Mixing Business with Pleasure
It’s been a few months since I wrote an “on the road” entry. That’s the downside (and upside) to rural living: you can do a 100+ mile wilderness trek and be home for dinner, but you get far less of that long highway to ponder life like you do on a multi-day excursion. Yes, I actually enjoy those long highway hours…
Today I find myself climbing up the hill to the overlanding Mecca: Prescott, Arizona. Its funny, when we started marketing Enfluence a few weeks ago, my friend Drawk asked me what I really wanted to do if I could do anything. My answer was continue exploring farther and farther out into the world (preferably via Land Rover on dirt roads), and find a way to make a living doing it. While I enjoy design and production very much, it has always felt like a means to an end. So naturally when Scott asked if I would be interested in doing what I do for Overland Journal I jumped at the opportunity. Work I like to do, on a product that’s right at the core of my own interests? It’s win-win.
Taking that opportunity means leaving our rural lifestyle for the big-little town of Prescott, but I count that in the “plus” column. As much as I love it out here, I’ve missed having an open downtown we can enjoy. It’s pretty clear Danielle feels the same way.
