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by gun45boat » Wed Sep 25, 2013 11:48 am
For sure. Yes, I will never get the money out of the build, but it is a tax deduction, as it is a "company Vehicle" So whatever loss I take from it, will be fine. Nobody EVER recovers the money they put into building a buggy/truggy/rig. It is all a loss. But the memories, and the good times had in the rig, makes up for the money lost. I have been eyeballing a Cessna 185 amphibious plane to keep at the lakehouse. But I wanted to get this big trip off my bucket list before I switch gears and get into my flying adventures.
Last year, I took my family (wife and 2 kids) out west in the RV for 9 weeks, and we did EVERY national Park west of the Mississippi. It was an EPIC adventure..... We rented a Heep in different areas like Moab and Death Valley, and the Badlands and the sierra's to scope out the hardcore trails for my next adventure, just to make sure I was ready to pull this off with the Dodge I was building. Bless my wife's heart for letting me disappear for 6 weeks to do this trip.. She is a stay at home Mom, and that is the ONLY way I could pull this off.
Bucket List:
1) Hitting up all the hardcore trails west of the Mississippi in a built expedition type buggy including: Moab, The Rubicon Trail, Fordyce Creek, Alpine Loop, Area BFE, The Badlands, The high Sierra's, Death Valley, Pikes Peak, With massive amounts of Hiking, and ROck Climbing (with Ropes) for 6 to 8 weeks BY MYSELF>>>>>> to get away from the hectic life of running a company, answering over 100+ phone calls a day, meetings, schedules, deadlines, dealing with many employee issues, the stresses of work, I feel like I always am doing things for other people... SO I feel that it is MY turn to do something for myself, to get away from it all, turn off my cell phone, get away from computers, distance myself from people in general, do some hunting, fishing, hiking, climbing, writting, and photography, and riding my mountain bike, and do the best 4x4 trails that this great country has to offer:)
2) (Get my pilots license) Buy an amphibious Airplane (at least a 4 to 6 seater with plenty of storage room for surfboards etc.) And Go on huge andventures to the islands to include The Grenadine's, Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Galapigos(sp), the the many islands scattered off the beautiful coasts of Alaska, Canada etc. To be able to land in the water, and nose the plane up on shore, and camp out and go surfing at the most remote destinations in the world..
3) Climb Mount Rainier before I turn 40 years old!!!! (My Dad summited Mount Rainier when he was 42, SO I do want to fallow his footsteps..)
