you are interested in computer networking. By the way apparently I’m now a spam whore.
Congrats to George who, yes now has a job. His employer: Care Fusion. His job traveling medical software technician (or something along these lines). Perks: money, benefits, paid travel (possibly even Hawaii or Alaska). Horray, living in a van can pay off. Location: Mira Mesa (North part of the city) pretty close to La Jolla and UTC.
EDIT:What could stand in George’s way now. Pee. Watery Pee. Being the clean boy George is, he went in for his piss test with no reservations. Everyone knew what the results would be. Alas though, the results too watery, to watered down. “You must come in today and take it again,” said Mr. Ramirez. An easy comply but what if George were to fail again. But he didn’t. So hiphiphoray George has peed an acceptable amount of whatever else is in pee.
Well I suppose it has been a few weeks since my previous post in the Las Vegas airport (aka my hotel for the night, grrr). I went home to Athens and spent a very nice 10 days there. Seeing friends, family and loved ones as well as being there for the religious union of Matt Handley and his wife Megan. Apparently they did the legal marriage thing like a month before but oh well. The wedding was a great time and Athens was very pleasent as to be expected. Congrats to Matt and Megan. Also, congrats to George’s friend Zuber and his wife. George coincidentally attended Zuber’s wedding the day after Matt’s and was gone about the same amount of time less his fun in Vegas. For those curious, the van rested at the Las Vegas airport long term parking.
Another drinking weekend to Oceanside
Well like clock work we headed back to Oceanside for our fourth weekend in a row drinking with Josh and Jessica. This weekend however we had more plans than just shots in the appartament and possible rambling. It was time to see some nature in the SD area and head inland about 45miles to what is known as La Jolla Indian Reservation Campground. What promised to be a simple day of some boozing and hanging out in the river turned out to be a bit more than we bargained for, in a good way.
Hotter temperatures and a trip to Oceanside to visit friends pulls the nomads away from inland and SDSU campus. New beach discovered - Ocean Beach - by us, other people already live here. Time closing in on what could be San Diego part one, or just another step in the leg of the nomad journey. Will come back and pull up the tent stakes in San Diego, or push north to the Bay Area or even Oregon. Click to read the full post.
A random drive yesterday after a very uncomfortable public library by our Balboa 24 Fitness found us near SDSU. We figured internet and places open late would be in this area. Its looking to prove to be pretty solid as we spend the day at the university library and George digs his head into the stacks. I’m finding myself productive being surrounded by similar aged people getting work done. The campus is very pretty and I just found that we have a 24 Hour Fitness and a Walmart extremely close by. Couple that with the very good wifi at the coffee house that is open until 2am that we patroned last night and it looks like we may have found a new home.
What do you do when you want to be a clean homeless person? Let me break down some of the options.
Option 1: Clean yourself with wet naps, baby wipes, wash up in sinks in bathrooms.
Option 2: Visit truck stops and pay a fee of anywhere from $2-$10 per shower. Expose yourself to whatever may be in truck stop showers -_^
Option 3: RV parks, campgrounds, and some hotels will also get you a shower. These are more inconsistent and definitely not a very viable option in a city.
Option 4: Combination. Take a shower when you can.
Van Nomads is my story of adventure, travel, and lots of libraries. On June 12, 2009 I left home with my comrad George to find what needed to be sought. This blog attempts to chronicle that adventure in some fashion or another. The full story is yet to be told however. For more info check out the full about page.
