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Disaster Response↗Coming Home to the Storm
Two hurricanes hit Clearwater while we were away. We came home to a war zone, and I went straight into disaster response,…
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4×4↗Four Days on the Florida Adventure Trail with My Daughter
Location: Florida Adventure Trail, Osceola National Forest to Ocala National Forest, Florida For years, every state in the South had an adventure…
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4×4↗One Night in Ocala National Forest: Camp Cooking, Car Camping and Lake Dorr
Location: Ocala National Forest, near Lake Dorr, Florida I love Ocala National Forest. It’s close, it’s huge, and every time I go…
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Camping↗Packing a Motorcycle for a 30-Day Adventure Ride
Packing List: 30 Days and 4,500 Miles on a Honda XR650L After our Trans America Trail series, a lot of you asked…
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Adventure↗The Day a School Bus Almost Ended It
Ten years ago today marks the day I was hit by a school bus on my motorcycle. And while I still suffer…
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Dirt Biking↗My Kawasaki KLR 650 Adventure Bike Build for the Trans America Trail
Build: 2017 Kawasaki KLR 650 for the Trans America Trail I built my 2017 Kawasaki KLR 650 from scratch for one job:…
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Cities and Countries↗China – October 2018
Airline: China SouthernAirplane: Airbus A380Seating: Economy23 Nov 2018The flight from Los Angeles to Guangzhou is 14 hours 30 minutes…The moment I sit…
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Camping↗Campsite Cooking: Chicken Tagine with the Overland Crew
Campsite Cooking 02: Chicken Tagine Episode two of my campsite cooking show got a serious upgrade, because I wasn’t the one cooking.…
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Disaster Response↗Hurricane Dorian – 2019
Editor’s update · October 2026 The official count from The Bahamas’ National Emergency Management Agency settled at 74 confirmed deaths, and hundreds…
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Camping↗Campsite Cooking: Easy Carne Asada on the Dunedin Causeway
Location: Dunedin Causeway, Dunedin, Florida For years my camping menu was noodles and hot dogs. Every trip. I got tired of eating…
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4×4↗Rally in the Ozarks
Location: Ozark National Forest, Arkansas Our journey started in Safety Harbor, Florida. Jade, Gwendolyn and I drove up to a little town…
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4×4↗The Rally Point: Overlanding Hopkins Prairie in Ocala
Location: Hopkins Prairie, Ocala National Forest, Florida Every time I go to Ocala National Forest I see something new, something that’s beautiful…
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4×4↗4×4 and Camping in Ocala National Forest: Plan B at Lone Oak
Location: Lone Oak Campsite, Ocala National Forest, Florida Sometimes the plan falls apart in the first hour and the backup turns out…
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Trans America Trail↗Trans America Trail 04 – Virginia to North Carolina
Editor’s update · October 2026 Hurricane Helene (September 2024) closed parts of this route. As of October 2026, the Hurricane Creek road…
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Trans America Trail↗Trans America Trail 03 – How we navigated the TAT
Editor’s update · October 2026 Sam Correro retired in July 2025 and passed away on March 7, 2026. The adventure community lost…
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Camping↗TransAmerica Trail – 02 – Shakedown #2
This shakedown was extremely valuable in the second phase (2nd for me) of gear testing. Particularly for Greg and I who are…
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Camping↗Trans America Trail – 01 – Shakedown #1
OUR FIRST SHAKEDOWN:Was a one night stay at a new campsite called Colt Creek State Park located at: Location of this Adventure28.302278, -82.053639Open…
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Trans America Trail↗TransAmerica Trail – Costs & Fees
I started this adventure with NO experience, NO Motorcyle and NO gear.I figured it would probably be valuable to other amateurs and…
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Cities and Countries↗Belize
BelizeMy 8 month pregnant wife and I flew in to Belize City on a warm afternoon the 23rd of December for our…
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4×4↗Peter’s Point Beachfront Park
Editor’s update · October 2026 Heads up: you can’t camp or drive this beach as a visitor anymore When I wrote this…
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Scenery↗Hiking Dream Rock Silo and Comers Rock Overlook
Location: Dream Rock Silo and Comers Rock, Grayson County, Virginia Five months after our March trip I was back at Dream Rock…
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Camping↗Ocala National Forest
There are TONS of places to go camping. You can stick to the designated camp grounds, or you can camp off the…
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Scenery↗Biking the Virginia Creeper Trail, Whitetop to Damascus
Trail update · October 2026Hurricane Helene wrecked the upper half of the Creeper Trail in September 2024. The Whitetop-to-Damascus section I ride…
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4×4↗Exploring the Appalachian Mountains at Dream Rock Silo
Location: Dream Rock Silo, Independence, Virginia Grayson County, Virginia is my favorite corner of the whole country, and Dream Rock Silo is…
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Dirt Biking↗Dirt Biking the Croom Motorcycle Area
Location: Croom Motorcycle Area, Withlacoochee State Forest, Florida If you live anywhere near Tampa and you own a dirt bike, sooner or…
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Cities and Countries↗Slovakia
Country: Slovakia Location: Košice Location of this Adventure48.720992, 21.257729Open in Google Maps → Danan ColemanSelf Proclaimed Adventurer(pronounced Koh-shitz-uh)So this was a very interesting…
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Cities and Countries↗London
Country: England Location: London Location of this Adventure51.505332, -0.079104Open in Google Maps → I was very excited to hop over the pond and go to…
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Camping↗Grand Canyon
Editor’s update · October 2026 As of October 2026 the South Rim is under Stage 4 water restrictions after an August flash…
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Cities and Countries↗Aruba
Editor’s update · October 2026 Since 2020, motorbikes, ATVs and UTVs have been banned from Arikok National Park and Aruba’s other protected…
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