Nice forum.
I live in southern NJ and most of my adventuring nowadays is done on the saddle of my Russian sidecar motorcycle. It's a Ural. With 2WD and a reverse gear. No machine gun, though. I pack all I need and camp my way there and back. This August I went 2100 miles touring the back roads, dirt roads and some trails of New England. Last year it was the Great Smokey Mountains.
Scouts, military service (USAF), USAF winter survival training in Fairbanks AK, camping since I was a kid, backpacking a bit, canoe trips, offshore sailing, coastal sailing, 4x4 offroading, enduro racing, and hitchiking as a kid are all part of my past experiences.
I trapped as a kid, hunted small game (but don't remember how to skin what I kill), I can fish and clean and cook what I catch, and I can recognize which kind of fruit is growing in a farmer's orchard.
I can build a fire using any combinations of trioxane, magnesium, matches, dryer lint, Bic lighters, flint and steel, birch bark, arcing of a battery, polished bottom of a Coke can, magnifying glass, and yes, even two sticks.
I currently run my own business selling photo ID card systems. As soon as I hit the lottery, though, I will be moving to TN in a house I'll build with solar power, a french fry oil powered generator in the barn, some fruit trees out back, black raspberry bushes down by the road, a large barn and perhaps a still back up the holler a bit...
A man can dream, can't he?
