Member Introductions *NEW MEMBERS INTRODUCE YOURSELF*

[El-Dracho]

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!

Hi Steve,

Welcome to Overland Bound!

Greetings from Europe,
Bjoern

 

[El-Dracho]

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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Hi Jason,

Welcome to Overland Bound!

That trailer looks solid. Assume it is a good basis for an overlanding setup.

Greetings from Europe,
Bjoern

 

[El-Dracho]

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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Hi Chris ,

Welcome and thank you for your introduction.

Nice setup. Enjoy travelling.

Greetings from Europe,
Bjoern

 

[Bengt N]

Looks like I get to be first to introduce myself!

Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Rig: 1996 Jeep XJ Cherokee
Experience: Mediocre.. lol :) Just an Overland nerd!

Hallo Michael
Welcome to OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N

 

[MLynd]

Welcome everyone

 

[Ninjaneer]

Location: West By God Virginia!

Rig: 2020 Toyota Tundra Limited TRD (not the Pro), simple leveling kit and 33” BFG AT KO2s (for now )

Experience: As novice as they come! Ran my first real trail 2 days ago in Shenandoah National Forest. It’s a Jeep Badge of Honor trail but honestly don’t know why, onX rated it 3/10. Reminded me of a pretty standard dirt back road where I’m from (rig picture is from the easiest section). Otherwise spent a lot of time on ATVs and SxSs.

 

[Bengt N]

Location: West By God Virginia!

Rig: 2020 Toyota Tundra Limited TRD (not the Pro), simple leveling kit and 33” BFG AT KO2s (for now )

Experience: As novice as they come! Ran my first real trail 2 days ago in Shenandoah National Forest. It’s a Jeep Badge of Honor trail but honestly don’t know why, onX rated it 3/10. Reminded me of a pretty standard dirt back road where I’m from (rig picture is from the easiest section). Otherwise spent a lot of time on ATVs and SxSs.

Hallo Matt
Welcome to OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N

 

[El-Dracho]

Location: West By God Virginia!

Rig: 2020 Toyota Tundra Limited TRD (not the Pro), simple leveling kit and 33” BFG AT KO2s (for now )

Experience: As novice as they come! Ran my first real trail 2 days ago in Shenandoah National Forest. It’s a Jeep Badge of Honor trail but honestly don’t know why, onX rated it 3/10. Reminded me of a pretty standard dirt back road where I’m from (rig picture is from the easiest section). Otherwise spent a lot of time on ATVs and SxSs.

Hi Matt,

Welcome here at Overland Bound!

Greetings from Europe
Bjoern

 

[roots66]

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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Hello and welcome to the OB family.

 

[roots66]

Location: West By God Virginia!

Rig: 2020 Toyota Tundra Limited TRD (not the Pro), simple leveling kit and 33” BFG AT KO2s (for now )

Experience: As novice as they come! Ran my first real trail 2 days ago in Shenandoah National Forest. It’s a Jeep Badge of Honor trail but honestly don’t know why, onX rated it 3/10. Reminded me of a pretty standard dirt back road where I’m from (rig picture is from the easiest section). Otherwise spent a lot of time on ATVs and SxSs.

Hello and welcome to the OB family.

 

[roots66]

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

Not much out your way as far as meetups go. But, you could always start one.

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.

 

[Beachcomber]

Grüezi & Hi
I bought a new Dacia Duster and starting now to plan my journey from Switzerland to India.
For the last 50 years I spend my time travelling in all directions, on motorbikes, with a Pickup & Expedition Cabin, Camping cars (this year with a blue Romahome from South UK up to Shetland and back) & Campervans, and as a Bagpacker and now with a Duster.

 

[El-Dracho]

Grüezi & Hi
I bought a new Dacia Duster and starting now to plan my journey from Switzerland to India.
For the last 50 years I spend my time travelling in all directions, on motorbikes, with a Pickup & Expedition Cabin, Camping cars (this year with a blue Romahome from South UK up to Shetland and back) & Campervans, and as a Bagpacker and now with a Duster.

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Hi and welcome to Overland Bound!

I am one of the OB Ambassadors in Europe. We also have several Local Experts which are experienced overlanders across the globe as good sources of information. Here in MidEurope @XC70_OVERLANDER is a great source of information and he also organizes lots of fantastic meetups for the community. Thore has also a lot of experience with overlanding in four-wheel drive station wagons like yours. Please do not hesitate to contact him or me for questions regarding Overland Bound, and the App or information regarding overlanding.

