The Road Kill Diet

By Richard Pawlowski

If you want to have a good time losing weight, here’s the absolutely the best way to do it. Go kill a lot of road. A lot of road was traveled and killed in the process of writing this unique adventure book. This diet is like none other, but because the ROAD KILL DIET suggests a total change of place - every week or two for at least a year - at a minimum. Perhaps 52 one-week or 26 two-week vacations - in a different campground for over a year. The authors suggest the reader dramatically downsize their life and travel for a year or more in an RV, trailer or tent. Hotels or airplane travel are not part of this plan. Outdoor "twig-fire" cooking, sleeping under the stars, solar showers and small ice chest living are what can help the reader shed dangerous weight and perhaps - the current residence and toxic people in their life as well. Unfortunately, many people don’t even know this type of toxicity happening to them, and even more sadly, many never learn how to really change their life before it’s too late. Especially seniors and baby boomers.

The ROAD KILL DIET is the companion book to 2 Years in a Tent and the authors are seniors in their 70s who lived outdoors under the stars and became healthier and grew more spiritually connected because of the experience. They learned to love life and each other more. They camped and traveled to 15 National Parks, in 10 states and "occupied" the very best of America's real estate in over 50 differently beautiful campgrounds. They share valuable insights on many of the campgrounds as well as strategies for saving money while getting your head on straight. They include a useful "connect the dots" tracking strategy in case the reader wants to travel and camp in the same places. The ROAD KILL DIET is also a special inspirational read for people who feel something intangible is missing in their life. They developed a "Find the edge of all time" meditation chapter that might even rearrange your troubled molecules.

A reviewer wrote:
“I really enjoyed reading this book. It was mixed with their story of what happened bringing them to travel in a van and live in a tent. I enjoyed the mix of quotes through out the book, it gave great inspiration. And loved the names of the recipes which was tied to the location they were in. Hope to read more of their travels and lifestyle.”

If you've ever thought of getting away from it all, the ROAD KILL DIET is your best way to make that first move. For people who are all ready full-timing it, this book can make your life and travels even more enjoyable. You'll want to eat right and kill a lot of road with this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Pawlowski
• Release date: Nov 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9780988898523

Richard Pawlowski

Richard Pawlowski is a retired architect, ex-real estate developer, entrepreneur, former economic columnist for San Pedro Today Magazine. His first ebook 2 Years in Tent was published in 2013 and the ROAD KILL DIET is a companion ebook to his first book. Richard is considered a “serial entrepreneur” and was the first seller and manufacturer of bike billboards in the USA. He was also founder of the first discount real estate franchise in the USA which had 150 people in 30 offices who did over $300,000,000 in sales. He's also become an authority about the economic effects of feminism on American men. He has recently also published The New Power of American Women and Bogus Beauty to shed light on these esoteric subjects. He’s an active grandpa who provides marketing and startup consulting via VentureXPO Group. Richard has 3 grown sons, a daughter and three grandchildren. He currently lives with his wife of 49 years in Depoe Bay, Oregon.

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Becoming or Staying Relevant & Go Where Love Is

Work on the accent; it will enliven the whole. – Pierre Bonnard

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Before we get started exploring how to use full-time travel to shed the negatives of your diet and perhaps your life, I think it might be a good idea to pencil-in or outline what you hope to find within yourself. I realize, this type of travel plan may be hard for some to do. I’m also not sure of your current circumstance or why you are reading this book, but I am certain what kept me mentally moving forward and gave me needed hope for a better future.

One of the most important goals I set for myself is to stay as relevant as I could and seek to find those kinds of new skills and activities that would be helpful or useful in this new economy. In different words, what else can I/we do to adapt to a totally new life in a new place?

Again, I’m not sure what flips your switch but if you are going to enrich your life with this kind of diet and travel, staying or becoming relevant - after you do it - is important. This might be thought of as possibility thinking. It’s continuously developing or nurturing a creative mindset. To some, this might mean learning photography, video production, marine biology, art, architecture or some other type of usable skill. For me, it was writing and exploring the publishing world, which included seeking out book fairs and libraries. For Laura, it was finding and exploring organic farming. Fun and easy - but with a purpose.

One of the ways, we could both do this - was to visit as many libraries and universities near or on our way to the National Parks and target campgrounds. For example, if you are going to Southern California, you could visit USC and/or UCLA and go to the student cafeterias for lunch. We did this in many states and on our way north in California, we also stopped at CalPoly in San Luis Obispo and Stanford University, in Palo Alto. Visiting schools, libraries and museums are inexpensive goals with high potential for becoming or staying relevant in the future. In Arizona, we went to the Festival of Books and the ASU campus. Book fairs and farmers markets are fun and just about everywhere.

We met some other California camping seniors who were producing a series of on-the-street video interviews of different medical students in several five western states. They were also interviewing politicians and traveling to universities to document the effects of the Affordable Care Act. They were hopeful their extensive series of interviews would be valuable to many different media outlets. It was a subject they felt compelled to explore.

We met others who were photographers shooting pictures of desert wild flowers for a new book. Still others were documenting hiking trails, rivers and lakes for the best back-county trout fishing. One hubby-wife team were pottery artists from North Dakota going to Quartzite, Arizona for an RV rally, where potters from all over the world come to show off their work - in their RVs.

Bottom line: These kinds of new travel-plus-diet goals, can turn into important mind-stretching experiences for triggering new inner goals and developing new skills. Merely being around all kinds of new people, in many new educational settings and sensing their energy, can also rearrange your own beliefs about yourself.

Special Note about your new potential with digital duplication.

We are all now swimming in a global, content-hungry world where any cell-phone video camera can capture and transmit a few seconds of an event or interview that can be viewed and re-transmitted by millions of people. It can inform, help or entertain as well. Each info product you might create can also take on a life of it’s own and may bring you and your efforts new respect or personal satisfaction. And, it doesn’t necessarily have to be profitable, in a monetary way, to be life-enriching. To not participate or create, is of course, your choice but it is a choice and an important one you might one to consider before you set out on your RKD. Align your creative passion with your travel-diet and see what happens.

America is also awesome in a strangely humorous way and since I’m a mere guide for this diet adventure, it seems to me, that no matter what the current problem is however, the Great Creator has, I think, created many new opportunities but also has a very paradoxical funny-bone. There is plentiful humor everywhere in the USA and if you seek funny stuff - ye shall find all kinds of recordable funny-bones.

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Eternal nothingness is OK as long as you are dressed for it. – Woody Allen

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On a more serious note, here’s another insight I personally drew strength from. It came from a young man in his early 40s, who was a neighbor of mine. John used to come over to my garage while I was in it tinkering around. We had an automatic affinity for each other and he said he often viewed me as his deceased dad. Our conversations led all over the map and we talked about anything that popped into our thoughts. One day, he confided in me that his mother was schizophrenic and when he was about 12 years old, she set herself on fire - right in front of