Well, we were planning on spending this week in Utah exploring Zion National Park and the surrounding areas… but with everything going on right now and so much uncertainty, we decided to stay close to home. Last summer I had put together a book of activities for our boys to 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
F150 DIY Aux Upfitter Switches
A clean switch install was a key requirement for us as we started adding some LED light pods to our truck. These will be used with the setup shown in F150 Behind-the-Grill Offroad LED Lights. There are plenty of universal things on the market, but most of them were bulky 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
Thanksgiving Aerodynamics, CFD of a Cooked Turkey
For absolutely no reason whatsoever, here is a quick CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis of a turkey flying through the air at 65mph. (The airflow is actually better than was expected, and there is even a bit of an airfoil effect going on here.) You’re welcome!
Prioritizing Family Time
I’ll be honest and admit that sometimes when Val brings up planning a camping week that my mind starts to race and sometimes my first response is, “no – we don’t have time!” But here’s the secret. We will never have time. But we will always try to find a 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