2009 Overland Exposition (PICTURES & DETAILS)

[Stan@FourWheel]

Overland Expo 2009 tured out to be very successful !

With 200 Overland Experience participants sampling 25 different classes and learning everything from vehicle recovery to adventure motorcycle riding, and food prep and storage to international border crossings.

Sixty-five vendors showed off their products, and over 500 day pass visitors came on Saturday and Sunday, including at least six global overlanders stopping by in their Unimogs on their way to Alaska.

Check out the Overland Expo YouTube Channel ...

http://www.youtube.com/overlandexpo




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[Stan@FourWheel]

Pictures (part 2)

Pictures (part 2)

 

[Stan@FourWheel]

Pictures (part 3)

Pictures (part 3)

 

[Stan@FourWheel]

Pictures (part 4)

Pictures (part 4)

 

[Stan@FourWheel]

Pictures (part 5)

Pictures (part 5)

 

[Stan@FourWheel]

Pictures (part 6)

Pictures (part 6)

 

[Stan@FourWheel]

Pictures (part 7)

Pictures (part 7)

 

[pods8]

So where are the pictures of the new FWC internals?

 

[kcowyo]

Great shots Stan. Thanks for including pics of so many of the other types of vehicles. Quite the eye candy...

I hope the show was worth the effort of hauling out and setting up so many models. Now what's the scoop on the Tundra and Eagle with the old tan colored soft sides? Are you returning to the tan from the gray?

Hope you enjoyed the show which looks a lot more fun than the typical trade show.

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[ScottBailey]

Diesel Appliances

We have an "Expedition/Overland" Hawk Model just about complete with Diesel appliances !!!


Stan,

Care to elaborate on appliances? Separate tank or vehicle?

Maybe in a new thread...?

 

[craig333]

Stan, any of those vehicles even come close to an FWC in price range (excepting the "tent"s)?

 

[Tomas Tierra]

Thanks for posting Stan, Super cool!My first question was the same as KC's...Dig the tan canvas.

I saw one of those pop up units on the Honda Element at Usal Beach..You gotta be a dwarf to use it..Climb in through the rear sunroof...The guy paid $4300 installed, then found out he was having twins a couple of weeks after he got it..

TT

 

[EdoHart]

Like Craig asked...

Stan, any of those vehicles even come close to an FWC in price range (excepting the "tent"s)?

That's a nice collection of campers, but I think Craig asked the important question.

Haiku:

Sleeping under stars
Comfortable with topper
Bliss is my pop up

 

[Tomas Tierra]

EDO,
Were you raised by wolves!! Color is more important than cost!!

 

[chnlisle]

Zip Offs Are A Must

TT,
Appropriate clothing is required as well.

 

[kcowyo]

Play nice Jay. Those are two very good friends of mine.


They drove that 110 Defender from London to Cape Town a few years back. Currently they are in the planning stages of shipping their truck to Australia next year, for a huge campaign across that country, which will be the 4th continent that Land Rover has transversed. They are the real deal among many, many posers in the overland community...

I have done a couple of trips with Graham and Connie, and recently had dinner with them and was a guest in their home on our trip to CO last month (did I ever finish that trip report? I should go check...). One would have to cross many continents themselves to find two more generous, funny & knowledgable people.

Feel free to parody the numerous other attendees, with their fridges, roof top tents, and $12K trailers who have seldom been out of Arizona. I do it all the time...

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[chnlisle]

KC,
I dont doubt for a moment that they're nice. Especially if they're your friends. Also I was just using their pic as an example of the what the crowd over therir generally wear. I suppose to each his own it just seems to me that a lot of that group are more tied up with the tweaking then the camping. I could be wrong yeah that would be a first.

 

[kcowyo]

...it just seems to me that a lot of that group are more tied up with being gear whores and going nowhere then the camping. I could be wrong yeah that would be a first.


No, you're mostly right. I corrected your too nicely stated truth.

Lots of those folks are fanboys for the real world travelers. So they doll themselves up in the latest (ie -extremely overpriced) kit & garb, throw a tent on their vehicles' roof, plaster the sides of their trucks with decals from the outfitter-du-jour, stock their galley with $200 stainless steel chopsticks and consider themselves 'overlanders', all from the sanctity of their easy chair while pounding away on their Macs.

:Barf:

Personally Jay, I would rather hang out with you in some desert, looking for historical artifacts or just feeling the breeze on a mountain bike ride, than standing around talking shop with a bunch of Tilley hat clad, armchair wanderers. But you'll have to keep your shirt on, ok?

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[chnlisle]

KC we are on the same page.

Some of the rigs there just blow me away with things that can go wrong. I'm sure most are really nice folks but the get so caught up in the stuff. It's a guy thing so maybe i'm lucky to have limited resources. I just want to go camping, ride a bit on the bike and have a nice toddy before bed.

The first time we went to Laguna San Ignacio in my Bronco I struggled to get out there becaus a chubasco had washed awy most of the track. When we got there a mexican family from Santa Rosalia was there in a beat up 30 year old Ford Country Squire. They drove the same road we did. I learned a great deal that day.

 

[pods8]

I just want to go camping,

Me too, I need more vacation...