Hi Everybody (Overland Bounders?)!
I'm Arlen Ward, from Colorado. I drive a 2014 Jeep Wrangler JKU and am often towing a 1967 M416 trailer around too. I've been off-roading since my first vehicle when I was 16 (er.. ahem... 27 years ago) along trails and out in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming. I have been overlanding since it was called car camping. :)
My day job is as a mechanical engineer for a medical device company in Boulder, and spend my non-overlanding time as a Scoutmaster for a Boy Scout Troop.
I get out and about through Colorado and the surrounding states, most of the time travelling with my fiancee Stephanie and sometimes the kids (11 and 14) or the dog (6 or 42 in dog years).
Our most recent trips have been out to Moab, the Badlands of South Dakota, Great Sand Dunes, a really fun trip to Yellowstone, the Tetons and a great loop of Wyoming, and a bunch of smaller trips around Colorado. Our last trip was an end-of-year traverse of the Mojave Road. Good time!
I am now official, being OB#2910. I got two badges, one has been placed on the trailer, and the other will eventually make it on the Jeep, once it isn't covered in mud or snow.
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to learning and sharing with a great community!
Arlen