Mega combo meal deal edition.
Kickback, relax, grab a drink. We could be here a while...
Monthly Delight:
Well, strictly speaking it should be Bi-Monthly delight, sounds kinky...
He’s probably busy having an exceedingly good time in the Paj and wolfing down Warthog, but MtDrift left us with a cherry of a trip report before departing for the wilds of Botswana. Anyway, I’m a sucker for solo travel and long, lavish, meandering tales...
Trip Reports:
Trip machines Tim/Kelsey, kicked things off with an explore of New Mexico. Breaking new ground for themselves and us in the process, plus WILDlife!
Hammerhead took the family out for some great parenting, amazing rock formation Utah style. While giving the Prado a workout at the same time.
While we regularly encourage people to just get out and explore here on O&E, there are always dangers with remote area travel. Anyway, this is a great post by wanderwebster if you haven’t read it, I urge you to do that.
Benjrblant combines maybe two of the greatest 4x4's in one post, 200 Series Land Cruiser and Range Rover Classic!
Tyler packed his bike and went exploring.
Then we move onto the big one... Sky used every available load carrying surface on the Jeep and took his family on a 3700 mile (almost 6000km!) trip through various US states. Some great writing made this a real journey to read too. Good work fella!
This one is ongoing into August.
Jarod took his girl out for some camping and road tripping experience. As somewhat more, ahem, senior to the young chap, this reminded my of my first car camping trips through Cornwall in the UK with N (she’s still here, 20+ years later, so must have got something right). He’s doing it in some style with the Lexus Prado, we had something more, errr, British...
Anyway, I digress. I liked these posts for the REAL snapshot into another country’s culture, that you don’t really get except places like this.
In some sort of beautiful circle of harmonious symmetry, we end up back at T&K kicking off on yet another adventure, although this time tracing more well known routes. Dubious name aside, ha ha! Enjoy.
So, there we have it. Maybe our least experienced crew and our our most experienced crew. That’s the beauty of this place in my opinion. If you’ve done something cool, get it out there and share with like minded fellows. Everyone starts somewhere, and perhaps your most formative experiences are the early ones.
Dirt Sunrise:
No, it’s not a cocktail (but it probably should be... Tequila sunrise vs dirty Martini? Scratch that, sounds disgusting...). After some debate, Kelsey and Tim rebranded for their (sort-of) new push into video. Sharing their initial efforts here so we could tear them to shreds offer some constructive criticism.
Cool Stuff:
Buckle up, we’re going for a ride.
Father Ted reports in from India, as you do...
Ronny is good for his word, but we kind of knew that anyway.
Silent’s Mum’s D4 tales of woe.
I did stuff.
Afrika.
Boatin’
Racin’
Old friends dropped by.
Discussions:
The world is an unsettled place, plenty to chat about. More reasons to get away from it all and look up to the stars, and get some perspective on everything. Deep!
Holy Moly, that’s a lot! Great work everyone. Certainly kept me going while prepping rather than actually doing.
From the archives:
This trip had everything, ups, downs, teamwork, challenging terrain. If you’ve never read it, enjoy. Even if you have, it is worth a revisit.
I’m going to be away late August to mid-late Sept. If anyone wants to write up ‘Best Of’ August just hit me up in the comments/contact me via other means, most of you have them, of not just ask. If you have something you want to share or get involved, let us know!
Cheers.
