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Bear and Loki

A stop at home while poor Bear’s butt is getting better.

My new dog loves playing ball. He missed this shot, but such a great jump.

I took my new dog to my favourite camping ground. It was a bit surreal.

I have changed my van around a bit, but still haven’t decorated it inside, although I have most of the materials to do so.

First camping trip with my beautiful new dog. Such great company and cuddles.

Slightly different set up with my new mesh room.

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While travelling in my campervan, I love going for morning walks. The last few mornings I have seen some amazing and spectacular dew covered spider webs

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I have travelled to where my Grandparents used to lived when my Mum was young.

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Currently parked in my parent’s driveway while my dog gets better. They have acreage and it’s gorgeous land (and house). I feel like I’m in a botanical gardens from this photo

I met up with a girl who had the same van as mine. We stayed at a couple of free camps together. It looks like we are trying to hide behind trees here . We stayed at a lovely little town here that had good amenities and a cool pub. I don’t drink, but my van friend did, so we walked to the pub. It was decorated with record album covers. They let us choose the music and they cranked up the volume. Lots of fun. I normally love staying in the bush, but I find the hospitality in small towns to be great.

Oops. My light fell off

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What are you and your sweetheart doing this weekend?
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So thisis what life on the road is about. Meeting up with new ‘old’ friends (hey hey @slowcarfasthome) looking over maps, giving rig tours, showing each other our homes, discussing our adventures, or generally getting stoked on life.
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What you can’t tell from this shot is that we’re doing ALL that in a Walmart parking lot. So yea. Put that on the list of things I never thought I’d do: call a Walmart of Idaho Falls my home. Thanks for being so cozy.
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(at Walmart Idaho Falls)

Photo number 2 on this #twofortuesday is our 1964 #clarkcortez parked close to the summit of Togwotee pass.
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You can find this epic spot East of Jackson in the rugged and wild Absaroka range of North-West Wyoming. Fun fact: I spent 2 weeks backcountry ski touring at this very spot on a NOLS semester course back in 2007.
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I shot this photo with my #fujixt2 and 23mm f/1.4 lens. I composited multiple exposures using a technique called #focusstacking to get the mountains, RV, and log in the foreground all sharp. I also included two exposures in this composite that were shot at two-minutes+ length using a 15-stop @leefilters Superstopper to achieve the creamy sky and pond surface.
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It was a complex photo to produce but I think it was worth the effort.
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I remember this moment well. Not one week into our third roadtrip, still giddy with the highs of freedom, we had just entered the French Alps. It was our plan to cross the length of the Alps in their 1,200km entirety, a feat we were not sure had been accomplished yet by road.

Except our van was beginning to make some worryingly loud noises as we decelerated down a hill, and we rolled into the town of Briançon with our first bout of breakdown anxiety.

It was here in the confines of a LIDL carpark that we identified a propshaft issue, but, unable to find a French mechanic who was willing to work on a weekend, we pressed on.

We spent a chilly but scenic night at just shy of 2,000m high on the shores of Lac du Mont-Cenis then pushed on toward Italy in the morning. Shortly after crossing the border however, the noise was now a permanent feature and a growing concern, until finally we pulled over and phoned for a recovery truck outside an Italian cafe. We spent five hours here waiting for rescue, drinking espresso, chatting with the locals in my best Italian, then finally succumbing to boredom and heat fatigue as we baked in the sun at the roadside.

After a good long while we were taken down the mountain on the back of a tow truck and it was just like the good old days, as though we’d never left the continent in our (t)rusty LDV. We were offered a hotel and help with the repair bill by our breakdown company, but I insisted we stay with the van. Much to everyone else’s chagrin we three spent a cold, miserable night confined to our quarters in the garage courtyard, dreaming of the hot shower and comfy bed we could’ve had.

But I knew I was right in my decision, and if three years of travelling thus far had taught me anything it was this: the van was our comfort, our safety, our home. When she stops we stop, and where she goes we go.

~ This image was created as part of our “Transient” travelogue project. ~ Stepping away from the Instagram frivolities and fakery, “Transient” serves as a close and intimate portrayal of our lives in an attempt to remove the romanticism of travel and capture a raw and honest self-documentary inspired by the images and stories of the new age travellers of 1980’s Britain.You can view the full project and others over on our website lbjournals.com.