Member Introductions *NEW MEMBERS INTRODUCE YOURSELF*

[MLynd]

Another newbie to the forum, and somewhat newbie to the overlanding life. When I was younger, before cell phones and always connected was a thing, I'd get together with friends to get out away from the city and go explore the woods then life happened with marriage, kids, mortage, the whole shebang. Kids were graduating and I finally got my Jeep in late 2019 to start building, just in time for the world to shutdown, so I started building. Most parts were sourced second hand because it was faster and easier to buy locally from FB marketplace and CraigsList. I'm also into ham radio, so the Jeep is getting built to support multiple hobbies and activities.

I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions, after I lurk through some of the other sections and see what information I come across.

Mostly sticking to the Columbia River Gorge area, for now, where my wife and I re-located to in late 2022 to let her Mom and Aunt age in place in my wife's childhood home. Pictures from the Bigfoot 200 trail run doing communications support in August 2025, in the Gifford Pinchot NF.

It's a 2008 JKU Sahara manual trans with a 2" suspension lift (not spacers), Smittybilt 9500# winch, Smittybilt side bars and cage rack. There's a spare tire rack and setting up for some Rotopax water and fuel cans along with a space to carry my recovery boards, shovel and Pulaski along with any other 'necessities' that don't fit well inside.

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Welcome !!!

 

[Bengt N]

Another newbie to the forum, and somewhat newbie to the overlanding life. When I was younger, before cell phones and always connected was a thing, I'd get together with friends to get out away from the city and go explore the woods then life happened with marriage, kids, mortage, the whole shebang. Kids were graduating and I finally got my Jeep in late 2019 to start building, just in time for the world to shutdown, so I started building. Most parts were sourced second hand because it was faster and easier to buy locally from FB marketplace and CraigsList. I'm also into ham radio, so the Jeep is getting built to support multiple hobbies and activities.

I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions, after I lurk through some of the other sections and see what information I come across.

Mostly sticking to the Columbia River Gorge area, for now, where my wife and I re-located to in late 2022 to let her Mom and Aunt age in place in my wife's childhood home. Pictures from the Bigfoot 200 trail run doing communications support in August 2025, in the Gifford Pinchot NF.

It's a 2008 JKU Sahara manual trans with a 2" suspension lift (not spacers), Smittybilt 9500# winch, Smittybilt side bars and cage rack. There's a spare tire rack and setting up for some Rotopax water and fuel cans along with a space to carry my recovery boards, shovel and Pulaski along with any other 'necessities' that don't fit well inside.

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Hallo Craig
Welcome to OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N

 

[roots66]

Ok, Hello everyone!
Name: Michele
Age:54
Married: Yes 20+
Children:Yes 5/ 1 boy 4 girls
Grandchildren:Yes 9 but only 2 hang with us daily.
Location: USA Indiana Orange County
Experience in overlanding: Very little but tons in Camping , Hiking and Backpacking Husband has the Offroad experience.
Rigs: We are a jeep family so 93 Yj 2015 Renegade 2020 Gladiator

Hello and welcome to the OB family.

 

[roots66]

Another newbie to the forum, and somewhat newbie to the overlanding life. When I was younger, before cell phones and always connected was a thing, I'd get together with friends to get out away from the city and go explore the woods then life happened with marriage, kids, mortage, the whole shebang. Kids were graduating and I finally got my Jeep in late 2019 to start building, just in time for the world to shutdown, so I started building. Most parts were sourced second hand because it was faster and easier to buy locally from FB marketplace and CraigsList. I'm also into ham radio, so the Jeep is getting built to support multiple hobbies and activities.

I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions, after I lurk through some of the other sections and see what information I come across.

Mostly sticking to the Columbia River Gorge area, for now, where my wife and I re-located to in late 2022 to let her Mom and Aunt age in place in my wife's childhood home. Pictures from the Bigfoot 200 trail run doing communications support in August 2025, in the Gifford Pinchot NF.

It's a 2008 JKU Sahara manual trans with a 2" suspension lift (not spacers), Smittybilt 9500# winch, Smittybilt side bars and cage rack. There's a spare tire rack and setting up for some Rotopax water and fuel cans along with a space to carry my recovery boards, shovel and Pulaski along with any other 'necessities' that don't fit well inside.

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Hello and welcome to the OB family.

 

[El-Dracho]

Another newbie to the forum, and somewhat newbie to the overlanding life. When I was younger, before cell phones and always connected was a thing, I'd get together with friends to get out away from the city and go explore the woods then life happened with marriage, kids, mortage, the whole shebang. Kids were graduating and I finally got my Jeep in late 2019 to start building, just in time for the world to shutdown, so I started building. Most parts were sourced second hand because it was faster and easier to buy locally from FB marketplace and CraigsList. I'm also into ham radio, so the Jeep is getting built to support multiple hobbies and activities.

I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions, after I lurk through some of the other sections and see what information I come across.

Mostly sticking to the Columbia River Gorge area, for now, where my wife and I re-located to in late 2022 to let her Mom and Aunt age in place in my wife's childhood home. Pictures from the Bigfoot 200 trail run doing communications support in August 2025, in the Gifford Pinchot NF.

It's a 2008 JKU Sahara manual trans with a 2" suspension lift (not spacers), Smittybilt 9500# winch, Smittybilt side bars and cage rack. There's a spare tire rack and setting up for some Rotopax water and fuel cans along with a space to carry my recovery boards, shovel and Pulaski along with any other 'necessities' that don't fit well inside.

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HI Craig and welcome to Overland Bound!

Greetings from Europe,
Bjoern

 

[HA1614]

Hey everyone, brand new to over landing and off roading, just driven a few very short trails in national parks out west. Currently located in NY/NJ/PA tristate area. Currently in the market for a new vehicle and looking to get something that will be off-road capable too.

