Advice From the Experts

 Two things that have been consistent in our lives throughout the past five years:  1.) we live a very unique lifestyle, and 2.) it is very unusual for us to complain. 

We honestly believe we are living a dream.  A dream that involves traveling to over seventy diverse destinations in 48 of the 50 continental United States as our job.  We know very few people who wouldn’t jump at this once in a lifetime opportunity, so believe us when we say, “we don’t take it for granted and we appreciate living our unique lifestyle too much to consider complaining.”

So please don’t take this as a complaint:   On Saturday September 4^th we were robbed. Read the rest of this entry »

To Our Nephew Matt,

Teenagers are resilient.  The Life of a teenager is not easy.  Things are coming at you pretty fast as a teenager.  Changes that appear to creep in slow and steady when perceived from a distance (the perception of an aunt and uncle who spend most of the year traveling the country for instance) are actually occurring with each rapid and raging new impression a teenager is exposed to, impressions that intrude their influence on the developing minds, bodies and worldviews of today’s teenagers (teenagers like you, our Nephew Matt, for instance), impressions that are creating our world’s future.

We know that may sound a bit heavy on the philosophical side of things, but we just spent a week with a teenager, and for a couple of non-parents, that experience is without a doubt, deep.   Read the rest of this entry »

  Sheri and Randy Propster (Brand Ambassadors for Backpacker Magazine’s Get Out More Tour presented by Woolrich) packed a few life list locations into their commute to work today.  To say the Get Out More Team doesn’t have a typical commute would definitely be considered an understatement… Read the rest of this entry »

We’re outside tonight and once again it’s different.

At this time of the night, the last night we were outside, the temperature was much warmer (not that it’s cold tonight by any stretch of the imagination, but it is comfortable when compared to the “couldn’t get inside our sleeping bags kind of hot” we experienced the last night), and the last night we camped it was definitely far more humid, the skies were cloudy and the stars weren’t much for gazing.  Worst of all, the last time we camped out we didn’t see any wildlife and don’t recall hearing any either. 
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 Some days are memorable. 

Some days come and go with the passing of time and seem to slip through our memory’s grip.  Some days, on the other hand, are unforgettable…

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Safety and Comfort in the backcountry require attention to the Essentials.  The Essential Systems offer travelers a sort of checklist that will enable them to travel safely and with a level of preparedness that will allow them to respond positively to any accidents or emergencies….
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The common thread, if you search with due diligence that is what you will find, the common thread.

 Sure, the checked pattern that makes up each of our individual lives is undoubtedly unique and we all take great care to put details in the fabric that will define our lives, but if we step back and see things from a proper distance the perfect plaid is exposed. Read the rest of this entry »

What is in your backpack?  …What does your backpack weigh?  …How much would all of that cost?  Each of these questions has been asked multiple times to the Get Out More Team.  The best answer we have ever and could ever give to any of those questions has always been… 
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