If you are not deflating your tires for off-roading already, there are two big reasons for you to start. It protects your tires (lower pressure lets the tires “wrap” around rocks and spread the pressure over a larger surface area to prevent punctures) this also gives your tire much better Continue Reading
Off Road Driving & Riding
5th Generation 4Runner: First Impressions
It’s been just about a month since I upgraded my mom-mobile to a 5th gen Toyota 4Runner. My first impression of the beast? Awesome. I love having Val’s truck (now a 2nd gen Raptor) for our camping weekends and longer adventures… but the Ford is SO wide that it’s not Continue Reading
Budget LED Off-Road Lights
Let’s be clear here… if you are running a $500k trophy truck and racing the Baja 1000, Mint 400, or King of the Hammers and the like… your lights are a critical component to your race and your sponsor’s investment, and thus need to be as reliable as possible. But, Continue Reading
DIY Wheel Alignment – Laser Level
SCROLL DOWN FOR CALCULATOR With all the rough terrain that we’ve been driving though lately, the $99 alignments were starting to add up. In our past life, we used to do string alignments on our race cars. (Keep in mind that this only adjusts the toe settings, camber can be Continue Reading
F150 Behind-the-Grill Offroad LED Lights
The way we see it, there are two purposes for off-road lights: to see, and to be seen. Doing more desert trips with other vehicles we wanted to be sure to have some amber LED’s at the front and back, as well as some while LED’s for the front. A Continue Reading
Where To Next? Finding Great Destinations To Explore
The big question always seems to be – where to next? It can be hard to find new places to hike, camp, or off-road. And honestly, when we started off-roading more a few years ago, we always went to the same spot. Butcher Jones. It was easy and we knew Continue Reading
Overland Route Planning
As we started getting more and more into off-roading and camping, one of the first big challenges we started facing was simply figuring out where to go. Sounds easy, but not… All the well known easy access places are busy, and privacy is hard to come by. I personally dislike Continue Reading
Affordable Roof Top Tent for the Family
When we stated to do more camping and overlanding with our two boys, there was one simple question that was surprisingly hard to find a solid answer to – Will a roof top tent work for a family of 4? Yes it will. After looking at many tents online, comparing Continue Reading
Off-road Radios
Oddly enough, when we were getting our gear together for overland adventures, it was rather difficult to find useful guidance for radio communications. Professional race teams use the expensive equipment, sporting goods shops sell the restrictive low power handhelds (walkie-talkies) and auto parts stores generally carry CB-Radios. I won’t go Continue Reading
What is overlanding, exactly?
Lately, I’ve been adding #overlandfam to a lot of my Instagram posts. It’s taken me a little while to own our place as an overlanding family. I often get asked though, what does mean to “overland”. It’s not a silly question at all, and truthfully, it wasn’t really a term Continue Reading