After watching what seems like hundreds of hours of Overland Bound videos on YouTube I made my way to the website and forum. I read Michael's post on the core values of Overland Bound and I was hooked. The idea of a help each other out community seems like a wonderful idea.
I have joined several other web communities in the past and none of them seem to be as friendly as this place (from the trolling that I have already done).
I drive a 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. I have had it for a year now and love it. Since picking it up, I have added a winch and some shelving in the back but other than that she is pretty much stock.
In Alberta, we have several good offroading parks around us and are surrounded by crown land(I think in America you call it BLM land). I try to get out into the backcountry once a month.
Growing up dad always had a 4WD and some of my best memories are of us heading out and tearing it up. During and after college I moved into adventure motorcycling. I spent weeks on the back of a DRZ400 exploring the back roads. I buddy and I rode up to Deadhorse Alaska a round trip of 13,000km and we ended up doing almost 9,000km of that on gravel roads.
Since then, I focused on my career, got married, had a baby..... ok, ok, my wife had the baby but I was there too. Over the past few years, I feel I have gone from living adventures to watching them, reading about them, and dreaming about them. The slogan "Adventure is Necessary" means more to me than I can admit. I have a wonderful wife who says she understands and I am going to try and force myself back into a state of adventure.
Don't misunderstand me. I have a good job, a beautiful wife, an adorable 1.5-year-old boy. All and all life has been pretty good to me. But it also means that I have work stress, family commitments, not enough hours in the day, and somehow it ends up feeling like I am griding away.
This is probably more than anyone should share on a New Members Start Here post but, I guess that is who I am. I look forward to asking a bunch of stupid questions and sharing my limited knowledge.
Thanks!
I have joined several other web communities in the past and none of them seem to be as friendly as this place (from the trolling that I have already done).
I drive a 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. I have had it for a year now and love it. Since picking it up, I have added a winch and some shelving in the back but other than that she is pretty much stock.
In Alberta, we have several good offroading parks around us and are surrounded by crown land(I think in America you call it BLM land). I try to get out into the backcountry once a month.
Growing up dad always had a 4WD and some of my best memories are of us heading out and tearing it up. During and after college I moved into adventure motorcycling. I spent weeks on the back of a DRZ400 exploring the back roads. I buddy and I rode up to Deadhorse Alaska a round trip of 13,000km and we ended up doing almost 9,000km of that on gravel roads.
Since then, I focused on my career, got married, had a baby..... ok, ok, my wife had the baby but I was there too. Over the past few years, I feel I have gone from living adventures to watching them, reading about them, and dreaming about them. The slogan "Adventure is Necessary" means more to me than I can admit. I have a wonderful wife who says she understands and I am going to try and force myself back into a state of adventure.
Don't misunderstand me. I have a good job, a beautiful wife, an adorable 1.5-year-old boy. All and all life has been pretty good to me. But it also means that I have work stress, family commitments, not enough hours in the day, and somehow it ends up feeling like I am griding away.
This is probably more than anyone should share on a New Members Start Here post but, I guess that is who I am. I look forward to asking a bunch of stupid questions and sharing my limited knowledge.
Thanks!
