For the past two years I have been interested in the Overland/travel community. Since then, I have wanted to talk about purpose driven travel as well as other topics. This has led me to create a channel based off of my experiences.
Yeah. The fact that you're grounded at camp unless you pack your RTT up first is the main reason I'm still trying to convince myself to buy one. You hit the nail on the head when you said "in an emergency".
We used these a lot in SA, and it's nice when bush camping because of animals, but in almost all other cases they're crap. They're heavy, draggy, obvious, and if you stay in a spot for more than one day, you have to pack it up every time.
oh by the way, which tan is your fj? on camera it looks darker than mine but i thought the quicksand color on the later fjs was the darker one. just a trick of the camera?
hope your channel really takes off mate. this is top notch. cant wait to get out there like this in my fj again. youve got some mad beatiful terrain out there. here in mn it can be difficult to find good trails where i am but every once in a while ya get a good one. want to find the time to head outta stateand discover the rockies next year or whenever my paid time off gets rolled over
Fantastic video. I can clearly see why you love the North Maine Woods so much. I also love your cuts and transitions, very nice editing. And now you have me intrigued by the coffee. Aeropress FTW. (I grind my own at camp too).
Thanks for watching and supporting 👊🏼 I highly recommend the NMW. Guatemalan Coffee from the Exodus Co has been my favorite as of recent (but I could be biased because I work in the brands there)
@@OutboundIntent I finally have my 2012 FJ TTSE ready to overland and will be in Colorado later this month to navigate through the mountains. Always cool watching you do it too!
Light weight, hardshell takes less than 2 minutes to setup and pack up. There light weight to take off if you want to do that. We usually use a 270 awning (also fast to pack up) if ya wanna use the car. Most the time we have dirt bikes to explore with anyway but just incase its fast. As for the campsite, we use a huge market gazebo so the site is still there to come back to anyhow 👍🏾👌🏽
I've watched a few FJ videos, wondering if one of them would finally mention the terrible handling. One after another talks about a million attributes of the vehicle, but never mention what I consider the number one problem, the handling. So thanks for being that one in a thousand RU-vidr that actually has the ability to even recognize the terrible handling of the FJ. I wanted to buy one, but one test drive was enough to convince me that I would never enjoy driving it.
I like this mentality. You are far more likely to need to help get family out of a natural disaster such as a flood, tornado or forest fire. This kind of setup lets you get in render meaningful aid and if necessary get back out. To often you see bugout supporters who can barely climb into their over sized overland rig expecting to live of raw wilderness with nothing but ammo and a fist full of mre's.
Got an 06 Turbo MT myself, looking to slowly put some work into it to make it more and more overland capable. Pretty good just stock for some one day dirt road explorations. Nice ride!
LOVE your baja vids man!! Hey, do you have to purchase that custom extended roof rack for a successful rooftop hard shell tent installation on the baja, or can you install without that custom extended roof rack?
Ground tents suck! RTT's are the ONLY way I can get my wife or kids to go overlanding. Without that on, I'm going solo. Plus the grizzlies are more likely to bite my feet instead of my head lol
Love me Roam Vagabond Lite RTT. Taking my time. It takes 8 minutes to set up completly. 12 minutes to put it away. I was used to survival camping. 2 person ground tent. Sleeping on the ground. With my RTT. Im feel like its a huge step up. I never slept better in the wilderness. Some points are invalid. You said if you have to leave. You cant cause your tent is set up. But if your ground camping the same applies. Its actually quicker with the RTT. Throw everything in trunk and put tent down and go. 12 minutes plus time to throw stuff in trunk. Ground camping takes me forever to take apart and put away poles. Also who leaves all their camping stuff unattended to driving around? My 2 person ground tent cost hundreds of dollars. Im not leaving that there. Plus the sleeping bag. Insulation pad. Gear. Thats over $1000. Who leaves that there to drive around? I feel like these people are just making up excuses to hate on RTT's. If you dont like them. Cool. Dont get one. But dont make up scenarios that dont make sense. I love mine. Only con is that I dont get to use it in the summer due to tropical heat.
I think the point is you can leave the ground tent on the ground and drive away in an emergency. It is not a comparison to take down the tent because you do not do anything with the ground tent in this scenario.
appreciate you playing Devil's Advocate. Still trying to decide between roof tent and stealth sleeper with seat delete. This helped me gain some perspective.
nice. just setup. Looks great. ready to cook dinner...let's pop open a. brew.. oh wait ... where is the beer???forgot to buy the beer. wtf.. let's tear down. and get the beer. sucks
On the contrary, I daily an FJ cruiser and I would have destroyed my gt86 at least 10 times with some of the things I've shrugged off while driving my FJ
Now that Apple is going to be enabling satellite emergency service on all their iPhone 15’s and later, I’m wondering how much longer Garmin InReach (my choice) and Zoleo will be needed?
These are some major first world problem you are discussing here…..if you can deal with the smaller size hard shell tents solve a lot of the issues you mention
Honest question, what makes it more effective? I've been using a zoleo for a couple of years now and it has been great, but I'm always down to improve my gear and/or plug holes in my setup.
Had mine 10 years. Daily drove it for 5 years. Perfect daily driver. I only stopped using it for a daily when I decided to get a used Civic as a daily. I wanted to keep miles off my FJ and only use it when needed (in winter, for the cargo room, or adventures). Saves a lot of gas money also, getting double the mileage. My 2012 FJ has just 85k miles on it.
Mine is 100% stock, other than the tires of course (I put on Duratrac tires). As for handling, it is actually pretty amazing for an offroad truck like this. I've had 6 Jeeps. Two XJ Cherokees (both around year 2000), 3 Wranglers (1 TJ, 2 JK's), and a Commander. The Commander was still a fairly good off roader, but not on the level of the others. I will say the Commander was the smoothest and best for driving. Drove it from Chicago to San Diego and back, and stopped all in between. I also took my FJ all over the country from Chicago to NY and Florida, and more. The FJ beats the Wranglers and Cherokees by far on the road. The only one that was better for on road driving was the Commander.
