I always thought overlanding was just a fancy rich persons word for offroad camping. So For what it's worth I thought I would look it up as I'm sure many have. From Wikipedia "Overlanding is self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, but not exclusively, it is accomplished with mechanized off-road capable transport (from bicycles to trucks) where the principal form of lodging is camping, often lasting for extended lengths of time (months to years) and spanning international boundaries". So by definition there is nothing about not having phone service or a Walmart further then 50 miles away to be overlanding. But it does say "spanning international boundaries". So looks like unless you cross over into Canada or Mexico you are never overlanding in the USA.:flamethrwoer2::hiding:
Nice, I like this one and the definition, albeit coming from Wiki, a place where I can be the originator of the definition (am I, maybe:keyboard
, is probably as close to what the content commando's here would agree with because it says "extended lengths of time" and "international borders."
So, if this is an agreed upon definition (which on this forum would only require a 20% vote as majorities are pretty tough to get here), then a "
Crash Course" taught by those who have travelled for extended periods of time across international borders, presented to moto-journalist who have only spent time off road when Starbucks is getting their parking lot re-paved would be a fairly solid use of the terms, CRASH COURSE IN OVERLANDING!:cheer2::drum::flipoff:
The term 4 wheeling has been around for a long time, and for some would fit the bill better, but I've always thought of 4wheeling as driving on terrain that required 4 wheel drive, where as a lot of overlanding routes could be handled in 2 wheel drive for extended parts of the trip, so 4 wheeling doesn't seem quite right, at least not for the 4wheeling I've done throughout my life.
Trail riding may be a good term as well, though for me it's not great as I do a ton of cycling (all types, pedal and motor driven) and trail riding to me refers to that. Doesn't make me right and someone else wrong, it just makes our use of the words different.
A lot of dudes I ride with call great rides epic, some call them awesome, spectacular, Fu#king Sweet, etc etc etc. Bottom line is the vernacular of the day changes very quickly nowadays and being upset over the use of one descriptive over another is pretty lame (or dumb, stupid, pathetic, cheesey, weak, uncool, not-cool, or whatever is acceptable today:help
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