 

[El-Dracho]

Hey everyone, brand new to over landing and off roading, just driven a few very short trails in national parks out west. Currently located in NY/NJ/PA tristate area. Currently in the market for a new vehicle and looking to get something that will be off-road capable too.

Welcome to Overland Bound, Harrison.

Greetings from Europe,
Bjoern

 

[roots66]

Hey everyone, brand new to over landing and off roading, just driven a few very short trails in national parks out west. Currently located in NY/NJ/PA tristate area. Currently in the market for a new vehicle and looking to get something that will be off-road capable too.

Hello and welcome to the OB family.

 

[Bengt N]

Hey everyone, brand new to over landing and off roading, just driven a few very short trails in national parks out west. Currently located in NY/NJ/PA tristate area. Currently in the market for a new vehicle and looking to get something that will be off-road capable too.

Hallo Harrison
Welcome to OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N

 

[MLynd]

Hey everyone, brand new to over landing and off roading, just driven a few very short trails in national parks out west. Currently located in NY/NJ/PA tristate area. Currently in the market for a new vehicle and looking to get something that will be off-road capable too.

WELCOME!!!! I grew up in Burlington county!!! But I currently live in Indiana , Many great vehicles will do what you want It all depends on budget and desire.

 

[Urbanpatriot45]

Another new member here. From North Texas. Been camping all my life but just purchased my first 4wd truck. ‘24 F150 XLT FX4. Looking forward to building it up

 

[roots66]

Another new member here. From North Texas. Been camping all my life but just purchased my first 4wd truck. ‘24 F150 XLT FX4. Looking forward to building it up

Hello Gordon (@Urbanpatriot45 ), welcome to Overland Bound. I am one of your Local Experts for Texas.

There are a few DFW area meetups you can check out here: DFW OB meet and greet & DFW - Meet & Greet & Ft Worth West Meetup

Local information and involvement opportunities can be found here: Southwest Region (AZ/NM/TX/OK)

Looking to meet fellow members? Check out the Meet-Up event page: Overland Bound Meetups

Events in the SW region can be found here: Overland Bound Events SW Region

Want to know what members are planning? You can find out here: Overland Trip Planning

If you have any questions, please just let me know.

 

[El-Dracho]

Another new member here. From North Texas. Been camping all my life but just purchased my first 4wd truck. ‘24 F150 XLT FX4. Looking forward to building it up

Hi Gordon and welcome to Overland Bound!

Greetings from Europe,
Bjoern

 

[ranchero7]

Hello!
I'm Steve from Salida, CO.

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My new 95 Troopy project and old 2007 Ram/XPCamper project. One of them will probably disappear at some point.
I guess I've been overlanding since we travelled and camped dirt roads in northern NM in my 67 Ranchero as a teen, but more seriously for the last 15 years or so. Glad to be here!

 

[roots66]

Hello!
I'm Steve from Salida, CO.

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My new 95 Troopy project and old 2007 Ram/XPCamper project. One of them will probably disappear at some point.
I guess I've been overlanding since we travelled and camped dirt roads in northern NM in my 67 Ranchero as a teen, but more seriously for the last 15 years or so. Glad to be here!

Hello and welcome to the OB family.

 

[Bengt N]

Hello!
I'm Steve from Salida, CO.

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My new 95 Troopy project and old 2007 Ram/XPCamper project. One of them will probably disappear at some point.
I guess I've been overlanding since we travelled and camped dirt roads in northern NM in my 67 Ranchero as a teen, but more seriously for the last 15 years or so. Glad to be here!

Hallo Steve
Welcome to OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N

 

[MrTilby]

Hello!
Jason here from Brazos County, TX. The wife, 3 kids and I will be in our Z71 Suburban, eventually towing an M1102 once we get the build complete, which is what introduced me to this site here. Done my fair share of 4 Wheeling everywhere we shouldn’t go, but a novice to overlanding certainly. We enjoy taking the family camping as remote as we can get so we are now building something that can take us further/deeper and out longer.

 

[Bengt N]

Hello!
Jason here from Brazos County, TX. The wife, 3 kids and I will be in our Z71 Suburban, eventually towing an M1102 once we get the build complete, which is what introduced me to this site here. Done my fair share of 4 Wheeling everywhere we shouldn’t go, but a novice to overlanding certainly. We enjoy taking the family camping as remote as we can get so we are now building something that can take us further/deeper and out longer.
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Hallo Jason
Nice trailer by the way
Welcome to OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N

 

[Grimsock]

Hi all! Ive been a member here for a while but this is actually my first post. I'm Chris from Utah. 'Been truck-camping forever, but never out of the country. The longest off road trip we did was ~10,000 miles, to the east coast and back, avoiding pavement and hotels whenever possible. That was in my 2012 ram 1500. The latest trip was a week long group run with the Harker Outdoors guys.

Latest rig is a 2016 Ram 1500. I spend a lot of time exploring the Wasatch front in Utah. If you happen the see my rig up there, stop by and say hi!

 

[Bengt N]

Hi all! Ive been a member here for a while but this is actually my first post. I'm Chris from Utah. 'Been truck-camping forever, but never out of the country. The longest off road trip we did was ~10,000 miles, to the east coast and back, avoiding pavement and hotels whenever possible. That was in my 2012 ram 1500. The latest trip was a week long group run with the Harker Outdoors guys.

Latest rig is a 2016 Ram 1500. I spend a lot of time exploring the Wasatch front in Utah. If you happen the see my rig up there, stop by and say hi!
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Hallo Chris
It’s never too late
Welcome out in OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N