About

//About

• Tōge – (峠, also spelled touge) is a Japanese word literally meaning “pass”. It refers to a mountain pass or any of the narrow, winding roads that can be found in and around the mountains of Japan and other geographically similar areas.

TSW was founded as in inspiration to the TougeNW Community in the PNW that closed it doors in 2011, shortly after I was push out of the PNW due to a business partner stabbing me in the back and pushed me out of town and no place to go but to return to Las Vegas. If you want to learn more, I am an author of Vegas Hackware.  A book about my past trauma, cancer, and other adventures.

TougeNW was a life and game changer for me, as prior to meeting TougeNW, I was in a very dark place.  Not just because of the cancer battle but the trauma that took place in the fight and post fight.  When I returned to Las Vegas, I wanted to bring something extremely positive in my life with me.  I wanted to build a car cummunity similair to how they structured it in the PNW but Vegas is a different beast when it comes to the car culture.

I am the WonderingRaven or Brandy, Raven, I am the host of TougeSW, or TSW for short.  I drift I hack, and I play video games.

Back in 2010 I was inspired heavy into the touge car scene of the PNW, I seeked out a better car to share my new life and experience with. I feel  in love with the rare S12 Silvia chassis, I found my first s12 chassis in Yakima Washington, then had to sell it because of my issues in 2011 but I acquired another and somehow I ended up with 5 of them.  I daily drive between the 1986 S12 Silvia, I call project Serenity and my 2008 350z GT.  But as seen at the track I drift the 1987 ratsun built 200sx s12 silvia once with the vg30e now ca18det.

Since I found out upon returning to Vegas, I was inspired to keep going with the TSW project and instead of giving up I created this to be a  blog my adventures with the automotive culture sporting the Nissan 1987 200SX chassis (S12), but also turn it into a publications to collaborate with other automotive people to showcase different cars and other grassroot events around the drifting world.

update: Since 2019 my mom’s sudden passing she was both my best friend and mother shortly after 2 days of my last drift event the day I nuked my motor after hours of seat time and the day of the cricket apocolypse. I have been pulling myself together and created this even further, I started a podcast / talkshow now pushing more content in the car, drifting world. I am doing this to help me move forward with my loss, help me stay accontable for putting in the work again and stay self motivated and confident back to getting back out there to shred tires again. I would love eto expand this as my original idea in the PSW,

One of my dreams is to take my s12 and do my own version of Slide America as life is too short and I want to keep drifting fun.