🏕️ Welcome to Ghost Subie Adventures – A Little About Us

🌱 How We Began

Ghost Subie Adventures officially launched almost a year ago (Instagram made it real), but truthfully, it’s been brewing since I was eight — roaming the woods of East Texas with nothing but a fishing pole and a pocketknife.

It grew with every summer spent shelling sweet peas beside my grandma, listening to her stories from WWII and the Great Depression. My grandparents taught me survival and preparedness not as a hobby, but as a way of life.

Fast forward to 18-year-old me joining the military. Urban and wilderness survival became daily lessons. Deployments and TDYs took me across the globe — good places, bad places — where I tested and sharpened those skills. Eventually, my military chapter closed, but the love for adventure didn’t.

I settled in San Antonio, got married, and had a son who’s every bit the young explorer I was. A big city couldn’t contain that spirit, so fishing, hiking, hunting, and traveling became our family rituals.

Then came COVID. Conspiracy theories, riots, and chaos. San Antonio even got hit with the infamous “Snowmageddon.” That’s when it clicked — the lifestyle we lived for fun was also a form of survival. Most people had no idea how to handle a multi-day power outage.

So I asked myself: What if preparedness didn’t have to be fear-based? What if it could be fun, honest, and stress-free?

That idea simmered while we kept adventuring. Eventually, I turned the not-so-old 2022 Subaru Forester we have into a rig that could handle both urban chaos and wilderness trails. That’s when Ghost Subie Adventures truly began.

I met overlanders, car community folks, and found a tribe. But the itch to talk preparedness never left. Seeing how car meets, overlanding, and survival skills intersect gave me a new lens:

• Trail skills like communication, cooking, and camping — that’s preparedness.

• Car meet skills like planning, mapping, and organizing — also preparedness.

• Everyone, to some level, was trying to be better prepared, and the conversations flowed naturally inside both communities...so what if we kicked it up a notch?

Between my ranch upbringing, military experience, and daily adventures, I realized I could talk preparedness without being a gear-pushing fearmonger. So phase two of Ghost Subie Adventures was born: Sharing preparedness and adventure in a fun, inclusive way.

🔥 Mission

We explore to be prepared, and we prepare to explore.

That means:

• Preparedness — Know your kit, your crew, and your limits.

• Exploration — Find adventure locally and a little further off the beaten path.

• Community — Keep the campfire open to anyone who wanders in. You grow when your circle grows.

🧭 What to Expect

• Field notes from the road

• Gear reviews after miles, not minutes

• Skills and drills you can repeat anywhere

• A podcast to learn how others are overlanding and prepping around the world

✉️ Invitation 🏕️

This is an open-door camp. Whether you’ve been overlanding for years, you’re just curious about what’s beyond the pavement, or you simply want to be better prepared for whatever life throws your way — you’ve got a seat here.

📬 Join the adventure — Sign up for Past the Trailhead weekly email or drop a campfire note any time. The Ghost is always listening.