Van Life - Hiking and Beer Tasting in Bend Oregon
Day 29-30 on the Road - Our first two days in Bend, OR were spent working in an awesome coffee shop called Crow's Feet Commons located downtown and right off the river. We scouted the Deschutes National Forest for some free sites to camp in, but the roads got worse the further we went....making Ryan realize that we're going to need a new 4WD van... We didn't find a great spot, but ended up grabbing a beer with friends from Becky's hometown, who had an extra parking spot at their house and kindly let us park in it for the night.
The next day, after work and a bit of exploring the downtown area, we trekked up to Tumalo Falls for a late afternoon hike in the mist to see some gorgeous waterfalls. It was a nice hike along the water, not too strenuous and plenty of view points.
After, we met up with friends at Crux Brewery, which was fantastic. You'd appreciate how much craft goes into everything there. We received some great education on their beer, how they got started, and the food was amazing. The cheeseboard had freakin' smoked grapes and a bacon, beer butter spread..everything was to die for. Outside they have fire pits, lawn games, bistro lights, and picnic tables...a great space for people to bring dogs and even for kids during the day. We loved it.
After socialized we went back to Tumalo State Park and shared a site with our friends the Javureks (@sprint2explore). We were stoked to have a site that would fit two Sprinter vans to help us save $$!
How did we do it? Check out our DIY Sprinter Van Build Video here:
Van Essentials & Gear links:
Goal Zero Yeti 400
Bed - LUCID 4 Inch Folding Mattress - Full Size:
Reflectix Insulation:
Pelican 20QT Elite Cooler
Pelican 50Liter Elite Cooler
Puck lights - Capstone 6 LED Wireless Puck Lights with Remote Control(we found them at Costco, but Amazon has them as well):
The Puck Lights take rechargeable batteries:
Non-Slip Drawer/Shelf Liner:
Jetboil:
Car Seat Covers:
Camp Chairs:
UE Boom Bluetooth Speaker:
Small Oak Barrel in Bar (actually ages your own spirits):
Ikea TROFAST Totes
Ikea BJÖRNLOKA Duvet Cover
Lodge Dutch Oven:
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GoPro Hero4 Black:
Joby Gorilla Pod:
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde. The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts. The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging. The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered a work of classic gothic fiction with a strong Faustian theme.
Preface - 00:00
Chapter 01 - 2:55
Chapter 02 - 38:12
Chapter 03 - 1:18:35
Chapter 04 - 1:50:48
Chapter 05 - 2:30:11
Chapter 06 - 3:01:40
Chapter 07 - 3:22:16
Chapter 08 - 3:53:54
Chapter 09 - 4:31:55
Chapter 10 - 4:59:31
Chapter 11 - 5:20:54
Chapter 12 - 6:11:08
Chapter 13 - 6:29:45
Chapter 14 - 6:47:54
Chapter 15 - 7:22:03
Chapter 16 - 7:44:19
Chapter 17 - 8:06:46
Chapter 18 - 8:20:38
Chapter 19 - 8:44:12
Chapter 20 - 9:10:16
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David Copperfield Audiobook by Charles Dickens | Audiobook with Subtitles | Part 1
David Copperfield (version 2) Charles DICKENS
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration. The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David's father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother remarries but David and his step-father don’t get on and he is sent to boarding school. As David settles into life we are taken along with him and meet a dazzling array of characters, some of whom we will never forget and some of whom we won't want to remember! (Introduction by Wikipedia & T.Hynes)
Genre(s): General Fiction, Literary Fiction
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The Mill on the Floss Audiobook by George Eliot | Full Audiobook | Part 1
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes.
Maggie Tulliver holds the central role in the book, as both her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem, a hunchbacked, but sensitive and intellectual, friend, and with Stephen Guest, a vivacious young socialite in St. Oggs and fiance of Maggie’s cousin Lucy Deane, constitute the most significant narrative threads. (summary from Wikipedia)
The Mill on the Floss
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
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