Let's start an overland fire.

I'm nearly 50 now, but when I was younger and in Arizona, the thing to do every weekend for us was to throw the camping gear into whatever rig I had at the time and head out for a night or two. A truck, a cooler, a tent.

Now...it's called OVERLANDING. This word is everywhere! In the magazines, websites, etc..

It's just a money grab by vendors, in my opinion. Recovery boards?? Come on guys. This is nothing new. The business of it is. Don't be a sucker.

Pile on

 

I always thought Overlanding was was walking over land, because I did some thing stupid in my truck?

That or over shooting the landing site while jumping my truck.
Lol....ok. Ok, I won’t bring that back up this soon.

 

I agree with you but I think you are thinking of Weekend Warriors.

Overlanding by definition is more complicated

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences

 

You could just ignore marketing trends. It would improve your sanity.

 

Makes me want to get

In that case there would be alot less lifted Tacomas but yeah, you are right about that.

 

I thought an overland fire was parking on tall grass after the heat shield rusted off and fell off your cat.

 

Lol. Hope I didnt come off as antagonistic. The overland thing is a little silly, but sometimes i think the backlash is even sillier. The jokes do come easy, though.

 

Just wait until over-landing becomes available on "the cloud".

 

Cloudlanding?
Overclouding?

 

Recovery boards have saved my ass a few times but I don’t understand this trend to drive around with an entire household kitchen in your vehicle

 

Pretty sure it’s now called instagramerlanding or twitterlanding

 

Tacoma Overlanding Simulator! Free play! for only $10 you can get 10,000 gold coins to unlock a wheel upgrade!

 

There always has to be a next mass pop culture thing i.e. Bikes, Muscle car, Comics, Prepping.... Have to keep the mass consumer economy going, lol.

I have been apart of some of the Expo group for over a 10yrs and like you been camping for decades. It has made for some cool products to come to the market though. I remember my first recover boards were made from wood that I copied from a 4x4 magazine article in the 90's

 

I'm calling a mini truck fad again.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=afpnkCOsMFU

 

Microtransactions FTW!
Seriously though you see it in all aspects of life now with internet shopping, etc. My wife used to make do with a blender and a toaster.

 

Wasn't shit like this taught in drivers ed? Maybe he just burned his jeep for the views.

Edit: I want to say "kids these days" but this guy is too old. If I had a kid, I'd pop their valve core at work. And if they can't figure out how to change a tire.... sucks to suck I guess. But also it would be a failure on my part as a parent. So I guess I don't have anything to worry about in this area.

 

My niece got a robot/auto tea maker a few years back... it was then I knew the planet was doomed.... when boiling water on the stove and putting a tea bag in the hot water has become to much of a burden on life.

 

Good stuff! Thank you all for chiming in. I can see how recovery boards could save your butt in certain situations, but all I see is bright orange plastic ones riding around town on trucks that won't need them.