![]() ![]() Southeast Adventure Vehicle Expo (Formerly Southeast Overland & Off Road Expo) The gathering includes a potluck overland cooking competition and trail runs, and while vendors are present, this is a non-commercial event intended to be more relaxed than other overland expos. ![]() The American Adventurist Desert Rendezvous is a smaller, more relaxed annual overland event. Website: (must be a registered forum member for details) Plus they also provide an opportunity for classes and training on a variety of overlanding skills. Overland expos and similar overland events are a great way to learn about the overlanding community, and get familiar with overland gear while meeting with the manufactures face-to-face. This detailed account of overland groups, overland rallies, and overland expos will help you select, connect, and engage with the overlanding community in whatever way you’re able. There’s no better way to get outfitted, inspired, and educated about overland travel than to get plugged into some of the numerous overland expos, events, groups, and rallies that are out there. If the industry cares to blow off the East Coast crowd, then so be it: Their loss.Arguably one of the best parts of overlanding is the cultural engagement and community that surrounds overland travel. Want to learn more, then look up "7P" and Graham Jackson (another great fellow, and experienced) and company.įinally, "Overland Travel" means many things to many people, and to pigeon hole into one of a few categories of just what it is, how, and where to expedience it doesn't allow for and give the the entire concept, and style of travel any credit for diversity and interest(s). Here's a great You Tube video by Dean Shirley (a very knowledgeable man in the field in his own right) of "Blue Ridge Overland Gear" whom I worked with at the Overland Expo in Asheville in the past, and even took a few of his courses this last Overland Expo East regarding just what is overland travel by some of the many popular people in the field: ![]() Tell me that Dan Grec of the popular series in both You tube, print, and other media "The Road Chose Me" fame is a hard core rock crawler: No, he isn't if you know who he is, what he has accomplished and his philosophy of just that is "overland travel, then he alone pokes holes in the entire definition of just what "Overland Travel" is. Grant you, the National Parks system out west is far more vast, and offers more "overland travel off the beaten path" travel than what is available in the East, but still. I guess people also like to go off road overland and rock crawl on trails far more than travel US state and Federal Forrest Service roads for their "adventure fix".Īnother thing, look at the retail market of products that are out there to customize your particular vehicle of choice, and you will see that they are more for hard and difficult terrain rough travel than for anything else: Likewise the videos one watches on You Tube, as well. East of the Mississippi has as many interesting places to travel to, and explore, it's just that nobody really covers the topics of places to travel to in the eastern part of the US as much as the publicity and number of published stories and You Tube exposure of the places to go to and visit west of the Mississippi West. Click to expand.It appears that the greater perceived interest, and even the ability to overland is greater west of the Mississippi due to the vast expanse of lands and places to go that are currently popular (which is baloney, I.M.H.O.). ![]()
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