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Dan Grec drove the Americas in a Wrangler with just a ground tent. Another guy (I can't remember his name) would sleep in a cargo box he had attached to his Wrangler. As a single guy, there is no limit to the possibilities for overlanding.

Every one should have, and know how to use, a P-38 can opener. A stainless set of 5 on Amazon is around $9. One of the best everyday carry items out there.

Don't forget to enjoy your "EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES" with your Brawndo, brought to you by Carl's Jr. Lately, the no tattoo scene is the most fitting.

Ours recently expired and we haven't visited a park since, last time we bought one at the first park that had paid entry. We have used them to also get free day use access to several National Forest Recreation Sites in the past, they usually let us get water and dump our porta potti which was...

Years ago we would watch Idiocracy and laugh, today it is more of a cringe horror movie. Maybe we should make t-shirts that say: "Everyone is Clevon", "Save Clevon to Save the World", "All I have is an #$%@ing Clevon". Probably would get sued since all of those are plays on tv/movie catch...

We had an 03 HO WJ but it was the Freedom Edition, so 2wd. We only bought it because a colleagues daughter worked for Daimler Chrysler and had an employee friends and family discount that was about to expire. We ended up getting it on December 31st and back then, not sure about today, the...

When you're a packer, you're forever a packer...but do you practice pack? I might have a slight undiagnosed case of OCD. On the subject of packing. We quickly realized it was better to organize gear by usage and not necessarily by type. We too have a bin system but our less frequently used...

I can't remember the exact joke and a cursory search didn't locate it but here's the jest (maybe someone here knows the correct version): We had finally invented a time machine and someone was sent back to meet Copernicus. After the initial shock, Copernicus asked "how is life so different in...

For the ultimate minimalist you can buy your own freeze dryer and make your own freeze dried meals. You don't even need hot water as room temperature water will reconstitute them, just takes a bit longer. The freeze dryer could set you back a few grand so maybe just eat raw ramen noodles and...

Thanks, same to you. We pulled off the road after 7 years, never spending more than an hour apart, which was rare and usually due to bureaucratic things like when we were shipping the van and only I could enter the shipping yard etc. We were anxious about returning to work after being together...

We use cup sized jars as drinking glasses and when we need to store something like opened coconut milk in the fridge. We bought a cheap pack of women's socks and slip one over each jar for transport/storage (not in the fridge). Our fear was breaking one while going down the trail and having to...

Since marriage, almost 25 years ago, I have only camped without Mandi once. Might explain why we lean towards the meals we do but since she is always with me I will never mind.

Should add that a stove top pressure cooker can also can be used as a stand alone pot.

Stove top. We haven't gotten into the electric ones and being Floridians we still prefer things we can use when there is a hurricane.

I will add, our pressure cooker has really changed the game. We started with a dutch oven but that wasn't our thing. We picked up a pressure cooker, mostly do to meat quality, and boy did it improve our meal selection. If we are around others, once they hear it someone almost always comes over...

It definitely depends on what you are cooking. We can't do the hotdog and sandwich thing anymore so we cook the same meals we do while at home. The amount of cooking equipment we carry is absurd but we are southern so food is required to be one of our things. We also carry a huge assortment of...

Another vote for Victron, we switched out many components to theirs when we changed from AGM to Lithium. I'm not 100% on what you are attempting to accomplish but, personally, if I were building a non-fulltime rig I'd go with AGM and a Blue Sea Systems Battery Link. As for charge controller...

The best are a combination of website/blog and video. Friends of our just visited Borneo to see orangutans. They sold their overland rig and switched to backpacks for a couple years with plans of buying a rig in Europe/Africa. Anyway, they wrote a blog post about their time in Borneo full of the...

Since we are on the topic... I'd like to add that I absolutely loathe that almost everything IS a video these days. For those that plan it is a nightmare. Like I'm going to watch a 30 minute video to get the one detail I need to solve or overcome my particular problem. Repair videos I get, but...

I haven't watched the video yet but I tell people "you officially become an overlander the moment you realize you have left the term in the dust on some nature forsaken road so long ago you can’t remember the country…let alone the town. It’s just a moniker, one that isn’t important, and one...