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We have been doing campgrounds but are working towards dispersed camping. The primary factor is the wife is a city girl at heart so I have been inching her towards camping. We have been very lucky with the campgrounds we have stayed at. Going off season is the biggest factor, at Blue Heron (Big...

The wife and I will be setting up at the Tellico Plans Cherohala Skyway Visitor Center (35°22'01.5"N 84°17'50.0"W). We figure its going to be busy around there but there is lots of parking and a number of large fields right behind the visitor center. We will be coming out of Lotterdale...

I agree. The intention is to have an event that would bring all the members together in one place but this is a big ass country. The idea is to have the event in the desert but all the deserts are on "that" side of the county which is a two or three day drive from us. The result is you have...

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What ever vehicle you have right now is the best vehicle. That's not poking fun at you, that is one of the best questions you can ask when just starting out. The reason the one you have is the best is because its the cheapest. There are tons of ways to Overland. Some travel the globe on extended...

If you look at the history of Overlanding or Adventure Travel, its been around from the advent of the automobile. In Ken Burns book "The National Parks" he talks about a couple who visited every National Park in the teens through the 1930's. I read an article about two women who drove...

Lifting your vehicle because it looks good is totally fine, that goes back to the early days of the automobile. Putting a winch on your vehicle just in case or draws to make it easier is all part of doing what makes you happy or supports your style of Overlanding. I think the issue we are...

I generally agree. However, I don't have a lot of faith in that. One guy comes to mind, he talked about his trip to Mexico and how he left his stickers all over. That is not Tread Lightly or Leave No Trace. I think it would take a concerned effort to get people like this to understand...

I normally wouldn't talk about this but since you brought it up. What we do use to be called car camping but if you use that term you are apt to be burned at the stake. I guess calling it car camping just isn't manly enough for most people. On the other side, I get so tired of watching youtube...

Overlanding, to me anyways, is about exploring. No big picture or alternative agenda, its just exploring. We dig seeing new things and meeting new, and hopefully different, people. We are not hardcore, dirt only, people. By this we mean, we have somewhere we want to get to and will take which...

Our focus is on exploring areas so our use of forestry roads is simply to get from one area to another or to a specific spot. To get to Bear Creek Overlook involved a couple cool dirty roads. The Divide Road going through Big South Fork is improved gravel. When you get down to the GSMNP, there...

We are going through the same process of finding the right trail to fit our needs. We started out looking at a utility with a RTT. Top on our list is the CVT trailer. Although we still have it in mind, we moved utilities down to number three on our list. Number two on our list is popups. The...

These lists are a great place to start but they do not fit everyone and every situation. First, what type of Overlanding at you looking at doing? If you are starting off with a style that keeps you mainly on asphalt and gravel, you will need far less stuff than if you take on something like the...

Travel: Heading up to Telico Plains for the Eclipse in August. Spring trip to West Virginia. If we have time will try to make it back to Overland Expo East. Mods: Air bags in the rear (tired of dragging my tail when loaded). Would like to get our trailer this year so we can step up our game but...

Coleman. The wife likes it so I'm happy.

Due to the hurricane it got canceled but I believe my daughter is working on rescheduling in March.

We are starting to plan our next spring trip for sometime around May. Our last trip to Big South Fork and Cumberland Gap was great but there is so much more we want to explore so we are returning to the west side of the Appalachians. We had the chance to talk with Jason from Mountain State...

Mountain State Overland did a trip up that way earlier this year and has posted their videos on Youtube. Check them out.

We have a similar plan we came up with early last year, to run the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to Maine. We ended up figuring out that the trip was too ambitious to complete in two weeks. We did the southern half in July 15 starting in north Georgia and running up to Gettysburg by way of...

The question is what was the first "vehicle" you explored in? Well, because of the nature of the job I have in the Army I did a lot of exploring. I think a lot of my interest in Overlanding, camping, exploring, and just traveling came that time. The first vehicle I explored in was a M88A1 Medium...