No, I am not telling you to end your marriage or your relationship. I am actually talking about going camping even when your husband/partner is not available.
Category Archives: Adventure
Land Cruising Adventures
Dutch by citizenship, this duo now calls the road home, and those along the route their neighbors. Traveling since 2003, they have covered tens of thousands of miles in their Toyota Land Cruiser BJ45.
Risk and Reward in the Utah Backcountry
Epic scenery, endless backroads, and more mud than you would ever want.
Not Your Average Bus Tour: Madventure Travel
Feel like three weeks of adventure? Got it. Sixty-four weeks more your style? Got that too! These guys have an adventure for every time span and every destination.
Drive Nacho Drive: A Landslide Brought it Down
Overlanders arent all the fond of mud, and they’re even less fond of the kind that blocks their road to adventure.
Expedition Reads: 20,000 Miles South
An every day couple and their dog drive from the Arctic Circle to Tierra Del Fuego in an amphibious Jeep. What could be more fun to read about than that?
Overlanding Meets Film Making in The Southwest
Building funds on landscape photography gave these videographers the chance to produce their dream film, “The Southwest”.
Overland Open House: The Scenic Run
Beautiful views, great food, and even better friends, made this year’s open house run a smashing success
Casner Mountain Trail: A Changing View
While no one likes a closed trail, a trip over Casner mountain gives me some perspective on the issue
A First Timer’s Impression of Overland Expo
Inspiration at Overland Expo is drawn from vehicles, classes, and foods, but most of all from the amazing people who congregate there each year
Southern Africa’s Toughest Trail in a Stock Discovery
via West County Explorers Club: South African off-roader, Andrew St. Pierre White, takes a stock Land Rover Discovery on what he states is Southern Africa’s most difficult road, Baboons Pass in Lesotho. He does the trip with friends in two well-prepared Defender 110s. By the looks of it, it’s not for the faint of heart….
Happy Birthday Land Rover: Thanks for the Inspiration
Land Rover understands the emotional connection we can have with a mechanical thing, what that mechanical device not only says about us as individuals, but where we might be driving too.
Camel Trophy Sulawesi
This is one of my favorite Camel Trophy videos. It takes place in 1988 on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi. It also shows a bit of the driver training in England. Great footage.
See the rest of the videos after the jump.
Scratch-Off Wall Map
(Not a scratch and sniff)
Dirt: The Off-Road Movie
via West County Explorers Club: If you’re in the mood for a smorgasbord of vintage, off-road action, check out this 70s-era documentary called Dirt. It covers just about everything from swam buggies to desert racing, and features a RV-ing grampa for a narrator.
Crooks Canyon, Arizona
via West County Explorers Club: As part of our Southwest Trip this summer, we drove through the Prescott National Forest. We shot video of the most remote part of that drive, Forest Road 82A through Crooks Canyon.
Here’s the post about that part of the trip: Southwest Trip, Part 4: Prescott, AZ.
VOTD: Toyota Hilux, Deep Water Crossing
It’s times like this that you really need to trust your snorkel install and waterproofing job. This video is from New South Wales, Australia via YouTube. Once your windshield wipers are under water, you know you’re in deep.
WCXC Southwest Trip: Canyon de Chelly Video
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via West County Explorers Club: I cut together this quick video from our trip to Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona. Apologies for the wind noise.
Dust Therapy: Stretching The Legs of My 4Runner (and Dog.)
A good friend of mine (who works too much) was back in town yesterday, so we decided that it was about time I took my truck out.
VOTD: Jeep, Mighty FC
On the trail as a comparison, they bring along a 1964 Jeep Forward Control crew cab. It’s funny to see the two together. The Mighty FC looks like a bulldog. The old Forward Control looks like a loaf of bread. It’s great to see footage of both of these truck on the road!