Calling overlanders: let's discuss shelving

[macleanflood]

For me glamping has always meant RVing

And that's the fun part of communication. No matter how you define a term or a word or a phrase someone always has a different perception.

RVing isn't glamping to me because most of my RV experience has been Roadkill style...old ass RVs I actually can afford. Or ripping apart meth palaces in the the woods.

My folks had a 78 VW Van camper conversion with a pop top that we camped in everywhere.

But I can most certainly see how RVing can be considered glamping.

-Mac

 

[OffroadTreks]

Everything cool enough to go mainstream eventually becomes cool to hate which is where we are now.

All of us who joined Expo Portal back in the early aughts have watched the whole trend.

Consumerism killed it.

 

[Mr. Bills]

Overlanding is just glamping with a lot more expensive shit.

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You guys must be new.

The photos from the "Overland Expo" demonstrate that anyone with a credit card can pretend to be an overlander.
Being a gear whore may make one a glamper, but becoming an overlander requires more than money.

This is overlanding:

 

[Mr. Bills]

Everything cool enough to go mainstream eventually becomes cool to hate which is where we are now.

All of us who joined Expo Portal back in the early aughts have watched the whole trend.

Consumerism killed it.

Jonathan Hanson at Expedition Portal continually tries to take credit for the term "overlanding" and has turned it into marketing jargon.

In the scheme of things he is a newbie.

Fuck Jonathan Hanson.

 

[OffroadTreks]

We just need to blame the real problem.

Tacoma owners.

 

[macleanflood]

Pimped out my Hooke Road shelf. Was tired of the dark hold below the shelf and I had some led light strips left over from another project...

-Mac

 

[macleanflood]

And since I'm waiting for primer and drywall mud to dry...wired up a 24v converter. I think it'll keep my cranky cheap ass fridge happier. It'll also run Starlink Mini... that's 12 to 60v but it needs at least 24 to "burn" through clouds and foliage. I used the Hooke Road channel to mount the converter... metal was thick enough to tap for 6-24 machine screws... that'll also assist with heat diassapation. Then I cable tied a double power adapter partially over the top

Now back to adult responsibilities like finishing this shop and stopping the transfer case from hemmoraging fluid or installing this iBooster.

-Mac

 

[GoldenGorilla]

But did overlanding kill glamping?

Overlanding is just glamping with a lot more expensive shit.

All that shit makes me crazy. To each their own, but what kind of top of the food chain human needs to camp on the roof of their car or buy a 500 pound trailer to carry their 20 lb tent? The worst thing camping is being on a slope and the bigger the flat spot you need, the harder it is to find. The second worst thing is finding out you picked the flat spot where all the water gathers in a rain storm, but you'll learn. Whatever separates fools from their money fastest.

Camping where there are scorpions and snakes? Keep your tent zipped up. Camping in a swamp? Get a boat. Camping where there's bears? Put your food in a safe location not inside your tent. Camping around a hungry mountain lion... Good luck, the rooftop tent ain't gonna cut it either.

The shelves everybody are building are cool. We just use some rubbermaid containers we've had for 20+ years to organize our gear when not backpacking. One medium size one for cooking gear, A big one for tent and sleeping bags. A less big one for chairs and lights and misc stuff. Goes in the jeep. Goes in the station wagon too.

The new generation of fridge/coolers are pretty nice since they can generally still function with ice. Maybe I'll get one of those in 20 years when my cooler wears out.

 

[hear]

I don’t want to rain on anybody’s flex, but I asked about a fucking shelf.

 

[lBasket]

I don’t want to rain on anybody’s flex, but I asked about a fucking shelf.

A slippery slope to an overlanding tacoma

 

[OffroadTreks]

I don’t want to rain on anybody’s flex, but I asked about a fucking shelf.

It’s like you said “overlanding” and every gearhead within a 100-mile radius swarmed this thread like bees to a spilled White Monster. Man just wanted a shelf — now he’s getting unsolicited TED Talks on camping. Oh wait....

 

[Rickyd]

A slippery slope to an overlanding tacoma

Shelves are a gateway drug. Pretty soon he'll want 120v outlets,a fridge,a rooftop tent and a 30k$ trailer to pull behind it!

 

[Mr. Bills]

Shelves are a gateway drug. Pretty soon he'll want 120v outlets,a fridge,a rooftop tent and a 30k$ trailer to pull behind it!

^^ This.


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