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Overlanding Gear and Build

Overlanding Gear and Build

It’s always tempting to throw flashy gear and modifications at your overlanding vehicle. If you aren’t careful, then you’ll end up over payload, over budget, and you may not even have resources left to actually enjoy your journey!

We have learned what works and what gear is essential. This is the most popular category on our blog, where you can learn about our overlanding gear and build based on our experience.

Get started with our article, Ignore the Hype: What Do You Really Need to Go Overlanding?

If you’re planning to build out a Jeep Wrangler for overlanding, then don’t start before reading 3 Obstacles You Must Overcome to Optimize Your Jeep Overlanding Build. Protip: owners of other makes and models can also benefit from this advice.

When you have the basics covered and are ready to bury yourself in the details, we have the Overland Jeep Build Sheet and Master Overlanding Packing List for our Jeep Wrangler, which we built and used specifically for North American travel. We lived out of our Wrangler full-time for about six months total as a family of three.

You can also familiarize yourself with our Jeep Gladiator Overland Build, which we completed in 2021 before leaving to drive around the world. This vehicle was built for full-time, global overland travel for a period of 10-15 years. We also share transparently about how much it cost to build our Gladiator.

Video Tour for Family Overlanding Jeep

Video Tour of Our Overlanding Rig Featured on Story Chasing

Not too many people choose to overland long-term in a Jeep Wrangler. The most well-known is our friend Dan Grec of The Road Chose Me, who traversed both the Pan-American

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March 14, 2020 1 Comment
Bog Out Vehicle Recovery in Reverse

Bog Out Vehicle Recovery Kit Turns Wheels Into Winches

Bog Out Vehicle Recovery Kit allows recovery in reverse (Credit: Bog Out) What if you could “winch” yourself out without a winch? That is exactly what the team behind Bog

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February 16, 2020 3 Comments
Master Overlanding Packing List

Master Overlanding Packing List

This is the list I wish I’d had when I first got into overlanding. One of the most common questions we’re asked at all of our events is, “What exactly

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November 24, 2019 9 Comments
Extra Fuel Storage Tank for Overlanding

Why We Chose Titan Fuel Tanks Over Rotopax for Extra Fuel Storage

We had just crossed the border into Mexico, and the very next day we got word of a major fuel shortage country-wide. We didn’t have immediate access to the news,

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August 12, 2019 12 Comments
Best Camping Chairs for Overlanding

The Best Camping Chairs and Compact Tables for Overlanding

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time overlanding will tell you that a good life is spent outdoors and traveling. When you are traveling the globe in a vehicle,

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July 23, 2019 No Comments
Best Roof Top Tent for Families

iKamper Skycamp Review: A Family-friendly Roof Top Tent

There’s an enormous number of reasons the iKamper Skycamp was the most successful tent in Kickstarter history, raising over 2.3 million dollars. From the start, it should be noted I

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May 15, 2019 41 Comments
Genesis Basecamp stove overlanding and backcountry stove

Independent Review of the Genesis Basecamp Stove by JetBoil

Genesis Basecamp–sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, right? When it’s folded up, this camping stove actually reminds me of a droid from a Star Wars film. This is

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October 23, 2018 No Comments
overlanding jeep build

Neverending Story: Our Overlanding Jeep Build

Though we started out with a capable rock crawling build, we decided on an overlanding Jeep build as our goals morphed. Listed in this article is every major upgrade, modification,

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October 18, 2018 12 Comments
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