What happens when the land that raised you begins to disappear?
In Vanishing Frontier, company Co-founder Rami Abdel, weaves memoir, cultural reflection, and environmental reckoning into a powerful exploration of what it means to belong—to a place, to a heritage, and to a future that feels increasingly uncertain.
Growing up in Southern California, Rami remembers a world of open space, quiet borders, and unclaimed horizons. As that world gives way to unchecked development, wildfire, economic displacement, and digital domination, he follows the fault lines where nature, identity, and progress collide. From the fire-scarred mountains of Julian to the polluted border rivers of San Diego, from the kelp forests of the Pacific to the turquoise waters of the Sea of Cortez, this book traces the intimate relationship between land and the people shaped by it.
Written from the perspective of a first-generation Mexican-American, Vanishing Frontier does not offer easy answers or ideological slogans. Instead, it sits in the uncomfortable middle—examining borders without simplification, heritage without revisionism, and progress without blind faith. It asks what is lost when wilderness becomes a luxury, when home ownership slips out of reach, and when algorithms begin to replace human agency.
At its heart, this is a story about legacy. About choosing to live closer to the earth in a world accelerating away from it. About raising children with access to silence, risk, and wonder. And about the quiet resistance of those who still believe that land, memory, and community matter.
Vanishing Frontier is for readers who feel the shift happening beneath their feet—who sense that something essential is slipping away, and who are searching for a deeper understanding of what it means to remain human in an increasingly artificial world.
Vanishing Frontier - Nature, Identity & Heritage in Crisis, will be launching soon and will be available for on Amazon Kindle.