Roll The Dice

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"We started the trip without much of a purpose," writes Fil Corbitt. "We wanted to be pushed around. Wanted to find something we didn't know we were looking for. We wanted to take some small chance and see where we landed. And see which side was facing up." But how do you find that kind of serendipity when you only have a week? Fil created a game. Each morning, he and his friend would wake up and roll a single dice. The rules? A one meant go north. 2 = east, 3 = south, 4 = west, 5 = stay put and 6 meant to cross the nearest state border. The only rule? No backtracking. Today, we follow Fil as he and his friend Brian figuratively and literally roll the dice and see where they land. And which side is facing up. This episode originally aired as a six-part series on Fil's awesome podcast, Van Sounds. We cut quite a bit of material to turn it into a single piece. You can listen to the full version of the Dice series as well as other awesome travel stories, like the Freight Train episode, at: http://vansounds.org/

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0:00.0	Of course, like every other teenage kid, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.
0:06.8	When I was 16 years old, I took off and drove across the country to Wyoming.
0:11.8	Went into the Wind River Range and discovered mountains.
0:15.6	In 1973, Yvonne Chinard founded Patagonia.
0:18.8	I never wanted to be a businessman.
0:23.4	All I wanted to do was do my craft and climb mountains.
0:29.8	So then I had to figure out a way to where I was going to be a businessman, but I was going
0:36.5	to do it completely on my own terms.
0:40.0	Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, inspire and implement solutions to the
0:46.1	environmental crisis.
0:48.3	Join us at Patagonia.com.
0:57.0	We're listening to The Dirt Backdaries, a production of Duck Tape Than Beer, with additional
1:02.6	support from R.A.I., Fireside Provision, Kuat Racks, and New Belgium Brewing.
1:08.5	Okay, right now, I am pretty wrapped up in Family Life.
1:21.4	I'm not sure if you heard.
1:23.0	I don't know why you would have, but Becca, my incredible wife and the director of The
1:27.4	Dirt Backdaries, has had her second son, Wiley.
1:30.9	After all those years of living on the road, traveling non-stop, I have to say, I'm kind
1:35.4	of digging and hanging around home a little bit more.
1:37.7	I don't know totally why, but that's just maybe the stage I'm at.
1:42.0	That said, we've already done a few short road trips with our two-month-old because, well,
1:46.3	I'm still not that good at hanging around the house.
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