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Hi all we are from the middle Tennessee area. We have a 2012 Nissan pathfinder r51. Just finished a 2 in lift and we are pretty much, beginners. Just paid for gaia gps and was brought to this site trying to figure out how to find places to go offroad in our area. I also plan on doing a yearly trip in sections of the tat but not sure if I can go with waypoints now that I have gaia. Any help instructions would be greatly appreciated thanks
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Greetings from Indiana! I hail from Columbus, specifically. I've been lurking for a few weeks on the site to get my bearings, etc. It really is an awesome site and community you guys/we have here. Looking forward to being part of it!
Casey Craven
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Hello There!
I'm Casey Craven, I live in Western NC, USA. I have a 2007 FJ Cruiser. Most (essentially all) of my "overland" experience involved me living out of an LAV 25 for 4 years. I've been more into rocks since I got this FJC, but I want to branch out.
I'm Casey Craven, I live in Western NC, USA. I have a 2007 FJ Cruiser. Most (essentially all) of my "overland" experience involved me living out of an LAV 25 for 4 years. I've been more into rocks since I got this FJC, but I want to branch out.
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Great looking rig. Welcome to the community, sounds like you’ll have some great experience to contribute right away!
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Hi everyone, my name is Clay and I'm in Lexington, KY. My wife and I have been in to Jeeps for awhile (2006 LJ Rubicon and 2018 JLU Rubicon) and this past year I've taken a dive into the Land Cruiser World. Currently I have two 1985 FJ60s and was planning to build one out for Overlanding but recently picked up a 1997 LX450 that will go through some restoration and be our Overlanding setup. I did a lot of backpacking and outdoor activities with Scouts growing up and now with two young children we're looking forward to traveling with them in the outdoors.
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Hey everyone! I’m Omar I’m looking to get back into camping and outdoors still trying to figure out how good an option it is to use my current rig, I look forward to get more knowledge and tips from y’all!!
Location: Winder, GA
Rig: 2015 Silverado 3500HD
Experience: intermediate
Location: Winder, GA
Rig: 2015 Silverado 3500HD
Experience: intermediate
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Hello Omar and welcome. You didn't say whether or not your truck is a 4x4 or not. If it isn't, I wouldn't go off road onto anything except maintained dirt roads without it. (Been there and done that without much success also remembering that I always want to know that wherever I go I want to get back home and there is not always someone there to help you out of a situation) I think if I were you or your truck were mine I would watch a lot of the off road video's offered on utube before you make any decision to use your current rig. I had to make the same choice of which rig out of two that I already have. I decide my full size 4x4 Dodge Ram 250 was too big for the places I wanted to go. My other choice was to use my 2008 4 wheel drive Escape. It was small enough to go anywhere and big enough to do the job but it didn't have a low/high range transmission. Strike two. So I found a nice 2000 Model Land Rover Discovery that already has most of the equipment from the factory for some serious off road trips. All it needs is a lift for more height, the tires will do for now, some armor for the sides and rear and the addition of a winch. I bought the LRD for $2000 and plan a budget of $2000 for the modifications. I'll add a rear locker later when I get brave enough to climb some of the terrane out there. While looking I also found a lot of Older Jeep Cherokees and Toyotas. The cheap ones needed too much work and the decent ones were too expensive for me and all needed the same things the LRD needed. I hope you get a lot of experienced kickback info from our group. I think a lot of us had to make the same choices at one time or another. Good luck and good trailing.
Haha I missed that one, Yes it’s a 4x4!!! Awesome information! After reading a bit in some older threads and see there are lots of people using full size but as you said it does depend where you want to go, And I love the idea of trying to sort a dedicated rig, there are many capable older model cars that just need some care and a mod here and there, cause many times we forget that the whole idea of overlanding in general no matter what it means to each and everyone of us it’s all about having fun!!!
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Yes, I agree but I cant have much fun if I bang up a valuable rig that has to be worked on for a week before I can go again. If the rig is built it doesn't make much difference what it looks like as long as it does the job you ask it to do. When you have a rig that has a specific use, it may not be as useful for the everyday drive. There is a happy medium I think and that is where I want to be. I'm not about to ask my rig to do something it wasn't designed to do. I don't plan to do any radical things myself but I want to go just about anywhere others can go as a group. I'm not young enough to be out there in the wilderness by myself so that wont happen either. I like the way member No. 0000 and his wife Amanda use their rig. Have you watched any of their expeditions ?
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Dang it man, I really love that Yeller Toyote. Just my style and I'm envious, waaaaaaa
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Welcome Clay from KY! Great to have you here! Some great looking vehicles you have there Clay!!
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No Duelies here but check this out for full size trucks....
100% agreed I think my current rig will end up being the transporter! And you are right I’m not into some serious rock crawling or anything fancy I just want to make it out there and keep up.
I have not yet been able to watch much on YouTube I stumbled across overland bound looking for some overlanding podcasts and saw they even have an episode with Ronny Dahl Will but will definitely make a marathon out of the video playlists.
