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 […]
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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
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“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
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“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.
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“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
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“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
“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
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Here’s a little secret I’ve been keeping for a few months. The “Historic Camping & Teardrop Trailer” film is making its silver-screen debut as a featured documentary the 2012 Spokane International Film Festival! Needless to say, I am pretty stoked that the film was accepted out of all the worthy applicants (only 30 films are chosen out
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“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.” – Gandhi In my grade-school years, I remember recess time more than anything else. Sure I have some memories of classrooms, lessons, and teachers, but let’s be honest, the playground was were it was at. It happened that the school I attended for grades
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This is part 2 of a two part blog on technology in camping. If you missed part 1, you can read it here. “Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?” – Shelley Long As a nature enthusiast, I am reluctant to write, in public, the advantages of technology to
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