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Sorry if I get a bit long winded on this. I think we sometimes forget that this is a protection issue. Going back to President Lincoln, the Federal Government has identified lands that it deemed as needing protection for a number of reasons. The primary reason is they saw a unique area they...

1/2 inch Birch plywood. Some of the bracing inside I am using 3/4 Pine so I have a good side grain to side grain glue joint. With the plywood I would have an end grain joint which is not as strong.

We aren't big camp fire people, we seem to put out far more than we ever start. Even so, I would ask the the people who really know. Here is the link to Leave No Trace (https://lnt.org/). They are great people and very helpful. They have a facebook page also.

Update: I never said this was going to be a quick project. Got the left upper and side panels done. There is a lot of custom fitting because Jeep doesn't like flat panels on the inside of the Jeep. I already started the next step which is making the drawer for the front of the panel.

I know we have a lot of new people getting into overlanding (Overland Expo claims a 25% increase each year) and many of these are new to nature in general, going off the pavement, or sleeping in something that doesn't have walls made of wood or concrete. We also have people who have been...

So I get up this morning and figured I would watch a video or two on Youtube before I started my day. I ran across a video with "Overland Bound" in the title and thought that would be a great video to watch. By the time I got a quarter of the way through the video I was so disgusted I had to...

I have the Garvin rack. Picture shows it installed per instructions. its mounts to the bolts that secure the top with big beefy brackets. I ended up swapping the mounting from side to side and flipping them over to gain a little more height. I have an Engle 35L fridge mounted on a base plate...

Are you planning to mount an awning? I got with FourTreks to pick up a set of their awning mounts. They make it easy to mount and unmounted the awning, the bar mount stays in place and the mount on the awning stays on it. Putting it back on only involves four bolts and everything stays lined up...

We have a Congo Pro rack with the Stealth Platform, katwalk and hing steps on the front doors. We went with this rack because it is beefy, its going to hold up to the loads for long duration. Every rack we looked at were made with 1 inch tubing, the KMS rack is 2 inch tubing. Also, KMS is great...

I think the 4.10 would be the tallest I would go. Since we don't have issues right now and only see a mild lag when loaded during a trip I don't see it as a priority right now. Once we get everything done that we are planning we will see how things go. We have a trip planned for May and will see...

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We weren't planning any engine modifications. The '14 has the 3.6l which a good strong engine and we've had no issues with power yet. Also, we are pulling 19-20 mpg on our trips, depending on load and roads, and can't complain about that. I ran the Jeep for a couple weeks with the RTT mounted...

As our Jeep sneaks up on 50,000 miles we felt it was time to start hitting those items that tend to have wear issues. The intention is to change out the factory items and replace them with upgraded, aftermarket, items to reduce the possibility of breakage in the middle of nowhere and provide...

We had to replace the mountain hood that the dealer put on when we got the Jeep so we had a local graphic shop do a topographic map of Caynonland National Park.

Planning stage for Return to the Parkway Trip. Revisiting the Blue Ridge Parkway to explore various State Parks along the Parkway.

UPDATE: National Parks visited - East of the Mississippi (West of the Mississippi go on the right side, we only have one at this time) Places we have hiked (on the inside of the glass are some of the state parks we have visited) Organizations we support The patches are more...

As 1BigJimmy mentioned previously, figure out your style of Overlanding before you start sticking money in your rig. All of us were newbies at one point and had to figure out how to transition from pure off roading or pure camping to Overlanding or start from square one. For most of us a fully...

We got the Coleman Thermocooler and used it for about a year. Its good for keeping drinks cool. As for food, if we stop during the day to pick up stuff for dinner that evening it is also good. If we got stuff for breakfast the next morning it was good enough but that would be as far as we would...

Most Florida beaches do not allow dogs. We ran into this at Fort Pickens last week. This doesn't mean dogs are not allowed, there are just restrictions. We were allow to venture anywhere except the beach and fort. Looking at St. George Island I saw the same thing, not on the beach but they are...

When the daughter went off to college, the wife and I started doing day trips. At the time we had a Suburban Z-71 we bought while doing 18th century living history. While exploring Cades Cove (GSMNP) we realized we were running out of time to get to Knoxville. Looking on the map we saw a trail...