🐴 The Pepperoni Pony
A whimsical satire: in a land where pizza is sacred but pepperoni is banned, a magical pony sacrifices herself piece by piece to bring flavor back to the people.
Builder, fixer, writer.
I like practical things—fast sites, fast bikes, fast networks, and a big slow lumbering 4×4 van named Wilson. In college, I was known as 'Decompiler Doug'. I was once political but I gave it up. When I’m not debugging, I’m outside walking Panda, my 80-pound Bernedoodle or planning my next epic road trip.
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The Militant Anonymous
A darkly comic profile of Gary, a man who traded a suburban life for a stinking trailer, a bottle, and a cause he never saw coming.
The War Against the .001%
A dystopian-political fever dream: Don rallies an unlikely alliance in the Mojave Desert against the shadowy “Poons.”
Builds
🚐 2009 Ford E-350 Quigley 4×4 — Action Adventure Van
Currently upgraded with new shocks, rims, tires, a refreshed electrical system with dual batteries, a complete interior remodel with a convertible bench bed and swivel seats throughout, a rooftop deck, rooftop water tank, running boards, ladder, and a touchscreen entertainment + navigation system.
🚲 e-Bikes
Coast Cycles Buzzraw Classic with Bafang BBSHD (Ludi v1), custom throttles, lights, and a maintenance log.
🌍 Travel
I’ve explored 0 countries (0% of Earth) and 44 US states (88% of USA).
Favorite Countries
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Favorite US States
- Colorado 🏔️
- Montana 🦬
- Utah 🏜️
✨ Future Travel Dreams
- 🗻 Black Hills, South Dakota (Coming Up)
- 🛣️ Alaskan-Canadian Highway (ALCAN) in the 4×4 van
- 🚂 Trans-Siberian Railway — Vladivostok to Moscow across the taigia and Lake Baikal
- 🚙 Cape York, Queensland, Australia — overlanding rough, remote tracks to the continent’s northernmost point
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Bulgaria
- Bolivia
- Canada
- China
- Costa Rica
- Czechia
- Germany
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- Fiji
- France
- United Kingdom
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Latvia
- Macao
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Peru
- Poland
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United States
- U.S. Virgin Islands
🧭 States yet to visit
- Idaho 🥔
- Kentucky 🐎
- Mississippi 🎸
- South Dakota 🗻
- Vermont 🍁
- Wyoming 🦬
Cold War & Atomic Tourism - Russia & The Old Soviet Union
I lived in the region during the 1990s and remain intrigued by this enigmatic and vast land.
- Soviet Space Program
- Soviet Deep Underground Bunkers
- Closed Soviet Atomic Cities
- 🚂 Trans-Siberian & Soviet rail lore as related to Atomic tourism and hidden places
- See Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World by Trevor Paglen for US equivalent.
Contact
Best way to reach me: hello@dougdaniels.com