Believe it or not, we built our fifth rig for full time life on the road this past year! Outwardly this new build may look very similar to our last truck Roxanne, but it’s wildly different and a massive upgrade for us. Our last Tundra + Four Wheel Camper was in no way at the end of it’s life span, we just found ourselves in the unique position of needing to prepare for traveling full time outside of the US.

In our finale installment of A Long Time Coming, we fly over to the fabled Isle Royale National Park to hike across the island, of which we've been wanting to see for as long as we can remember.

We move yet further east and into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to explore Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore! We hike a 42 miles through Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore. However, we add a little twist by packrafting a few sections of the trail to take full advantage of the beautiful and calm waters of Lake Superior!

We transition from the hot plains of South Dakota up to the US and Canadian Border to explore the extensive waterway of Voyageurs National Park by canoe for a few days of camping on a remote island. As well as a stop in Apostle Islands National Lake Shore to check out the otherworldly rock formations that make the area famous!

In our second installment of A Long Time Coming, we venture in Badlands National Park and cross paths with our first road trip that lead to our current life on the road. Badlands National Park has always had a special place in our hearts, and we are curious if it was everything we remembered it being.

In our second installment of A Long Time Coming, we drop into South Dakota to explore the rugged Black Hills, Wind Cave National Park and Custer State Park. This part of South Dakota often goes overlooked but is home to a dense collection of incredible wild spaces just waiting to be explored.

This is the start of our grand adventure into the Northern Midwest. We make an unexpected stop in Makoshika State Park before making our way into Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

A lot of people are camping these days and I’m sure that is only fuel to the fire of those who’re wanting to get into it. If you have a car, you already have the biggest piece of equipment needed to go camping. So today, we’re going to get into the details of how to go car camping!

We’re so excited about this video/blog post! Before parting ways with our dear friends for the summer we wanted to go on one last trip together so we got to work finding the perfect spot for our adventure. Once we had zeroed in on an area, we left the desert with our friends Karissa & Linhbergh and Peter & Shruthi!

Knowledge will always be your most powerful tool for overlanding, or any type of travel for that matter. Before you head out to start overlanding it’s important to know camping etiquette, Leave No Trace principles, fire regulations, road conditions, if there is likely to be cellphone service, and if there is any specific gear you need to safely travel that area.

After leaving Canwell Glacier is was time to start making our way out of Alaska and towards the lower 48. Sadly, we had a few pressing “hard dates” on our calendar that forced us to compress our timeline to get back to the US. However we made stop in Fairbanks to have some much needed time with our family!

Thanks to the scouting mission, we knew right where we needed to go to get to the pool we’d decided on the day before. As Owen was changing out of his clothes, a tour group saw what we were doing and came over to watch.

After our gracier tour in Whittier, we knew the time had come to make our way off the Kenai Peninsula for the last time. Having spent a month in the area, we’d fully fallen in love with this part of Alaska.

Our episode picks back up in Girdwood, Alaska as I prepare to try to surf the bore tide again. While we were elsewhere on the peninsula I had been studying the tide charts in preparation for our return.

Before we ever left for Alaska my brother Erick and bonus sister Julie invited us out for a unique experience. Erick and Julie hunt to provide themselves with the entirety of their meat needs. Julie was drawn from a lottery based system to hunt for a Mountain Goat in a very specific area in the backcountry of the Kenai Wilderness.

We return from Katmai National Park and head onto the Kenia Peninsula for the first time. Our first stops are Girdwood, Whittier and then onto Homer where we venture out on the water with new friends.

This episode picks back up right after we left Talkeetna, AK. Driving south we climb into the mountains to explore the highly anticipated Hatcher Pass. Even though we didn’t know a ton about the area, we’d heard nothing but great things about it which made us excited to get there and see it for ourselves!

Our episode picks back up at the Wonder Lake campground in Denali National Park and Preserve. It was our last day before catching the bus back to our truck. Though we were sad to be leaving, the weather took a turn for the worse. We hopped on the bus just as it started to rain.