In February long weekend, I headed up a popular local campsite to meet with Victor from Gear Into Adventure. A three-day camping trip was planning for some cross-cultural exchange over campfire storytime. He was already at the campsite that early Friday afternoon. We communicated through his Garmin InReach satelite device to confirm location. When I…
After our Silo Art Trail explore around the Mallee district, we set our destination to Big Desert – Wyperfeld National Park – Murray Sunset National Park. 3 days of camping and 4 wheel driving in the desert! We got our fly net on, GPS loaded, and meet the rest of the group on day 1…
Introducing my new roof set up! The all-new Rhino-Rack Pioneer Platform with Backbone system. Just a little comparison before we get started on the new one. This was the tray that came with the previous owner. Safe to say it’s probably been on there for over a decade. It’s served me well for strapping things…
A relaxing snowy 4WD adventure to a local lake shelter. Making tacos with Toyota Tacoma and Landcruiser in the background. Laughter by the campfire. Sounds like an ideal winter Sunday. Sensing a trend of the vehicle my friends are switching into nowadays. When David messaged me the other day about his newly acquired 4WD, I…
Have you experienced winter blues/winter depression? It’s more common in our society than you’d think. When our body enters power reserve mode in the short and cold winter days, a fundamental shortage of certain brain chemicals starts to mess with us.Snowboarding and offroading are the two things that help me cope with Seasonal Affected Disorder.…
Cold winter camp was not my favourite until I completed my current setup to keep myself warm on those nights. How this trip came to be was pretty random. The other day as I came out of my gym to my car, a guy with a black F150 came to me and asked about 4WD…
My latest install goes to this Kenwood TM-V71A VHF/UHF dual-band ham radio for my Landcruiser. Long story short, I brought my 100 series Landcruier back to Canada after my year of touring around Australia. It had an Australian CB radio which was pre-tuned to its 40 (or maybe 80?) UHF channels. In Canada, however, we…
