"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln Before I head out on a long trip into the woods, I make sure to thoroughly check out the truck, inspect my equipment, and pack everything short of a SnapOn tool chest (I mean who knows when you'll have to do a trail side engine swap). Yet it wasn't until I'd had a few … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Camping with Your Wife
If you're a reader here, you're probably into spending your weekends camping and hitting the dirt, but if your wife/girlfriend/significant other/girl you're trying to impress doesn't share the same level of enthusiasm, what do you do? So here's DirtRoadTrip's 5 tips for camping with your wife (we're both married now so obviously were experts). 1. Be reasonable in your … [Read more...]
It’s Camping Season! Inaugural 2015 GWNF Outing
2015 has been off to a very good, but hectic start in the Jones household. After getting married back in November (!!!), Becca and I decided early in 2015 that life was a little too calm, and started the multi-month process of finding and buying a house. Something had to give over the past several months, and that was mostly the off-road exploring and camping … [Read more...]
How to Contribute to DirtRoadTrip
Sometimes you read something, and you almost feel compelled to jump out of your chair, wave your fist in the air and shout “Right on, man!” A recent open letter written by Christophe Noel over at Expedition Portal almost did that for us. You can read it straight from Christophe here, but the gist is about how crowd-funding (kickstarter, go fund me, etc.) have become avenues … [Read more...]
Top Ten Overlanding Tips
10.) Overlanding Not Car Camping Get your terminology right! You want your neighbors and co-workers to think you go on adventures, not siting around a fire eating little smokies. 9.) GVWR Is Just A Recommendation Engineers always incorporate a factor of safety into all of their designs, so don't even think twice when you're loading up your fridge, enough water for … [Read more...]
