you can't buy what we're dealin'

We are all products of our environment.

Here in Southern California, we live in a strange place. The LA metropolitan area is one of the most population-dense and culturally vibrant areas of the country. But, just two hours out of town and over the mountains you enter one of the most sparse, beautiful and wide open desert in the world. You can have your coffee at Alfred on Melrose and then be on top of a sand dune in Death Valley by late lunchtime--if you drive fast enough.

If you go east instead of north, one of those places you can visit out there in the dust is a little silver mining ghost town called CALICO.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
(you should read it)

CALICO is a workshop and studio founded by Chris Webster, somebody who grew up in the desert and somehow found his way into the city.

And in the process of making things for a living, the unsustainable processes that most businesses partake in have had an effect. We don't want to partake in a system that keeps taking, so we're trying to give something back.

Brands are everything nowadays--soda, politicians, pets, highschoolers, structural engineering firms, anything. sojourner.tools utilizes the same techniques those brands use to get you to buy into stuff you know you probably don't need--and we show you how it works under the hood to avoid it in the future. That's how you ended up reading this in the first place--we targeted something you wanted and led you here.

This is one part tourism, one part educational, one part experimental. And there's an offer for you: If you follow the hunt, your reward will be exclusive* access to some of the highest quality, heirloom-grade goods for good living you can get in Los Angeles.

If you keep going, you will rise in tiers and acquire even deeper discounts--guaranteed return on investment as our promise to you.

Time to go outside.

*This footnote is literally just to tell you, good luck

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We'd love you to see how where you could go. Even if that means in the middle of nowhere, sleeping well AND having a great time. Sounds rough!

outdoors shot around evening on a dirt road with chaparral and slightly snowy cloud covered mountains in the distance
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