The Rugged 2022 Subaru Outback Wilderness Edition

Subaru is expected to release a more capable, adventure-ready Subaru Outback Wilderness Edition. Is it the softroad Overland platform we've all been pining for? I’ve had a few email exchanges over the years with marketing staff at Subaru of America primarily in an effort to entice the company to partner with 4XPEDITION in a joint [...]
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Gratitude on Giving Thanks Day

The circle of life swings around each and every Thanksgiving for me and returns me once again to a place of reflection. I ask myself if I have lived the past year with gratitude. Thanksgiving is just another day. But, the true beauty of our desire to recognize a day for 'thankfulness' is that it [...]
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Assistant Position

I need help. There, I've said it. I need an assistant. 4XPEDITION needs to grow and to do so I need some help. I need someone who can handle a variety of different tasks. Someone who is on top of it all. Someone driven, motivated, owns the role and executes. Someone who thinks of tasks [...]
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Putting Distance Between You and Your Comfort Zone

Each spring I find myself coming down with a bug. There are never advertisements on the radio for shots that can be taken for what I experience, yet it arrives around the same time each year without fail. My experience becomes an unavoidable desire to spread wings and soar to far-distant corners of this magnificent [...]
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Finding Clarity in Unpredictable Times

Creating focus and clarity in your life can oftentimes be a difficult task. Remaining focused is even harder. There are so many options, possibilities, distractions, diversions, and so forth, to persuade us away from core initiatives. In our lives, we embark on many varying 'micro-adventures' that ultimately, with their ups and downs, create the fabric [...]
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The Nature of Deeply Rooted Trees

I have planted and nurtured many trees in my life–some with real roots, bark and leaves, and others as commitments and promises to myself and others. For over 30 years I have lived in a desert environment. I find it so fascinating to witness the resilience of a tree in the desert that found its [...]
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SUP With Your Pup

There is no question that standup paddleboarding has taken off as it is a great and affordable way to get out on the water. There is SUP. Then there are SUP expeditions. The best, however, are SUP expeditions with your pup. As a long-time water sports enthusiast and a history of working on the water, [...]
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Self-Reliance in Suburbia

For several years, I had been planning to finish my backyard off with a swimming pool, a few flower beds, and a citrus grove of four citrus trees. My home and yard décor had been an old-world Italian theme and the part of our backyard that was near completion featured beautiful stone walls, columns, and [...]
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The Genius of Self-Reliance

I have found there to be such a deeply rooted relationship between our internal evolution of Self with our association as a living, breathing human being within our natural surroundings. I have been pondering this concept of self-reliance and the attraction to societal conveniences lately, all while meeting and interacting with a number of new [...]
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