Southeast Overlanding?

[highboy4x4]

Mr Wilson, what is the general area you will be in during 5 weeks? I have a planned trip of “Go West young man” which would be about 5-6 weeks but my truck repair robbed me so I have to rethink my costs…the pic is just a bunch of POI’s linked together. It’s daunting to plan a 6k miles trip starting in SWFLA.

I will be stopping in Santa Fe for a day , then on to Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Zion National Park, Canyon Lands NP, Moab area, and then to Colorado. Stops in Colorado are Telluride, Ouray, Lake City and then down to Mesa Verde NP and then back to Georgia. Will be back in Georgia about 2 weeks before heading to Overland Expo East.




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Just before you get to Vegas, there is a bucket list item of mine. Grand Canyon West Skywalk.

 

[danwyandt]

I might be able to make a night of the 17 -20 July dates. I am retiring in mid-August, and work is trying to get as much as the can out of me before I leave. Depending on what the group decides, I might meet up at camp for a night just to introduce myself.
Who is planning on going to Overland Expo East? We could plan a meetup there. I plan to head up a couple of days early, spend the first night at the City of Bristol campground (Sugar Hollow Campground). The next day, head to Roanoke to visit the Virginia Museum of Transportation. That night, I will probably be wimpy and stay in a hotel; there is a restaurant that I have been promising to take my wife to for a while. (Montano's). Thursday morning, head to Overland Expo. I have purchased premium camping so I could arrive on Thursday. I originally planned to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway back south until I discovered that all the campgrounds close the same weekend as Overland Expo.

Not sure if I want to go back to Expo East. Went several times, starting in '21, and it keeps getting smaller.
Last year there were very few mfg's at all, mostly outfitters and suppliers. Walked the whole thing in 4 hrs.

 

[grubworm]

one of the few booths remaining, Expo East 2028...