Our trip to Overland Expo West this year was especially welcomed as we were looking forward to getting away and enjoying the event. We appreciate being selected as volunteers and we loved our assignments. On Thursday, we worked in the HQ tent checking people in. On Friday and Sunday, we were stationed at the Concierge …
#036 – Overland Travel | Interview with Chris Shontz | Venture 4WD
We had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Chris Shontz with Venture 4WD (pronounced venture forward) at Overland Expo West 2018. About a year and a half ago, Chris left his job as a programmer to explore and seek adventure traveling and living in his Jeep Wrangler full time. We have followed Chris for months …
Travel Log | Overland Expo West | May 2018
Our notes and a few snapshots of our trip to Overland Expo West 2018 Stats: Vehicle: Rented 2018 VW Tiguan Total Miles Traveled: 2566 Total Gallons: 98.6 Avg Cost Per Gallon: $2.760 Average MPG: 26.03 Time Odometer Notes Photo Sunday, May 13, 2018 9:17 AM 1945 Left Springfield House 9:20 AM 1947 Stopped at …
#029 – Gearing Up For Our Trip West
Our departure day of leaving our home in Missouri to go out West to attend Overland Expo West 2018 is fast approaching. We’ve been busy preparing and planning. With each trip we take, we get better at planning. When we go on these trips, we also take along our office so that we can work …
Hike up Mt Rogers, Virginia
Our hike up to the summit of Mt. Rogers, the highest point of Virginia, was one of our high points of our trip (no pun intended, well maybe a pun was intended). We tracked our trail on the way up using Gaia GPS for the first time. Loving the app! We didn’t have any Internet …
#009 – We Made It! | Getting to Overland Expo East
It’s not an adventure unless something goes wrong, right? Well, we wouldn’t say things went too wrong, but the fear of a tire flying off did put a spark of excitement into our trip. Have a listen to our little adventure we had getting from Missouri to North Carolina to attend Overland Expo East. We were …
#008 – Reminiscing Overland Expo West 2016
As this episode publishes, we are on our way to Asheville, NC to volunteer at Overland Expo East. We recorded this episode when we were preparing for our trip and reflect on our first Overland Expo experience in May 2016. Episode Highlights: First experience with Overland Expo at Morman Lake, AZ (Check out the …
Overland Expo West 2016 – Our Recap
This was our first year to go to Overland Expo. Last October, we were just off by a week in our schedule to attend Overland Expo East. That was OK, because a hurricane was going through the east coast during that time and pummeled the event with rain. It was last October, however, when we …
Day 5 — Foster Falls and Chicken of the Woods
By 8 a.m., we were packed up and had left the campsite and headed east toward Monteagle, TN. We passed through Winchester and connected on Hwy 41A east. When we arrived at Cowan, we had to stop. It was such a cute small town. We needed to take some photos. We were stopped by a …
Day 4 — Tims Ford State Park for the Day
We stayed put at Tims Ford State Park for the day. We needed to get some work done and since I figured out that we had some Verizon MiFi signal, we felt a ton better to get something accomplished. The Internet wasn’t lightning fast, but it sure workable. After work was done, we did some …