When a company brags about how well-made and how well-engineered their product is, you want to believe them, you want it to be true that their product is well-made and well-engineered. And for the most part, the Quikrstuff bike rack…
Noovo, as I’ve said before, does a great job of detailing what they add to the ProMaster, but not as good of a job in detailing what options are on the ProMaster chassis that they are building upon. They buy…
I used to call Barstow the armpit of California. All I saw and all most people see is the grungy pass-through road heading out into the desert, next stop Las Vegas. But I’ve come to learn that Barstow has its…
Forty-five minutes northeast of the van manufacturer Noovo, which is to say forty-five minutes northeast of Las Vegas, is the primordial Valley of Fire. It’s a state park, and a small one, but–my god–if you haven’t been here, I can…
One thing my big camera lacks is a GPS. My wife and I drove down from California to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the opening of an exhibition of my work (See American Nukes: Photographs and Texts by Darin Boville) at…
Five months after putting down a deposit, our van has entered production. It will take about two weeks to build and then two more weeks to quality-check. Pick up will be in early April. This is really happening! All photos…
I see a lot of RVs in our neighborhood, and I see a lot of RVs parked in driveways in our neighborhood for months on end. To me, that’s a reality check worth thinking about before you buy your own…
If you’ve ever purchased clothing online, you already know what I’m going to say: Judging color online—if you are at all picky—is nearly impossible. The simple reason is that most digital cameras are not designed to give accurate colors, most…
A few years back, I bought an expensive bike rack, a Thule that had a swing-arm that allowed me to move bikes out of the way when I wanted to open the rear hatch of my FJ Cruiser. It was…
We live in an area with an abundance of bike-friendly trails, so I thought it was about time we got bikes. Of course, we bought e-bikes. I looked at several brands, especially Aventon and Lectric. Aventon didn’t offer a good…
