As important as cameras are to photography, they are useless unless you can get the camera into position--which has been known to mean a journey of several thousand miles and not a few obsticals. Sometimes a boat is handy. .. and often a bicycle.

I value the 4-wheel drive and its low speed geering [in the low range]. In the rain, the canoe is a roof over the tailgate. The camper shell keeps you up away from the ticks and chiggers, and you don't have to set it up every night. Not only does a mountain bike save time and energy, it makes for a good emergency vehicle should you get stuck miles from nowhere.

My particular rig is a 1984 Nissan King Cab pick-up with a little 4 cylindar engine. It has always started for 20 yrs., so I've stuck with it. I've got the camper outfitted with a custom shaped foam mattress and two marine batteries to drive my 12v food cooler. Grasshoppers ate my plastic bug screens, so I've got aluminum barriers, now. Just being up on wheels keeps the insect menace within tolerance, usually. A fan helps in the rain. This truck has been my home for a good portion of its life, and thus has been instrumental iin most every photograph in my collection. The truck itself isn't much to look at, covered with mud half the time, so I share a romantic version of it with you, and leave you to your own poison. I'm not out to sell trucks.

	Z