Travel

I'd been itching to get back across an ocean since the pandemic, so last winter we decided to finally make it happen and hired a travel agent to plan a trip to the Mediterranean. She suggested Croatia, we provided rough parameters and waited for a plan. After months of no response, we gave a nudge, and I'm pretty sure she just copied and pasted someone else's Game of Thrones themed itinerary and …

The upper midwest is effectively devoid of off-roading and overlanding opportunities. Most people in the scene are settling for camping in parks, getting invites to a handful of events on private land, or making long hauls to get our fix outside of the midwest. We'd been planning a fall overlanding escape to the Ozark National Forest with our cousins, who have a very similar setup as ours (Ford …