About the Author

I'm an Automotive Engineer by trade, and when I'm not at work my other full time job is being dad.  I don't get nearly as much time to ride, hunt, fish, and camp as I would like but I do it when I can.  I try to involve my kids in my activities as much as possible, and when were lucky my wife and I will be spending some time riding together soon.

Because I have limited time to get out into the woods I tend to spend a lot of time daydreaming about the next trip and what gear to take.  This drives me to read product reviews endlessly, but most of them are a couple sentences to a paragraph at most.  This blog is an attempt to review the products I try out with a little more detail and hands on use than the general Amazon review gives you.  If I haven't actually tried a product on a trip or used it in my day to day life I'm not going to post about it.

I can be reached at MinimalistAdventureRider@gmail.com

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