Cameron Smith and Kat Hessen _ On the road again

photography and text by CAMERON SMITH   You gotta lose some weight to get ready for the road, so we’ve sold or given away nearly everything we own. We have become material anorexics. I traded my iPad to an alcoholic couple living in a barn in Ventura for a Honda XL600. My love, Kat, buys a cheap Yamaha — another old racehorse ready for the glue factory. We have almost begun to travel, even without leaving; we are already living on the road. We bought an old ambulance and have been sleeping in it, parked next to our friend Mark Engle’s San Diego engine shop. Teddy Roosevelt once said, “I have a motorcycle and a sleeping bag, what more do I need?” and that’s enough for Kat and me. Nothing tastes as good as being light feels. It turns out it takes a lot of work to polish, weld, and…