Enthusiast III
Howdy!
I'm going to start this build thread with some back story about both the truck and how my family discovered overlanding. This will help explain some of the choices we are making for the new rig.
I'll start with our Jeep, Stomper.
In 2013 we bought a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 2dr with the dream of family adventure. We took it from Ohio to Washington and back wandering all over the North west seeing sights. We loved not having a real schedule and being out in our beautiful country. Shortly after this
my wife was deployed to Afghanistan for a year. While she was gone My son and I went to visit family here in Oklahoma. While visiting Moore, Ok The May 20 F5 Tornado hit.
The Jeep, along with a good portion of Moore, Ok. was trashed. Shortly after some really awesome folks from the Jeep community contacted me and offered to rebuild the Jeep.
The rebuild generated a lot of buzz in the aftermarket community, and Stomper was turned into a rock crawling beast.
He was returned to us in Vegas at the SEMA Show 6 mos. later. So now we owned one heck of a rock crawling monster. We took it all over and wheeled in places like Moab, Ut. pretty often.
But, I wanted to overland. The wanderlust was always there.
Then one day I was asked by a good friend to come back out to Moab and test out some new overlanding trailers. I was all in!
This was it! This is what we were originally after when we bought the Jeep! We dispersed camped for a few days and even tested the trailers on trails.
We stuffed that poor Jeep with the three of us, our 2 small dogs and our camping gear and started getting out and camping on the regular.
We were always compromised on space and were wanting to buy/build a trailer of our own. Before long we realized we weren't "wheeling" any more and more space for our camping gear was priority.
This is where Trigger comes in to the story. We bought a 2019 Ford Ranger FX4 Lariat with the sole intent of getting back to long distance overlanding and exploration.
I'm going to start this build thread with some back story about both the truck and how my family discovered overlanding. This will help explain some of the choices we are making for the new rig.
I'll start with our Jeep, Stomper.
In 2013 we bought a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 2dr with the dream of family adventure. We took it from Ohio to Washington and back wandering all over the North west seeing sights. We loved not having a real schedule and being out in our beautiful country. Shortly after this
my wife was deployed to Afghanistan for a year. While she was gone My son and I went to visit family here in Oklahoma. While visiting Moore, Ok The May 20 F5 Tornado hit.
The Jeep, along with a good portion of Moore, Ok. was trashed. Shortly after some really awesome folks from the Jeep community contacted me and offered to rebuild the Jeep.
The rebuild generated a lot of buzz in the aftermarket community, and Stomper was turned into a rock crawling beast.
He was returned to us in Vegas at the SEMA Show 6 mos. later. So now we owned one heck of a rock crawling monster. We took it all over and wheeled in places like Moab, Ut. pretty often.
But, I wanted to overland. The wanderlust was always there.
Then one day I was asked by a good friend to come back out to Moab and test out some new overlanding trailers. I was all in!
This was it! This is what we were originally after when we bought the Jeep! We dispersed camped for a few days and even tested the trailers on trails.
We stuffed that poor Jeep with the three of us, our 2 small dogs and our camping gear and started getting out and camping on the regular.
We were always compromised on space and were wanting to buy/build a trailer of our own. Before long we realized we weren't "wheeling" any more and more space for our camping gear was priority.
This is where Trigger comes in to the story. We bought a 2019 Ford Ranger FX4 Lariat with the sole intent of getting back to long distance overlanding and exploration.
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