Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Yesterday my step dad took me out on my first snow mobile trip ever. I had so much fun! The places that snow mobiles can go, and the speeds that they can do it at are amazing. It was pretty cool to see a lot of the back country that I’ve been exploring for much [...]

In the Previous Article I talked about my reasons for choosing the Toyota as the platfom to build my overland travel vehicle off of. Now I’ll go into detail about the things I’ve done to the rig to make it more capable of getting me where I want to go. In this article I will [...]

June 2006 was a turning point in my life. It was the first time that I owned a vehicle that was not only capable of taking me cross country, but it was just as capable off road. Not only that, but this was the first time in my life that I had an opportunity to [...]

I’ve been wanting to ride the train over the Sierra Nevada’s for quite some time now, and I finally got my chance. There’s quite a bit of good things to see along the way, I really enjoyed it. Going of the mountains, and through the snow sheds on the side of hill is a pretty [...]

I had to sneak over to a Starbucks coffee to get a little time on the net, but things are going well out here in Orem. It’s a beautiful place, the mountains surround the city have a beauty that I cannot describe, and to make them even more beautiful, they are covered in snow right [...]

Toyota is known world-wide for building extremely reliable stout 4×4’s, and it’s been proven for going on 30 years now. With a reputation like that, I decided to build up a Toyota 4×4 for my own travels. I’m quite familiar with them, considering this is my fourth build up. Prior to this I’ve built an [...]

My name is Clayton Collins. I was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, a small town called Nevada City, California. I was always on the move as a child, and then as an adult I went th
I’m a 33 year old male, with two children. When I can, I like to include them [...]

I’m back in La Paz now, the boat will be tied up for the rest of my rotation. I’ll be spending the next couple of days cleaning and fixing everything that needs it, and getting it ready for the rest of the year. Like I said before, it’s pretty close already, it shouldn’t be too [...]

Tonight is the last night of my last Baja cruise for this rotation. The seas have been pretty rough, so we have spent the last two days just cruising from beach to beach around the island of Espiritu Santo. It’s been kind of interesting to see some of the parts of the island we don’t [...]

Today we made it back up to Loreto Marine Park, where we stopped at Isla Santa Catalina. There were some great bow riding dolphins on the way in, we had the bow camera going and people were loving it. I was loving it too! I actually haven’t really got to see too many dolphins [...]