The Overland Podcast

Fall Colors are the beauty that makes us look.  Everything changes.  Everything turns from one or few colors to many.  People gather in vehicles and just drive for no reason other than to check out the colors.  It makes us look.  It creates an avenue whereby we can see differently.  They open up a whole new perspective.  We look for them.  During the summer...

Holidays are meant for celebration.  They are meant to bring everyone together, to remind us of who we need to be, who we need to celebrate, attitudes we need to have and a way of life we should live throughout the year and not just a specific day or date, once or twice a year.  Time spent together is diminishing.  Holidays are more and more focused on things instead of each other....

This is the Overland Radio Show with Michael from All Over Overland, Lee from ONE Overland and myself talking with Mario from AT Overland about their amazing American Made products (Prescott, AZ).  Adventure Trailers / AT Overland (found at www.atoverland.com) is one of the few companies in North  America offering a comprehensive Overland fitment center, retailing,  and manufacturing, all under on...

During the week of Thanksgiving we took a trip out to visit our friends at Autotronix in Summersville, WV.  I had spoken to my friend Porker about redoing the wiring and installing a few other things in the FJ.  Autotronix specializes in wiring and installation of lights and everything else in Emergency Vehicles.  They took my FJ and made it all so much better than it was before.  We are safer and...

Here we are wrapping up season 1 with 40 episodes!  It is amazing that I just started a few months ago while sitting in a High School Parking Lot in Denver, CO while waiting on my wife to land at the airport.  I had some extra time and decided to sit in my vehicle and record my first episode on my phone about my previous 6 days overlanding with my Bulldog Bruiser.  It was comical as...

We do not need all of the gear offered everywhere around us, so the correlation between someone actually being labeled an Overlander and what they have is only an idea that we have drummed up in our own minds. We have convinced ourselves that in order to be "official" we have to "keep up the Joneses." We have convinced ourselves that if we want to fit in, we have to have the latest and best gear o...

Do you know that feeling of accomplishment when we have worked on something for so long and it is finally finished? You hold it. You sit back and look at it admiring your handiwork. You call your friends and brag about it. You takes pictures from every angle and post for the public to ooh and aah over. Many of us can remember the last time that has happened, for we are project managers. We are con...

Martin Luther King, Jr said, "From every mountainside, let freedom ring" as he quoted the song "America." Freedom rings for us throughout life. Whether it is squashed by authority or handed out like candy, it is there, ringing, calling your name. There is no replacement for the freedom handed to us by the great outdoors. Get out there and experience true freedom, and let it ring. It is calling. Ta...

Wanderlost Overland describes themselves this way on their YouTube Channel..."Our mission is to provide the overlanding  community with useful and practical instruction on modifying and  outfitting their adventure vehicle along with sharing details on  exciting and beautiful travel destinations across North America."  Mark and Merri have been entertaining us and informing us vi...

All Over Overland LIVE radio Show from 10-27-20. The quality of sound is not great as we were dealing with bad weather and worse connections. But it’s ok and you will enjoy this!

I have a special treat here for you with an interview of Jordan from ALNSM Overland.  Jordan joins me via WhatsApp from just outside of Paris, France while at home in Quarantine.  COVID shut down the borders of Europe just before embarking on a long journey through Mongolia, but not after he, his girlfriend and his cat had traveled in their Subaru through Norway, The Arctic Circle, Switz...

Overlanding is not considered a hobby, and for good reason. Yes, we do have collections of certain things that we love and cherish. The 18 coffee makers that dawn the shelves in our kitchen and the countless number of antique Coleman stoves in my garage are proof of that. That is a hobby. But when you put all of pieces together, Overlanding is known more and considered more as a way of life than a...

So after I wrote and published my podcast on FAMILY, I decided to ask my wife to come on with my and just have a conversation with me about us and how we got started in this lifestyle.  She was very nervous but reluctantly agreed.  I really hope that we can do this more often.  It really is a different way of communicating with you, the listener and very therapeutic for us to remini...

This is part 2 of my collaboration with Michael from All Over Overland. We set up the recorder right around the fire and just talked about our experience at the Rendezvous. Very soon after we started people started showing up out of the darkness and all joined in. It was amazing! You will love this great conversation about the event, rigs and just life in general. These are the best in my opinion....

In a duet with Michael from the All Over Overland Show on www.overlandradio.com this week!  We recapped our time at the Rendezvous in the Ozarks! The 4th Annual Rendezvous in the Ozarks was held as always on the 3rd weekend in October in 2020. A record number of 600 plus rigs and thousands of attendees came together in Oark AR at Byrds Adventure Center to see vendors, check out rigs, attend c...

The 4th Annual Rendezvous in the Ozarks hosted by Natural State Overland is an Expo Style event. Vendors come and showcase all of their new gear, trailers, rigs and equipment to the many overlanders who attend this event. Last year around 350 rigs were registered. This year there are more than 500 registered and it may prove to be the best event of 2020. We will have more to come from the event bu...

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. find out what it means to me.  I remember my girls singing this as they were growing up. I am not sure they understood what Respect even meant at the time, but now they are older they do.  It is saying "yes maam" and "yes sir."  It is giving others freedom as you have and allowing them to pick and choose what they love without being critical.  It is not having to have the last word...

What motivates you and keeps you motivated? It is easier to be motivated to do what we love, but sometimes we need a nudge to do anything.

We need less fair weather friends and fair weather fans. But we definitely need more fair weather. But nevertheless do not let the weather control you and hinder you from making memories. That just wouldn’t be fair.

Sometimes we are just trying to get where we are going. The destination is all that matters. Emote makes we just need to get away and enjoy the time to ourselves along the open road. Whatever your goal, take a look around each corner. For around each corner is a surprise, something new, something beautiful. All of it makes memories.

Jeff and Amber took their 3 children and 2 dogs on a 8k mile, 16 state, 7 week adventure and loved to tell about it! Join me as we have an amazing conversation recapping their experiences on this epic summer family trip!

In our daily life we have our own personal view of just about everything from politics to religion and everything in between. When you take me out of my every day and insert me into beautiful creation I look for a totally different kind of view.

You may never break a world record, you may never be the valedictorian or your teacher’s pet, you may not have a particular set of skills or be a genius...but nobody in this world has your story.

Even though the COVID Pandemic of 2020 was spread mainly through large dense crowds of people, the effects have been seen clear to the most remote parts of the forest. I need my life back and I need it back quick.

The sign read, “In the Forest I lose my mind and find it soul.” This is one of those neat little sayings that tug at the heartstrings. But as with every sermon and saying, it does nothing if you don’t apply it to your life. Let’s see if it applies.