Shifter: What Else Did We Learn? 

Daniel, from 2:00 minutes in to roughly 9:00 minutes is the best most concise description of our country that I have ever heard. I've shared this with people that I know for them to hear the message. Very well said!

When Dan talks we listen… keep digging that mud !

Somehow I missed this... I want to echo and shout louder your "Coastal Elite" rant. It is a 1000% true. I work for a super large Fortune 20 company and I say constantly "this will work in I-95 corridor or the LA Metroplex or Dallas...but what about the rest of real America?"...I do not live in the I-95 corridor but travel into for these meetings, so these corporate leaders then stare at me since they just 'fly-over' all of these places. They have no idea that people actual drink black coffee out of a Mr Coffee maker from 1982. Like steak and potatoes. You are so right real people and cool people live there and have a unique culture. Listen and understand!!!! Bravo to you for saying it!!!!

Spot on with those first 10 minutes and New Mexico might be my favorite state. Wish I had more time to spend there instead of just passing through to visit family in AZ at Christmas. I will be sure to wave when I pass Santa Fe.

Point 9 (on fly fishing), point 10 (the importance of listening for documentary work) and point 11 (it's okay to not be good) are my essentials. Seriously, all I've truly learned in life, after so many disappointments and disillusions, are summarized in those three points. And you wrapped them up as if you were doing pancakes. That's why I love this channel.

Another brilliant video.

This was the bright spot in my day. Thank you.

As a person who lives in Iowa, thank you!

When I hear “caravan” it think Snatch… the film. Cool video as always uncle Dan.

How clean the van is = peoples' perception of your choices - 1000%. When I was cruising up and down the coast of WA I'd pull up next to some crusty hippy types which only made my gleaming OCD rolling palace look all the more respectable. The locals would treat us both _very_ differently. I'd get invited to peoples' homes for dinner or "you must go and see such and such a place". People would get really, really keen on sharing their favourite spots and making recommendations and just having a real conversation. The hippies would get awkward glances and, more often than not, completely ignored. Even though we've made exactly the same life choice.

Could not stop laughing at " neck punch" Thanks!

Where rambling meets art, is art, or is maybe nothing like art. Ok, it's nothing like art, but it's still completely awesome! 🙏

Great video! That‘s the type of storytelling I love on your podcast. Throw in the hero of the week and maybe a puke story or two from old times and this will work on YT too.

Spite haircuts are the most satisfying.

Best 45 minutes of my day.

Most entertaining film yet. Keep em coming. Vaporize those IG’rs!

Milnor, bad to the bone!! Preach.

"Lettering in stupidity". Dude. Nailed it B-).

Tercel!!! Vinyl seats. No AC! Used to deliver auto parts in one in Northern Virginia. Hot humid loved every minute of it.

I always enjoy the quiet and very sparsely populated areas of states often. Sometimes its the long unbroken vistas or the quaint little rural towns. But then you come across a town that has a ton of stories to tell. One case for me was Condon Oregon. The area used to be surrounded by miles of huge wheat fields and such and because of this they had a beautiful town with a huge middle and high school. But sadly the year i went through their senior class had only 6 students! My point is if you live in a populated state i recommend searching out the two least populated counties and take a road trip. One can almost be guaranteed to find some interesting stories and places to research late.

Hi Dan, see you really relaxed on your trip as your eyes aren't bloodshot. Nice not to look into reflecting glasses/specs.

I moved from Phoenix to Boston...haha what a drastic change and awesome experience. completely different cities but I love them both. I miss the desert...I miss the random taco stands in the middle of nowhere

Interesting observations. There's a book from the 1970s titled, "The 9 Nations of North America" that talks about the regional differences among the states (the Desert SW, The Breadbasket, etc.). It was an interesting read and I recommend it. I used to fish with my dad, who loved fly fishing with his best friend. They went all over. When my dad died, I got all his gear...and have never used it. It's sad, really. I found that as much I liked to think of myself as an outdoorsman, I am really a city dweller.

I really want to get back to NM. I had a crazy experience driving through in 2012, on my way to LA for an internship. I was passing through Oklahoma and that little piece of Texas that sticks up. There was this strange hybrid thunder and dust storm. Everywhere was brown. I remember it being very flat. I remember Oklahoma being like what I thought Texas was supposed to be like, and the north of Texas being like what I though Kansas was supposed to be like. As I drove through this flat brown hinterland, a blue sliver emerged as I got close to the NM border. The terrain suddenly changed, along with the weather. When I crossed the border I was leaning forward trying to look up at the sky through my windshield, because it seemed like the storm literally stopped right at the border. Suddenly it was blue sky and beautiful snow-capped mountains in the distance. I had a nice hatch-chile filled overnight with a friend in Albuquerque and then it was back to the road.

