I've spent the last four years traveling in Airstreams, meeting some of the most fabulous owners and Airstream fans across the Western United States. You can click the map pins for pictures and locations. Many of the Airstream Owners have stories to share. Some have horror stories such as roll-overs. Most have had a string of part failures, component shortcomings and lost rivets and screws.

All of the Owners have learned to become self-help experts. For example, the two retaining flange nuts for our passenger shock absorbers either fell off, or we're never installed in the factory. This made a fabulous episode on Airstream Self-Help - in U.S.A.!

    

Airstreaming full-time comes with surprises... along with judgment, criticism, and 'looks'. You might not expect to find flaws in your rig or your thinking, so it makes sense to have an example of how to deal with leaky transom windows and post-it notes of condemnation from nice U.S.A. Airstream critics.

This Episode is part of a 48 video series on U.S.A. Airstream awareness, understanding and managing a journey with a purpose.

Discuss Self-Care

This is an example of small things overlooked causing big problems. We were 'grounded' by Airstream Ohio when I told them I discovered the shock absorber retaining nuts on the upper mounts were missing. "OMG - the trailer could roll-over. Do NOT drive it anywhere!; they told me."

I turned out that the Pandemic labor shortage prevented the emergency warranty tech from helping. Ace hardware carried the nuts and blue LockTite. Done. Thank you for self-help Airstream Skills

Your thinking and your handyman skills are resources... if you recognize the process of incremental progress. In this episode, Daniel demonstrates both the psychology and the physiology practices that support well-being and accomplishment.

Across numerous expeditions, I video journaled, seeking freedom from anxiety, fear, frustration, depression, addiction, boredom, and anger. The outcome of my journey with a purpose - a 'Personal Everest' as I call it - was discovering that self-reflection video modeling is an effective method for transformation. For this reason, I created the Scotomaville program as a second edition 336-page full-color workbook, a 48-episode video series, and an ongoing online support platform for others to champion their Personal Everest.

I am guiding expeditions for like-minded eccentrics to "follow in the way I began" (Blaise Pascal). Explorers become aware of blind-spots and recognize how modern life games our psychology and physiology. This shift in awareness and pivot of faulty mindsets can turn obstacles into opportunities, transforming the life they were handed into outcomes they design.

Participants document their "journey with a purpose" and experience personal and professional transformation by understanding why we do what we do (wwdwwd). Simultaneously, they build a corpus for their family and digital avatar, passing along insights from hard-earned lessons and character changes valued by close relationships and future generations.

Airstreaming full-time comes with surprises... along with judgment, criticism, and 'looks'.

Daniel CompAuthor/Curator