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Excellent points. Back beginning in 98 we started doing long range trips in our jeep. Gas was 4.00 a gallon average. Now gas is 3.25 average & with cost of living increases over the past 23 years gasoline is really cheap. Spending a couple 3 or so thousand to garner a mile per gallon doesn’t...

No problem here, camped at 10,000 ft a few times and a whole lot more at 5-7000 feet. Mount your propane tank above it. Gravity works eh?

Welcome to the club. We are, after all, driving rather large bricks down the road. My 2004 Rubicon averaged 10 mpg, loaded on tours. We now average 12mpg with our Landcruiser with a GVWR of 6800 lbs, and the trailer at 1400 lbs. highway speeds never exceed 68mph. I use the cruise control...

Hey all, we are currently in South Carolina and going to head due north up along the PeeDee into Uwarrie, then up to and through Pisgah NF connecting to the Byway. if you all trust me, PM me about anywhere we can disperse camp. thanks !!

Kelly’s Point is fabulous, period. However the trek is not for the ill equipped or light hearted. It lies on the north rim 100 miles south of St.George. However, the last 25-30 miles is very technical, turning the 100 mile drive into an 8 hour adventure. One might not encounter anyone. We...

We remote camp. We used to carry a large tent for base camp and a three man tent for overnighter s. Over the years it became somewhat frustrating when we would be unable to pitch either of our tents because of a multitude of reasons, rocky, muddy, not enough level space, pull through sites...

Interesting; I attempted that method with E rated BFGs. Could never really determine 75% of what? Flat? To the OP, Our wagon, when loaded is at its GVWR 6900lbs +/- and does quite well at 20lbs, down from 36lbs in every sort of terrain one might cover. I aired down to 12lbs only once and...

@Moebius01; Your best bet would be to explore the national parks that have remote vehicle camping, then make your reservations. Big Bend, White Rim trail of Canyonlands, Cape Lookout, are just three that offer remote, primitive vehicle camping. This kind of camping is controlled, as in, it...

Yes, there is only one place ( hint hint ) and I gotta ask, (rhetorically) once again- where are all the “ overlanders”? There might be half a dozen others camping on the south island. 90 degrees; steady winds; perfect beach camping weather and no one within our site.

Yup, We have never been anywhere where we felt the necessity to “ lock-up”. Many years ago we parked our rag topped trailer & rag topped jeep in a rough neighborhood of Montreal. We visited my friend for several hours. When we got back to our rig nothing had been disturbed. As with Road’s...

Most of you guys & gals know what we have, (fzj80 with off road trailer that will go anywhere our 80 will go. I tell no one where we go except family & good, friends and most of them have neither the time or the equipment to get there. We’re on a trip now , remote beach camping. Unfortunately...

We camped at a ferry terminal. Pleasantly awakened at 3:00 AM to a shrimp boat returning to port. Captured the event with an iPhone through the mesh windows of our rtt.

Yes, over my career I watched the corporation I worked for swallow up a multitude of smaller entities. Each time, QC fell off for a month or so, until the aquisitioned employees realized their compensation packages were actually better than adverstized. The first canopy was obviously...

Yesterday I installed the replacement canopy. I can only think that Thule understood there were more than a couple of bad tents in that batch, which is why they responded with a brand new canopy, instead of a repair kit. The original had two, three little things wrong with it that were obvious...

Ok I give up, I deploy 120 watts of solar panels. Our fridge set at 38f uses less than 3% of available voltage using a pair of AGMs @125 ah, with ambient temps in the 80s / 60s. In perfect sunlight conditions the AGMs are back up to 12.9 volts in a couple of hours. So, what are the numbers...

Only in an off handed sort of way. We always carry rain gear, cold, warm & hot weather clothing. The exception would be for wild/primitive beach camping. We’d not want to be anywhere near a hurricane. We were in big bend a few years ago and experienced heavy thunder & rainstorms every...