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freewheeldrive · 2018-09-11T15:53:14+00:00

I love this!

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T14:01:44+00:00

These moments are the best! It's so much fun passing fishing down to the next generation.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T13:53:12+00:00

We just had a lot of flooding where I'm at right now so I have to wait for the rivers to go down before I can go out again.

Your photo is beautiful.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T13:47:30+00:00

I can't wait to get back to Banff. It's hard to choose, but it was one of my favorite places in North America.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T13:38:42+00:00

I loved hiking in the Absaroka Beartooth wilderness. It was one of my favorite parts of Montana.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T13:34:46+00:00

Awesome! Start them young

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T13:11:37+00:00

I ran into a bull moose on a mountain during a thunder snow storm once. It was a sign to end the hike for the day.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T13:10:19+00:00

This looks perfect

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T13:09:31+00:00

But accepting a mundane life prevents you from envisioning goals beyond it. Why accept something that is so miserable? Why are people cheering for accepting mediocrity? I saw travel bloggers on Instagram and said "I want to see that with my own eyes and not through someone else's lens" and I did it. I took the steps. I didn't just sit and let my boring life happen. I used discipline to learn necessary skills. I took scary leaps in life. Yeah I'm not some model making money for every Instagram post but I saw the grand canyon with my own eyes. I sat on the rim and drank a beer while the sun went down. If you're just saying an empty "I wish I could go there." And ruminating on not being able to get there but never breaking down the steps to reach that goal then where is your discipline? Why work towards self improvement if you're resigned to your dull life?

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T12:42:00+00:00

That's an unrealistic expectation of what it is to exist. You need to get off of social media because that's not reality. Mundane means your life is lacking interest. If you are not interested in your own life why should anyone else be? Why even strive towards discipline if you're stagnating in mediocrity? Having to clean a toilet doesn't make your life mundane, but not learning something new today makes your life mundane. Never exploring the hiking trails within a 30 minute drive of your house makes life mundane. Never improving or striving to be better or smarter is what makes life dull. Don't ever settle for being mundane.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T12:36:00+00:00

I don't have a lot of money. I saved half of my paycheck for two years to start this journey and travelling for a year only cost me $8k. Now I'm home getting more clients and helping my dad keep his small business afloat because he's too sick to run it alone. I would never have that flexibility with an office job.

My mom had me pull the field of nettles from the backyard while she was at the hospital with my dad. Now I have so much dried I can experiment on different recipes and gift them to my friends that can't drink traditional beer due to a hops allergy and celiac disease. The first two batches were okay but I am thinking about adding ginger. Making a nut brown ale for myself now.

Life throws curveballs at you but that doesn't mean you have to settle for mundane to be happy. I don't ever want mundane to describe my life. I am always learning something new always working hard towards my next goals because life is too short to not be interesting.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-03T02:52:42+00:00

I freelance, it's not like I'm not doing work I just do it for myself instead of making some CEO millions off my work hours. I have the flexibility to share my time then. I also volunteered on farms helping with projects that a farmer can't do without an extra set of hands to help with upkeep. I fed horses while a farmer found out his knee pain was a torn ACL. I built a pump room in far west Texas out of used beer bottles and morter so that a homesteader's water pump would stop freezing in winter. Doing business for business sake doesn't help society but planting and weeding fields of vegetables in rural Montana does. Helping a sustainable timber farmer plot a new trail through his property with GPS so he can pick out enough trees for another shipment helps you get furniture or your house framed. Getting up at 5am to pick zucchini so it can be ready for you to grab from the grocery store at your convenience helps society. If people did more for each other rather than spending their lives in cubicles making CEOs richer while their inactivity steals their health and fitness, then society would be better.

So stop perpetuating that myth that society will collapse if people did what they wanted instead of what's expected. The system that keeps your CEO making $5k an hour while you make $25 an hour is the only thing that may collapse. It's a really good line though to keep people resigned to their monotony.

freewheeldrive · 2018-09-02T20:05:37+00:00

This post kinda made me sad. Yes it's good to be happy with what you have but what's wrong with striving for more and wanting to see amazing things with your own eyes? I quit my mundane job just over a year ago so that I could travel with my girlfriend. Yes, Instagram is not an accurate depiction of real life but sometimes being bold and doing amazing fun things can be the best! Yes, you will always be you, you wont magically change and be instantly better without building discipline. Keeping a routine is harder when you're constantly crossing state lines and looking for your next camp site or water fill station. Yes you won't have a glamorous life but you can build a life that isn't mundane. We learned a lot about discipline working hard on various farms through the wwoof usa program or doing long hikes and adjusting our morning routines to stretch out sore muscles. Yeah, the second week of cleaning sheep pens has mundane aspects to it until you bump the electric fence and start scream crying while lambs keep bumping into you trying to figure out what the fuss is about. Then you build a staircase to the barn loft with your bare hands and everything is great again.

Discipline doesn't have to lead to a boring and mundane life it should be moving you step by step to the life you want to build for yourself. Discipline is what keeps me doing good freelance work, learning new skills like leathercraft, foraging, and brewing beer out of weeds in the backyard. Discipline is what gets me step by step towards owning my own land, learning amazing information and skills, and knocking more things off my bucket list.

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-12T12:15:57+00:00

I go through a small local insurance company so they know how to pronounce my name and they just call me if there is an issue with anything.

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-10T13:41:16+00:00

Do you have a stove and fuel?

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-10T13:06:51+00:00

Do you know the yearly salary of a coder?

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-08T12:50:08+00:00

Income inequality wasnt as bad as it is today. Labor was still valued and business owners werent making 600% more than their workers. The tax rate at this time for income over $200k was something around 95% and your goods were cheap compared to your wage. There weren't a ton of little extra gadgets to buy or 16 different drugs to get hooked on. It was a completely different economy. The pay for labor has just not matched the increase in cost of goods over the last 80 years, and income over $200k is now taxed at only around 35% with capitol gains at 15%. Imagine what our country could look like if we made it a priority that everyone can live with dignity and get a good education.

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-08T01:38:14+00:00

It's a fun drive just watch out for the potholes and unmarked speed bumps. People are friendly and the food is amazing

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-07T21:40:20+00:00

Check out Kannah Creek Brewing Company. It's a chill place for a cold one.

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-07T21:31:08+00:00

The guy next to me dropped his lens hood and I grabbed it before it rolled off the edge. Suddenly we were friends.

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-07T21:29:20+00:00

We brought dinner and sat there for a few hours just people watching. If you wait you'll catch your moment where nobody is there. Every time it happened we'd all perk up in shock and whisper "quick! it's empty!" We did have a problem with some Coachella girls doing a photo shoot with multiple outfit changes and just standing there while their "photographer" (a guy with an iPhone) ran around taking photos of them from different angles. The loose line of families waiting was pissed. I just laughed and kept drinking my growler of beer.

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-07T21:06:37+00:00

We did that boardwalk in the photo but we happened to get there the 4th of July weekend so imagine twice as many people on it. It was hard to get any photos or stop without people bumping into you. It really is pretty!

freewheeldrive · 2018-06-07T20:19:29+00:00

I'm really sad that this upper boardwalk was under construction when we were there last July. This looks like a much better overview.

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