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Well...never did learn how ta drive...so I'd go with this set up...minus the rifle.

For what it's worth, blue does occur in a number of creatures colour schemes, and is found in all the vertebrate orders(though I'm hard pressed to think of many blue mammals, aside from a few cetaceans, and that's almost more our doing through nomenclature) A good number of birds display the colour, as do some lizards and snakes. Amongst the amphibians blue is most seen in the anurans, and then salamanders. Fish may well show the greatest of diversity of blues (no Mississippi delta jokes...lol) amongst the vertebrates. The colour is also seen in a number of invertebrate groups as well. In at least the reptiles, those species that are usually green will on occasion produce blue (and yellow) individuals as well. In some species blue serves as a warning colour against predation, as seen in dart frogs and some sea snakes, as well a couple of terrestrial venomous snakes. While I'm not sure when these blues arose, one would think they would only be of benefit against predators with the ability to perceive the colour, so may have come into play only once the more acute colour vision of the more advanced predators came into being. Though this does not account for the use of blue by the chameleons group which use colour shifts to communicate emotive states on an introspection basis. That's supposed to read "intraspecific basis"as opposed to "introspection basis" Dang diabolical spellchecker....

I have a 99 Suburban that is well suited for this. I bought a foam tri-fold mattress which fits nicely when the middle seats are folded down. I've slept about 4 nights in it already and Unlike my camper I can see out in many directions as I lay there. Wind and rain don't bother my sleep. I calculated and a Tahoe would also be long enough to fit my mattress and myself, just have to be sure the seats fold flat. The 4wd is plenty capable of handling some of the "not roads" that we go on. It has third row seating but I leave it at home to make room. Plus it's old and ugly so getting scratches from tree branches does not bother me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue The modern English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe, from the Old French bleu, a word of Germanic origin, related to the Old High German word blao.[5] In heraldry, the word azure is used for blue.[6] Different words, such as lapis, cerulean, sky blue, and indigo, are used to describe particular shades of blue. In Russian and some other languages, there is no single word for blue, but rather different words for light blue (голубой, goluboy) and dark blue (синий, siniy). See Colour term. Several languages, including Japanese, Thai, Korean, and Lakota Sioux, use the same word to describe blue and green. For example, in Vietnamese the color of both tree leaves and the sky is xanh. In Japanese, the word for blue (青 ao) is often used for colors that English speakers would refer to as green, such as the color of a traffic signal meaning "go". (For more on this subject, see Distinguishing blue from green in language) Linguistic research indicates that languages do not begin by having a word for the color blue.[7] Color names often developed individually in natural languages, typically beginning with black and white (or dark and light), and then adding red, and only much later – usually as the last main category of color accepted in a language – adding the color blue, probably when blue pigments could be manufactured reliably in the culture using that language.[7] Blue was a latecomer among colors used in art and decoration, as well as language and literature.[24] Reds, blacks, browns, and ochres are found in cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic period, but not blue. Blue was also not used for dyeing fabric until long after red, ochre, pink and purple. This is probably due to the perennial difficulty of making good blue dyes and pigments.[25] The earliest known blue dyes were made from plants – woad in Europe, indigo in Asia and Africa, while blue pigments were made from minerals, usually either lapis lazuli or azurite. Lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone, has been mined in Afghanistan for more than three thousand years, and was exported to all parts of the ancient world.[26] In Iran and Mesopotamia, it was used to make jewellery and vessels. In Egypt, it was used for the eyebrows on the funeral mask of King Tutankhamun(1341–1323 BC).[27] Importing lapis lazuli by caravan across the desert from Afghanistan to Egypt was very expensive. Beginning in about 2500 BC, the ancient Egyptians began to produce their own blue pigment known as Egyptian blue by grinding silica, lime, copper, and alkalai, and heating it to 800 or 900 °C (1,470 or 1,650 °F). This is considered the first synthetic pigment.[28] Egyptian blue was used to paint wood, papyrus and canvas, and was used to color a glaze to make faience beads, inlays, and pots. It was particularly used in funeral statuary and figurines and in tomb paintings. Blue was considered a beneficial color which would protect the dead against evil in the afterlife. Blue dye was also used to color the cloth in which mummies were wrapped.[29] In Egypt blue was associated with the sky and with divinity. The Egyptian god Amun could make his skin blue so that he could fly, invisible, across the sky. Blue could also protect against evil; many people around the Mediterranean still wear a blue amulet, representing the eye of God, to protect them from misfortune.[30] Blue glass was manufactured in Mesopotamia and Egypt as early as 2500 BC, using the same copper ingredients as Egyptian blue pigment. They also added cobalt, which produced a deeper blue, the same blue produced in the Middle Ages in the stained glass windows of the cathedrals of Saint-Denis and Chartres.[31] The Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon (604–562 BC) was decorated with deep blue glazed bricks used as a background for pictures of lions, dragons and aurochs.[32] The ancient Greeks classified colors by whether they were light or dark, rather than by their hue. The Greek word for dark blue, kyaneos, could also mean dark green, violet, black or brown. The ancient Greek word for a light blue, glaukos, also could mean light green, grey, or yellow.[33] The Greeks imported indigo dye from India, calling it indikon. They used Egyptian blue in the wall paintings of Knossos, in Crete, (2100 BC). It was not one of the four primary colors for Greek painting described by Pliny the Elder (red, yellow, black, and white), but nonetheless it was used as a background color behind the friezes on Greek temples and to color the beards of Greek statues.[34] The Romans also imported indigo dye, but blue was the color of working class clothing; the nobles and rich wore white, black, red or violet. Blue was considered the color of mourning, and the color of barbarians. Julius Caesar reported that the Celts and Germans dyed their faces blue to frighten their enemies, and tinted their hair blue when they grew old.[35] Nonetheless, the Romans made extensive use of blue for decoration. According to Vitruvius, they made dark blue pigment from indigo, and imported Egyptian blue pigment. The walls of Roman villas in Pompeii had frescoes of brilliant blue skies, and blue pigments were found in the shops of color merchants.[34] The Romans had many different words for varieties of blue, including caeruleus, caesius, glaucus, cyaneus, lividus, venetus, aerius, and ferreus, but two words, both of foreign origin, became the most enduring; blavus, from the Germanic word blau, which eventually became bleu or blue; and azureus, from the Arabic word lazaward, which became azure.[36]

The show sounds interesting. I like the idea of researching Native American phenomenon in addition to BF. I just wonder why someone with an accounting background (I believe) needs a gofundme after being a major part of a relatively popular tv show for a number of years. Seems the show could gain its own traction with networks on his reputation and history alone in this field. Idk.