Living out of my taco

Hello from Louisiana, well at least that's where my ups box mailing address is. About 4 years ago I started traveling and have had the fever ever since. The more places I go the more places I want to see. I'm lucky you see, I work a job that works a 28 and 14 schedule. I work 28 days straight ( eat, sleep, shower and shave at work) and then I'm off for 14 days to go where ever I decided to go. Once I started traveling more and more I realized that I was spending little to no time at home. I was basically living on the road, so last January I made a decision that has changed my life dramatically, I decided to move into a truck. The truck I chose was a 2011 double cab 4x4 taco. I have been slowly setting the truck up to support my life style where my mountain bike, kayak, hiking, camping, and photography gear is always on board. It is changeling sometimes but the rewards of the places I get to see are well worth it. When I first made the decision to move on the road I contemplated a fancy motor coach, and or a traveler trailer but I decided on a Tacoma and a 12x12 cabin tent. Why you ask? well if I decide to travel to new York city, I'm not looking for a place to park a 40' motor coach, only a normal size small pickup. If I decide to go to big bend np and decided to camp on one of the road side camping spots that requires 4x4 to get to, again I'm still good. To make a long story short I'll be slowly posting the changes of my truck from stock fourm to the total expedition truck I have in my mind. Good day, Brandon

 

welcome from louisiana as well! go check out Cajun Yotas on Facebook if you're on there and we'll add you!

 

What do you do for a living?

 

pics please!!!

 

Towboat captain, ( inland tug boat)

 

save yourself some headache..and buy a Phoenix pop up camper for the back and call it good.

you a merchant marine or something?

 

This.

 

oh..i was close!! cool deal.

 

modding and developing a truck system would suck while you are on the move..just buy this..

 

or try this:

 

looks armor plated.

approved

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhgfjrKi0o?version=3
Sweet Man!

 

Roof top tent is on the list, will be mounted on the top of the cabin thou, the bed is all ready taken up by my mountain bike, kayak rack, and gear stored below. If I put the bike on top the truck a tree branch some where will claim her

 

This is how I started, (stock)
Soon to be added- ARB front bumper
Old man emue lift.
ARB fridge in the bed.
And am also looking for rear bumper with tire gate

 

for the rear bumper look up CBI off road they make some bad ass rear bumpers with swing out tire carriers

 

Subscribed! I have been thinking of doing this and it was one of the reasons I bought a Taco. Can't wait to see more.

 

I can give a +1 to CBI's bushmaster 2.0 I've been rear ended 3 times with it LOL

Nothing major so far!

 

This is awesome! Good luck! Looking forward to seeing your mods

 

Looks like you're off to a great start. You should start a build page so we can track the progress.

 

Will start one soon. Trying to gather all my pictures that are scatter in syber land