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Random back roads (RuralEx) photo. This is what it is all about (for me):

The entire build is about family adventure, so the family should be involved with the build too. As much as they can. My little girl is 4, my boy turns 6 in a few weeks. She wants to wear pink skirts and turn wrenches with me, he likes the electronics and HAM radio stuff. I'm having fun...

If you are reading this and wonder if you should test for Tech, read about my recent mis-adventure: http://talesofadventures.net/835-2/

Perhaps we should have some sort of power point driven brief run by the chain of command. Can we find someone to be in charge who hasn't driven on dirt or camped in 20 years? If we can then they can be in charge and give the briefing.

Headed to Tetons, Yellowstone and Glacier in June, might hit Big Bend in March...looks like fun!

FarmTek PolyMax. It's ABS aplastic, strong and much lighter than expanded steel. As in the 4ftx8ft of decking on my roof rack weighs 30lbs. https://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/ProductDisplay?catalogId=15052&storeId=10001&langId=-1&division=FarmTek&productId=20251 Right now it's zip tied to...

Very nice!

You know I've had this crazy idea of a rig built by bobbing a 6x6...and I really want a M101A1 for the base of an adventure trailer, but I also enjoy being married. :tonguewink:

You might get looked at funny pulling into the KOA after converting that to a kickass overlanding rig, but hell that thing is awesome!

THIS. I fell in love with the Overlanding idea as a kid for two reasons. Camel Trophy and Dakar. Watching broadcasts of Man trucks just FLYING through the open desert and I thought it was the most awesome thing ever. No little boy ever really grows up and a truck like this would be so...

I think the Earthroamer would have better road manners but the Unimog would drive through more stupidity before getting stuck. Except that would end in an epic stuck.

And they do no color correction, half the time their printer isn't even calibrated.

I'm building an E-van for family adventure and it is a build I've wanted to do for some time, but it isn't my dream rig. It is the best rig I can build for my budget. There is a dream rig, as impractical as it would be, if money wasn't a consideration. My dream rig would be a fully built...

And my dream is a fully built 4-door Unimog expedition class vehicle. I just need you and 10,000,000 of your closest friends to buy my books. :tonguewink:

We stayed in the Catalochee Valley which wasn't as bad as the main park. The road to the campground is a single lane goat trail, there is an unimproved road out of the valley too. Plenty to see in the valley, including a lot of elk right on the road, a perfect sunset overlook photo spot and a...

I hope so!

That was one of my goals when building it. :blush: Stacey David did something on his show a good while back where he brought in a project car, said what he wanted to do then went a wildly different direction to prove a point about setting project goals and following them. This build has some...

Front Panel Express for custom panels, they're surprisingly inexpensive!

Purchased from a fleet resale lot in north Texas in June 2015 on the way home from a two week trip to the Smokey Mountains. It took that trip to finally get my wife to agree to the purchase (After trying for nearly 5 years), found the van online and quickly made the purchase. 2003 E-150 XL...