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Is that over near Holcomb ranch? If so I was just there a few weeks ago. Three years ago, if you didn't get there early friday you couldn't get a good spot.
I wonder if this means I can go back to calling it off-road camping again?
Is Overlanding Dead?
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I wonder if this means I can go back to calling it off-road camping again?
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I agree. However, my original one, going on 5+ years now, has dropped to all but non-existent. I've been the only one showing up for the last several months. So, it's not like there isn't something available. The folks just don't attend anymore.
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I believe that the original idea of a meet up was great but that may have run its course, people I talk to want rally points for trips and not everyone wants to work on a trip then put out an open invite.
Overlanding or what ever you want to call it is what we make it, but its defiantly not dead just not as visible maybe.
Ill try to get in touch with you when we swing through TX next June.
I dreamed of finding that truck again some day and buying it back. Being able to modify and build it with my adult skill set and budget, it would have been amazing. And I did find it. Sadly, totaled and sold by the insurance company. I don't know how to track it down from there. https://ucars.pro/vin/1GCCT14B6F2100641
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Yeah, I think so too. Unless you're doing this full time, it's hard to set up trips around work schedules.
Exactly. The overland bandwagoneers have moved on to the next popular thing, so nearly all the Instatweettubers have gone away. Which, I'm fine with since it makes the trips we do take much more peaceful.
That would be cool. It's not a very big state, so should be easy to find us.
Traveler III
For those of us who really get it, who got into overlanding because we genuinely LOVE vehicle based adventure, Overlanding will never die because the things that make it great never change. The bandwagon jumpers will disappear, but all the better for us diehards.
Advocate III
Well the party is over for me since I am almost 65 and my rig has 400,000 miles on it. Does any one know if you retire from the group do you keep your badge number or does it go to another new member?
Enthusiast III
i have spent way to much money and built several rigs but I still have my and love my 80 and now the new LC 250. The adventure will continue and the community as a whole is and has always been great. The outdoors in my happy place and as helped me keep what's left of my sanity in this crazy world.
Influencer I
Overlanding is yet another thing YouTubers, Yota Bros and social media influencers have ruined. I really hope every one of those clowns has to eat all the crap they shilled for the last decade.
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Yes influencers, overlanding is dead for you. Now, sell me all your stuff for really cheap.
Influencer I
I continue to do what I’ve done for 40 years.
CAR CAMP!
Overlanding was a grift all about money and clout. People with more money than brains trying to feel good about themselves.
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Is Overlanding dead, no it still exists like it did in the 1990's before it became a must have to acquire a titanium spork. I started in an old MK3 smiley transit van (for the US folks you might need to Google that) or if I can find a pic I will attach.
Is OB dead, well that's an easy answer for the UK and Europe is on its way to. In the UK not one RP organised or attended for at least 12 months by the 1000+ members, cannot organise anything under the OB banner in most cases due to legal and insurance rules that OB ignore and answer with the community is not important anymore as we are an app business.
OB existed to bring people together (or so it said in the beginning) it needed momentum instead it got greedy and lost focus. Here in the UK we are back to our vehicle specific groups as that is the easy way a group finds a common purpose, i.e LR owners, Jeep owners etc.. Huge shame, but that's the way it is.
Is OB dead, well that's an easy answer for the UK and Europe is on its way to. In the UK not one RP organised or attended for at least 12 months by the 1000+ members, cannot organise anything under the OB banner in most cases due to legal and insurance rules that OB ignore and answer with the community is not important anymore as we are an app business.
OB existed to bring people together (or so it said in the beginning) it needed momentum instead it got greedy and lost focus. Here in the UK we are back to our vehicle specific groups as that is the easy way a group finds a common purpose, i.e LR owners, Jeep owners etc.. Huge shame, but that's the way it is.
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Traveler III
Only 65?
I plan to keep adventuring as long as I can walk and they don't take away my driver's license for dementia or something lol
Heck, my rig has like 358,000km on it right now, and that's not stopping me. If your rig breaks too badly and isn't worth fixing, go find a $2000 Land Rover Discovery or something and keep adventuring! Why stop now?
Honda CRV like yours, much less likely to break down and a good AWD smaller SUV with high clearance
Traveler III
Well, of course my love of the CR-V is well document by this point lol. First Gen CR-V gets my enthusiastic recommendation, especially with a lift and bigger tires.
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My wife (girlfriend at the time) and I were "car camping" through Scotland in the early 90's out of a '92 Mustang GT. Got quite a few looks from the locals when pulling into a farmers field for the night near Loch Lomond. We didn't care because most of them were hairy coos anyway.