In the UK a caravan is what you call a trailer. What you call a van, we call a campervan. A van over here is what tradesmen drive for their business, builders, delivery guys, whatever. Unless it's a stealth camper, which looks like every other van except on the inside, where degrees of fabulousness can be found. Our version of coastal and flyover states is somewhere's and nowhere's. Personally, I'm more likely to fly to Alabama or Wyoming than New York or LA. If I wanted impatient narcissists, lost tourists and shops selling overpriced trinkets it's much easier to visit London. Photography-wise most greats had done their stuff by the age of 40. Tony Ray-Jones produced some of the best social commentary photographs ever taken in a couple of years and died age 31.

Also, agreed re your red/blue assessment. In the fall of 2020, I drove 8400 from Minneapolis to Washington to shoot a wedding, then all the way back to the east coast for a wedding in Concord, NH, then all the way back to Minneapolis. I have now been to all 50 states (and all over the world). To generalize, most cities lean liberal and most rural areas are lean conservative. The myth that the coasts are more liberal is based only on NY and LA. I lived in Seattle for 13 years. Seattle, like Portland and Vancouver BC, is nice and liberal, but go 45 minutes outside of the city and it's no different from Idaho. Tons of midwest cities are just as "liberal" as any "coastal" cities. Minneapolis, St Paul, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Cleveland, Des Moines, etc. That side, I met tons of wonderful people along the way, and had no idea where they fall in terms of political labels, and that's how it should be. We do need to listen to each other or we are fucked.

Dude!!! You got your T-DUB!!!! WHOOP! I hope you put 1 bazillion miles on that thing!

Next time, take the back roads. I rode my Harley-Davidson 80,000 miles through 39 States all on back roads. You'll see a different America there than what you see along the interstate.

I think you’ve outdone yourself. But I’m sure there’s plenty more. I do know where NM is and have driven through it. As a certified resident of a flyover state, this gave me more than a few humorous moments.

Vaporised igers!! love it , I wander what that looks like, there must be something left :)

More of these! :)

If I had a wife and she walked in my room, she would be getting the Stone Cold Stunner

Hey Minor, we all need new podcast episode (running out of old dispatches)

Here’s where we part company - I think the Chile Pepper license tags are beautiful.

18:40 The energy could be coming from a coal-powered power plant but power plants are very efficient @ 90%+ in terms of power production compared to an internal combustion engine. Most internal combustion engines only get 50% of the power from the combustion to the wheels. a lot is given off as heat and gas out the exhaust.

It's funny because the people in the Rockies call the mountains in the North East hills...

01:40 - RIP headphone listeners 😂

I genuinely thought this was going to be 43 minutes of bike riding and frankly, I would have been more than okay with that.

Reality is difficult to comprehend for a lot of people :)) To be foney is easy.

We are permanently divided and it's not going to change. Our belief system is so radically different that it's just going to get worse year after year.

pls some closeups from the bike!!!

Thumbs up on the red-blue discussion. Was that the Yamaha you've been talking about?

I thought the D word was going to be Dork. Damn.

Somebody should create a map of non-Instagram places.

You got the TW? Sweet!

I want the A7C for my M-mount lenses and my left eye dominated vision. But my understanding is the sensor still cant handle most RF lenses that well, especially wides. If Leica would just put out an EVF version of the M-mount in full frame. Basically a Q with an M-mount.

You often talk about how you weren’t a good student, which I can relate to probably all too well. So studying and research were never a strong suit of mine. What’s one of the best ways to start researching a topic before starting a project?

Yeah, where's my podcast? I haven't had a good laugh (or sleep) in weeks.

VAPORIZE THE INSTAGRAMMERS!!! YES! HAHAHAHA! sorry... got a little excited. (cough)

Venture4wd

What is your podcast called? I searched for your name and a corresponding podcast didn’t pop up.

Is it the new Harley Davidson e-bike?

I think I might have an Idea on what bike that is

You live in a gated compound?

Dan, consider color vlogs, please! This isn’t a Fellini film, after all. LOL! 😂