Putts
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Hi! I'm Putts.
Putt is the name of my...um, camper.
Yeah, I know it's stupid. See, I'm Putts on ADVrider.com, too. I used Putts because I putt around on motorcycles, and I don't go fast. My main bike is a KLR, but I've had/have quite a few. (FJR, TW200, XT350, TT350, CB360, TY125, TY250, R80G/S) Obviously, other than the KLR that rules the world for a cheap bike that will get you anywhere on the planet, the Beemer that's a friggen classic, and the Honda which was a basket case that fell in my lap, I'm a Yamaha guy. Anyway, when I started to post what I was doing with my camper (in a smaller private adventure motorcycle forum) those guys thought it would be a hoot if named my truck Putt so that I could have my travel thread titled "Putts putts in Putt." Ha, ha. Oh well, it stuck.
Mainly I ride bike to go on adventures. I love to travel and see stuff. And I love the natural world, so I tend to explore the less populated places...little towns, old mines, you know. Me and my buddy Paul sometimes do summer vacations where we travel maybe 800 miles over the course of the week going from one forest service cabin to another, staying off pavement as much as possible. Great stuff.
Sheesh...time for a pic or two. This was a trip with a bunch of guys.
But I'm done. I've done my bit; raised a family, run a business, had an influence, made friends, ect. Im ready for me adventuring full time in retirement. I'm also sick, fed up, and tired of the rat race. I know I can't talk politics and such here, but I'll just say the modern world seems so absurd to me. I want to live a simpler life. I want to smell the rain and live with it's chill. I want the work pace of my life to be determined by the smell of my clothes. I want to finally have the time to practice my ukulele. I'm lucky enough to be in the diminishing middle class, but I've had three wives, so the only retirement security I'll have is the gain on my house, a Social Security check, and the fact that Putt is owned free and clear when I drive into the unknown.
At the moment I've still got a good paying job that nets me enough to do a good, but simple, build with Putt. Simple is key to understanding where I'm going with this. Putt's defining feature will be it's ability to support me a month at a time without resupply. I struggled with whether to call Putt and RV or a tiny home---as it will be my permanent home for the next couple of decades. (Knock wood.) I ended up deciding to call Putt a camper...it'll be the bitchenist hard side tent evar.
I'm about 1/4 done with the build right now, but I figure I'll just tell the story from the beginning here and work my way up to the moment. The good news is we'll progress at a lovely clip condensing months into days; the bad news is, when we get up to the current moment we're going to slam into the glacial pace of how this actually goes. I will, however, slow down my current postings by getting up to speed on who the hell I'm talking too at CRVL and the other builds and forum areas around here.
I'm used to forums both big and small in the motorcycle world. ADVrider.com may have 4000 people logged-in at any time; the other little private place I live may have 40. This place is about 400 and that seems like a really nice size to me. The other thing is having looked around at a number of other places, this place seems to have a vibe I like. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like good, simple people who like being out doors and watching a campfire rather than a TV. Thanks for being here, I'll try not to be a dick.
Guess I better push the button on this one. I've set aside some time to work on this tonight, so I'll post up a better intro on Putt here in a just a bit.
Putt is the name of my...um, camper.
Yeah, I know it's stupid. See, I'm Putts on ADVrider.com, too. I used Putts because I putt around on motorcycles, and I don't go fast. My main bike is a KLR, but I've had/have quite a few. (FJR, TW200, XT350, TT350, CB360, TY125, TY250, R80G/S) Obviously, other than the KLR that rules the world for a cheap bike that will get you anywhere on the planet, the Beemer that's a friggen classic, and the Honda which was a basket case that fell in my lap, I'm a Yamaha guy. Anyway, when I started to post what I was doing with my camper (in a smaller private adventure motorcycle forum) those guys thought it would be a hoot if named my truck Putt so that I could have my travel thread titled "Putts putts in Putt." Ha, ha. Oh well, it stuck.
Mainly I ride bike to go on adventures. I love to travel and see stuff. And I love the natural world, so I tend to explore the less populated places...little towns, old mines, you know. Me and my buddy Paul sometimes do summer vacations where we travel maybe 800 miles over the course of the week going from one forest service cabin to another, staying off pavement as much as possible. Great stuff.
Sheesh...time for a pic or two. This was a trip with a bunch of guys.
But I'm done. I've done my bit; raised a family, run a business, had an influence, made friends, ect. Im ready for me adventuring full time in retirement. I'm also sick, fed up, and tired of the rat race. I know I can't talk politics and such here, but I'll just say the modern world seems so absurd to me. I want to live a simpler life. I want to smell the rain and live with it's chill. I want the work pace of my life to be determined by the smell of my clothes. I want to finally have the time to practice my ukulele. I'm lucky enough to be in the diminishing middle class, but I've had three wives, so the only retirement security I'll have is the gain on my house, a Social Security check, and the fact that Putt is owned free and clear when I drive into the unknown.
At the moment I've still got a good paying job that nets me enough to do a good, but simple, build with Putt. Simple is key to understanding where I'm going with this. Putt's defining feature will be it's ability to support me a month at a time without resupply. I struggled with whether to call Putt and RV or a tiny home---as it will be my permanent home for the next couple of decades. (Knock wood.) I ended up deciding to call Putt a camper...it'll be the bitchenist hard side tent evar.
I'm about 1/4 done with the build right now, but I figure I'll just tell the story from the beginning here and work my way up to the moment. The good news is we'll progress at a lovely clip condensing months into days; the bad news is, when we get up to the current moment we're going to slam into the glacial pace of how this actually goes. I will, however, slow down my current postings by getting up to speed on who the hell I'm talking too at CRVL and the other builds and forum areas around here.
I'm used to forums both big and small in the motorcycle world. ADVrider.com may have 4000 people logged-in at any time; the other little private place I live may have 40. This place is about 400 and that seems like a really nice size to me. The other thing is having looked around at a number of other places, this place seems to have a vibe I like. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like good, simple people who like being out doors and watching a campfire rather than a TV. Thanks for being here, I'll try not to be a dick.
Guess I better push the button on this one. I've set aside some time to work on this tonight, so I'll post up a better intro on Putt here in a just a bit.