The plan is to give this thing a floor to fuselage off-grid, green remodel and then tow it around the country teaching kayak building for a year and meeting and writing about people living similar small homestead and/or off-grid lifestyles. For those of you interested in hosting a class, all I need is 4-6 willing victims, a space at least 25 x 40, and somewhere to park the trailer. I’ll be collecting stops over the next five months and then we’ll stitch them together into a cross country itinerary. Other than that, I’m not quite sure what’s going to happen. I’m hoping the illness and the injury will hurry up and heal a little faster already but I figure hey, if you’re going to be under the weather, you might as well do it in a totally pimped-out vintage trailer on a transcontinental road trip to build boats educate people about living more sustainably. Right?
For this project I’m using a much more dynamic blog interface so make sure to follow the RSS feed on the building blog, it should be a lot of fun! Follow the website and join me on the adventure! offgridairstream.net
Brian- kayak builder, future aluminum spaceship pilot.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” I think Hunter Thompson said that. I’ve always interpreted that phrase as an imperative to respond to the wild and unfair twists that life throws at you with equal measure. As some of you know, I’ve been fighting a battle against a still undiagnosed neurological/endocrine illness, and a pretty serious skeletal injury for the better part of the last two years. It’s getting a little better, but it’s a slow road with lots of time to contemplate where I am and where I want to be heading in life. With the farm mostly self sustaining now, I’ve been feeling drawn to reach out and say yes to so many of the opportunities I’ve said no to over the years, as well as get more serious about some of my other side projects. I didn’t quite know what form that was going to take until a certain handsome vintage trailer came into my life last month.
As someone who literally built a successful off-grid organic farm “because I didn’t have anything else going on that week,” I’d be lying to say that I don’t take a certain pleasure in making major life decisions on whimsical premises. My latest adventure: The off-grid Airstream
July 2014
Bryan, If you add an RSS feed to http://www.offgridairstream.net/ then people can get your feed automatically through Feedly or other feed readers.
Love the Airstream! Best.
July 2014
Just when I start thinking I should get my camper serviced up for a long trip to Oregon next summer, you go and gear yourself up! No worries Mate, you’re always welcome to park it at Candy Hill anytime. But I think the last few classes at Delmarva have depleted the pool of willing victims locally, so…
August 2014
That’s awesome Brian– remodeling the camper and trekking cross country teaching classes. So many folks would give their lifeblood to be able to do this. I am spreading the word abroad here in North Carolina, trying to raise some awareness for you and hopefully secure a pit stop here in North Carolina. If I had my shop built already you could come visit the eastern part of the state.
One of these days when I do, I do plan on calling you and having you come over. I have been following you for sometime now, so we will try to stay in touch.
Chris
Eastern NC
January 2015
Brian, get well and come to Colorado. You can park in my Airstream courtesy parking with power and water hookups and can teach inside the Airstream hangar, about 2500 square feet. I think I can scare up 6 victims for a 2016 class.
January 2015
Heck, I would love to be one of them Roger. The drive to Colorado, hanging out with you and Brian and learning the craft…would be like dying and going to heaven…Lol..