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Episode: 4037
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Title: HPR4037: What is Overlanding?
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4037/hpr4037.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 18:53:45
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This is Hacker Public Radio, episode 4,037 for Tuesday, the 23rd of January 2024.
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Today's show is entitled, What is Overlanding?
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It is hosted by Covemo, and is about 8 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, we talk to George of Southwest Idaho
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overlanding about his obsession with overlanding.
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Oh, this is Covemo for Hacker Public Radio.
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And today I have the pleasure of being with George from Southwest Idaho Overlanding.
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He's got a YouTube channel linked below.
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I've had some interest in overlanding for quite a few years,
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and I see that there's a lot of different ideas of what overlanding is.
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So I've got George here.
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I'm going to ask him, George, in your opinion, what is overlanding?
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Well, overlanding to me is basically what would have been called in the olden days, car camping.
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So basically, you're going from point A to point B, and you're basically driving overland.
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Obviously, if you're on waterways, you'd be going over the ocean,
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but if you're driving across the land, then you're overlanding.
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But yeah, it's point A to point B using a vehicle in general.
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Some people can use bicycles, or I've even heard of overlanding with scooters.
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And then, of course, you've got people that have the full blown rigs,
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but that's all unnecessary equipment for somebody that wants to start out with overlanding.
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So as I hear you out there, excluding bicycles and motorcycles,
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what I've got gathered from being on the internet is that you need at least a $60,000 vehicle
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to start off overlanding this.
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Yeah, am I right about that?
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No, I mean, there's a lot of people out there that like to buy their gear,
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but in general, if you're a camper, really, and I have a car,
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you can overland with just a camp gear in a car,
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because basically, you're just traveling from point A to point B.
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Basically, what I like to say is that if you're going camping, you get in your car,
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you take a camp gear, you drive somewhere else, and then you set up and you camp for a day or two,
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and then you get loader playing up and come back home.
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Overlanding is more, you put your camp gear in your car, you drive to point A or point B,
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and then you unload, camp overnight, and you load it back up in the morning,
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and you go to somewhere else.
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That's basically what you're doing.
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You're going to place to place usually when you're overlanding.
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And it could be anything, you know, it's just a place that you might have to stop
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because it's getting late, or it could be a planned location that you want to camp at.
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And then, you know, just keep moving.
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You know, to me, camping in one spot gets kind of boring after a while.
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You know, some people like to fish, I like to overland.
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Alright, several times there, you mentioned your camp equipment.
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So I'm assuming that means that you've got to have a rooftop tent,
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you've got to have a scottle, you've got to have a ginormous, cooler attach to a solar panel
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so that you could be out there for that length of time.
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Am I understanding that correctly?
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No.
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I mean, some people might want you to think that, because they want to sell you gear,
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but in a lot of actuality, if you just have a sleeping bag, and, you know,
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really don't even need anything to cook.
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If you take food that you don't need to cook, I mean,
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basically, overlanding is going from point A to point B,
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and maybe point C and D and E, just using your vehicle,
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whatever vehicle that might be, whether it's motorized vehicle or
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moped, or whatever, there's a bunch of different takes on overlanding, for sure.
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So now, because you're going to be out in the wilderness, away from everybody,
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I assume surviving on your own wits, you probably want to have the newest state
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of the art equipment with you.
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What kind of equipment do you carry with you when you go out on your overland trips?
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Well, I mean, I'm not the bare bones person by any means, not say that you can't,
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but I'm not spending a lot of money on a vehicle and my camp gear.
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I'm basically using an old Coleman stove that was built in early 1960s.
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I'm using just a basic sleeping bag that, I mean, was under a hundred bucks.
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I built myself a trailer, which might be a little extravagant for somebody else,
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but for me, it's perfect.
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And see, and the vehicle, I mean, really, you could, like I said, vehicles
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is the preference of whoever wants to do the overlanding.
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You don't have to have the high dollar vehicle to get you from point A to point B.
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The main thing is that you know that it's dependable.
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It can get you where you want to go.
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If it's not dependable, then I'll probably want to recommend overlanding
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unless you just stay on pavement, which is the thing, you know,
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you can overland on pavement as well.
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And some people think that you have to take dirt roads and stuff to be overlanding,
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but you don't have to.
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That's just a personal preference of people, so.
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All right.
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Very interesting.
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Tell me, do you have any big projects out ahead of you in your overlanding adventures?
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Well, yes.
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Well, I've had a channel for a few years now, and we've traveled a lot of terrain,
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and I have people that have been asking me where these locations are at,
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and often I keep this kind of close to the heart because it places it.
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We don't want overland, but you know, I felt that I needed to give the overland
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community something to look forward to, you know, and so basically I've been
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putting together over the last, well, really in the last few months really hard,
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but over the past few years I've always thought that it would be kind of cool
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if we could traverse Idaho from the west border to the east border using as little pavement
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as possible.
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That's something that, personally, is two tracks and, you know, country roads,
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forest roads.
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So I've been putting together what I call the West East Idaho Overland Route, and this
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year I'm kind of putting the final pieces together and making a full run this fall, and then
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hopefully if everything goes well, we will be releasing some information throughout the
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winter and hopefully we'll see some positive feedback early next, I don't know, the spring
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of 2025, so yeah, that sounds really exciting.
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If the subscribers to HPR were interested in learning more about overlanding, where would
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you set them?
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Well, I mean, you can type in overlanding on YouTube, and I don't bring up a lot of
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different overlanding channels, basically you can have to pick through them, find ones
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that you like, some of them are more gear-related and some of them more trip-related, and, you
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know, then most of them will have newer vehicles than I have, so my vehicle is 40 years old,
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so I might even be more than that, say, it'd be, well, it's pushing 50 years old now.
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Wow, so, I mean, but that just proves that you don't have to have that fancy new vehicle
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out on the rip on the trail, you know, a lot of people ask me, how do I drive an old
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vehicle out on the trail, and I was like, well, you know, if it's dependable, and I know
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it's going to give me a point A to B, why not?
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So, exactly.
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Well, thank you, George, I appreciate you coming on the show today, and I would like to
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recommend that anybody who wants to keep this channel up and running, please put out an episode.
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Thank you very much, this is Kuvmo, out.
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