Hi everybody. Just signed up from NE Florida here.
Not really sure what I've been doing qualifies as "overlanding" It's more, sleeping in the truck during a 2 or 3 day long hunting trip. lol I'm in Florida. the whole states only like 200 miles across and, unless you're in the everglades, I don't think it's possible to get more than half an hour from a Publix. My outings consist of taking a management area trail a few miles back in the swamp to a camping area and then setting up camp for a day or two. Or maybe getting to a few canoe/small boat launches I know of that you can really only get to with a 4x4. That said, in the near future I plan on taking more trips out of the southeast and hopefully a trip a year out west looking for elk. Which would be more in line with the norm here.
I used to have a really unpredictable schedule and drove an excursion 4x4 that I set up to be comfortable to sleep in and store my gear in so I could take advantage of any free time that came up and head to the woods with very little prep or notice. I suppose I was putting together an overlander rig and didn't know it. Sadly, it died and was replaced with an 07 Tundra that I set up a little. But a busy schedule, and poor planning habits tbh, have seen me pretty well use it up without really ever setting it up. Now I just got suckered into a 2014 Raptor by the GF (she's wayyy more into cars than I am) and I'm determined to get out more now that my schedule allows it. This forum appears to be a VAST wealth of knowledge when it comes to prepping a vehicle for this kind of use. I hope to tap into some of it. Maybe I'll be able to share some back the other way as well.
Here she is, Just got the shell on yesterday. Stripped Leer, nothing special. Not sure what her name is yet. It'll come to me. All my cars end up getting named.
The building has begun I suppose. :)
Not really sure what I've been doing qualifies as "overlanding" It's more, sleeping in the truck during a 2 or 3 day long hunting trip. lol I'm in Florida. the whole states only like 200 miles across and, unless you're in the everglades, I don't think it's possible to get more than half an hour from a Publix. My outings consist of taking a management area trail a few miles back in the swamp to a camping area and then setting up camp for a day or two. Or maybe getting to a few canoe/small boat launches I know of that you can really only get to with a 4x4. That said, in the near future I plan on taking more trips out of the southeast and hopefully a trip a year out west looking for elk. Which would be more in line with the norm here.
I used to have a really unpredictable schedule and drove an excursion 4x4 that I set up to be comfortable to sleep in and store my gear in so I could take advantage of any free time that came up and head to the woods with very little prep or notice. I suppose I was putting together an overlander rig and didn't know it. Sadly, it died and was replaced with an 07 Tundra that I set up a little. But a busy schedule, and poor planning habits tbh, have seen me pretty well use it up without really ever setting it up. Now I just got suckered into a 2014 Raptor by the GF (she's wayyy more into cars than I am) and I'm determined to get out more now that my schedule allows it. This forum appears to be a VAST wealth of knowledge when it comes to prepping a vehicle for this kind of use. I hope to tap into some of it. Maybe I'll be able to share some back the other way as well.
Here she is, Just got the shell on yesterday. Stripped Leer, nothing special. Not sure what her name is yet. It'll come to me. All my cars end up getting named.
The building has begun I suppose. :)
