Merry Christmas From OT

About the Photo: This is our first customer ordered 58 Heald Trailer in the Vibrant Yellow color.  During this build, we dubbed this trailer “The Honey Bee” for two reasons.  Obviously a black and yellow trailer looks like a honey bee.  The second reason is that the customers are involved in the honey and bee […]

Adventure Canada: The Gravel Strip & Beauty

Mother & Daughter Soak in the View

This is the 2nd post on the Adventure Canada Series. If you haven’t read the other parts of the blog series yet, you can read them here: Adventure Canada: Failure to Launch Adventure Canada: The Gravel Strip & Beauty Adventure Canada: How to Go Crazy “I grew up on the edge of a national park […]

Adventure Canada: Failure to Launch

Camping with Family is the best

This is the 1st post on the Adventure Canada Series. If you haven’t read the other parts of the blog series yet, you can read them here: Adventure Canada: Failure to Launch Adventure Canada: The Gravel Strip & Beauty Adventure Canada: How to Go Insane “You never really learn to swear until you learn to […]

Googly Eyes & Clones

  “Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny.” – Lucy Liu The Overland Trailer crew are hard a work building some new vintage-looking 58 Heald teardrop trailers. Soon new campers can have new adventures! As we’ve worked in the Overland shop, I dug through some inherited tools and found a great set of vintage […]

99% Camping Fun 1% Flummoxed

Look at this full size. It's totally worth it!

“Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.” – Jackie Chan Anything that starts with an embarrassing photo of horrified campers is bound to make for a good story.  The photo above holds many surprises besides the panic stricken aspects of those having their picture shot.  From the looks of things you’d think they were actually being shot. […]

Debra’s Vintage Gets Published

The dog likes the Benroy

    “Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart.”— Mencius If you have seen the “Historic Camping & Teardrop Trailers” educational film, you are familiar with the story of Debra Kellerman.  Her story of purchasing three vintage trailers and restoring them with little previous knowledge of tools is one of my […]

Camping With Your Mother

HDR Glacier National Park (Earth Day 2012) by Mark Janke

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”  – William Shakespeare Today is earth day!  If you’re not out camping and seeing scenes like the one I enjoyed (above), at least have an adventure and go outside for a […]

Simply Growing!

Side Profile (custom doors shown)

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Ben Franklin If you have visited The OverlandTrailer.com website recently, you’ve probably noticed some changes in the website function.  This is because overlandtrailer.com has a new division under the license Overland Trailer, LLC.  A friend, Nathan, and I are […]

Cast Iron French Cooking

Cooling. Wait to cut until cool

 “In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.” – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) About 10 years ago was the last time I ate food in France.  As much as people make a big deal out of French cooking & techniques, I thought I’d […]

Cast Iron Pumpkin Breakfast

Drippy, sticky, and sweet

“He unwrapped it gently, revealing a carefully wrapped scone” – Quoted from “Manly Hero” by Adrastus Rood One of my favorite camping foods is the scone.  Maybe it is because I get to use fun cooking implements.  Maybe it is because the scone takes a lot of work and love to be successful.  Since we’re currently […]