Local information for any of the OB regions can also be found in the Overland Bound by region forum. Each region has its own sub-forum. Switzerland, for example, belong to the region MidEurope. So, this link leads to the MidEurope subforum. Feel free to introduce yourself to your local area here. Regarding your trip you might also find useful information in the MidEurope forum.

Please take a look at the Rally Points for planned events. There you can filter by region. There are plenty of meetups planned for 2025 and 2026 for Europe already and more to come.

We also do a virtual campfire once a month, there are always members from many regions of Europe. I will scheudle the next one soon. This is a relaxed online talk about overlanding, trip plans, gear, everyday life and more with like-minded people. Watch out for the next date in the Rally Points and ust join us next time if you like.

If you have any other questions just ask, please. Always happy to help.

Safe travels,

Bjoern

 

[Beachcomber]

Hi and welcome to Overland Bound!

I am one of the OB Ambassadors in Europe. We also have several Local Experts which are experienced overlanders across the globe as good sources of information. Here in MidEurope @XC70_OVERLANDER is a great source of information and he also organizes lots of fantastic meetups for the community. Thore has also a lot of experience with overlanding in four-wheel drive station wagons like yours. Please do not hesitate to contact him or me for questions regarding Overland Bound, and the App or information regarding overlanding.

Local information for any of the OB regions can also be found in the Overland Bound by region forum. Each region has its own sub-forum. Switzerland, for example, belong to the region MidEurope. So, this link leads to the MidEurope subforum. Feel free to introduce yourself to your local area here. Regarding your trip you might also find useful information in the MidEurope forum.

Please take a look at the Rally Points for planned events. There you can filter by region. There are plenty of meetups planned for 2025 and 2026 for Europe already and more to come.

We also do a virtual campfire once a month, there are always members from many regions of Europe. I will scheudle the next one soon. This is a relaxed online talk about overlanding, trip plans, gear, everyday life and more with like-minded people. Watch out for the next date in the Rally Points and ust join us next time if you like.

If you have any other questions just ask, please. Always happy to help.

Safe travels,

Bjoern

Thank you so much Bjoern, it is great that you give me all that informations and links. I will try to find my way through it, as it isn't easy for me at the moment to not getting lost in the forum. It all starts with a dream, with an idea not knowing if I can do it, as the political situation is not the best. It can change anytime, so I will first start to think about, how I have to prepair my Duster for such a trip. Then the route and what kind of Visas I need and so on. Your infos are very helpful, kind regards Beachcomber (excuse when my English isn't perfect, I do my best)

 

[El-Dracho]

okay, I tried realy hard to follow your links. But if I click on my laptop, let's say on virtual campfire, only the link to install the app is popping up. Well so I installed the app, loged in, but there I didn't found my way to any link you mention. Only the map and purchase membership. When I came back to the app nothing was going on anymore, zero action only a picture "Guest". Deinstalling and later again download, same again. So my friend, what shell I do?

So, Rally Points and OB Map are App only currently due to efforts to stabilize the platform. You will find the meetups, we call them Rally Points, at the tab with the calendar symbol and there you can filter by regions. The map you will find by tapping on the map symbol.

In case you experience technical issues with the app I think its best to email support@overlandbound.com so that it gets taken care of.

 

[Bengt N]

Grüezi & Hi
I bought a new Dacia Duster and starting now to plan my journey from Switzerland to India.
For the last 50 years I spend my time travelling in all directions, on motorbikes, with a Pickup & Expedition Cabin, Camping cars (this year with a blue Romahome from South UK up to Shetland and back) & Campervans, and as a Bagpacker and now with a Duster.

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Hallo sealover
Welcome to OBO
Greetings from Sweden
WBR
Bengt N

 

[roots66]

Grüezi & Hi
I bought a new Dacia Duster and starting now to plan my journey from Switzerland to India.
For the last 50 years I spend my time travelling in all directions, on motorbikes, with a Pickup & Expedition Cabin, Camping cars (this year with a blue Romahome from South UK up to Shetland and back) & Campervans, and as a Bagpacker and now with a Duster.

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Hello and welcome to the OB family.

 

[Shahn]

Location- Topeka Ks
2016 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro
New to overlanding, but been camping for many years.

Greetings Jeremy, welcome to Overland Bound!

 

[Shahn]

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

Greetings Michele, welcome to Overland Bound!

 

[Shahn]

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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Greetings Craig, welcome to Overland Bound!