03/02/2025
“So where were you guys during the p*ndemic?” Probably cooking on our camp stove at a dispersed campsite somewhere in the PNW and living out of a car we converted into a camper for 6 months is the best answer I’ve got. 🌲🚙⛺️
When borders were announced to be closing, we were in London. Luckily, a friend let us squeeze into his studio apartment until we were all able to fly to Texas where our families were. After a few months of isolating, we purchased a Subaru Outback, picked specifically because it was long enough for a 6’5 person to sleep in the back.
We built the platform bed with space for storage underneath and packed up all of our climbing gear into our roof rack. Our goal was to drive from Texas to Washington and back, camping and eating home-cooked meals. We had one little cooler that would store things at fridge temps for up to 48 hours.
Sometimes we would stay at a campsite for 2 weeks if we had enough signal to use as a hot spot for our laptops, and sometimes we’d only stay at a site for 1 night if it was just a parking lot. Our goal was to rock climb almost everywhere we went, and we got to hike in some bucket list places.
At that time, our international group trips were paused, and we thought TWC’s next move would be to create domestic group trips and wanted to research the best places to go. Along the way, though, we discovered that life is so much better when you live in side by side with others. So many of our friends (who joined us for bird and pieces of our roadtrip) spoke of their loneliness working their 9-5s from home alone, and, after years on the road mostly just the 2 of us, we realized we were missing eating and working with others. That’s when we decided to pursue our remote work trips in 2021 instead of domestic trips. We’re so glad we did because it made the TWC community bonds even deeper, but we still have our eyes on launching domestic trips someday! 👀⛰️
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