Jeepeto
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First trip is in the books! We spent the weekend chasing new places, dirt roads, and great food. I’m loving the newest evolution of Jeepeto III, she’s more useful than ever. The GFC was perfect as a comfortable place to lay our head each night, and worked great as a place to hang out whenever we needed a break from driving. Just find a good spot (we hit a little lake) to pull over and pop the tent and it works as a great little patio with a view.
We spent the first night at the state park where we got married almost 5 years ago (it’ll be official on the 9th). We had planned on staying in a great little dispersed camping site that we know of but came across a concerning abandoned tent at the site. Unfortunately it isn’t uncommon to see abandoned sites like this but this one got too weird when we looked inside to find what seem to be a collection of family albums, class yearbooks, and otherwise very sentimental belongings. It was enough to push us another half hour up the road to our wedding venue. Unfortunately it was also covered in funky mildew and mold and we didn’t have any place to put it to haul it out of there. Good news is I’m in the area often and I’ll swing by the next time I’m up there with a pickup or SXS to clean it out if it’s still there.
We found a little lake the next day across the border in Missouri after spending the day on a mix of dirt and pavement exploring northern Arkansas. It was all corps of engineer property and quite busy with typical Labor Day family campers. We were lucky enough to find a really nice lady working the gate who got us into a site for the night even though they were officially “booked up”. We woke up to 67* and a beautiful foggy lake. It was almost enough to make me believe fall was here.
Sunday we headed back south and stayed at the family property. As nice as Jeepeto is to camp out of it’s hard to beat our little base camp for convenience (hot water, and AC ?).
Monday morning we left out early and started our journey home. It’s a trip we make a couple times a month, and I’m usually just cannonballing home to rest up for the work week. Something was different this time, we made a small detour to one of our favorite little lakes and backed up to the shoreline to hang out for a few hours. It changed our day from a grind of a travel day to a mellow day trip to the lake. I know we’re still in the honeymoon phase with the GFC, but I’m really loving how versatile it is. I can’t imagine having the same experience if it took even 5 minutes to set up and take down. It is just too easy, we don’t even have to think about deploying it. If a situation would be better with the tent you just do it; It takes seconds.
For now, I’m stoked with the direction we’re headed. Overlanding style travel is much easier to find in our region, and I can tell it will lead to more adventurous weekends in the coming years. I still plan to make my way out west every year, and I’m excited to find more remote areas that we’ve not been ?
We spent the first night at the state park where we got married almost 5 years ago (it’ll be official on the 9th). We had planned on staying in a great little dispersed camping site that we know of but came across a concerning abandoned tent at the site. Unfortunately it isn’t uncommon to see abandoned sites like this but this one got too weird when we looked inside to find what seem to be a collection of family albums, class yearbooks, and otherwise very sentimental belongings. It was enough to push us another half hour up the road to our wedding venue. Unfortunately it was also covered in funky mildew and mold and we didn’t have any place to put it to haul it out of there. Good news is I’m in the area often and I’ll swing by the next time I’m up there with a pickup or SXS to clean it out if it’s still there.
We found a little lake the next day across the border in Missouri after spending the day on a mix of dirt and pavement exploring northern Arkansas. It was all corps of engineer property and quite busy with typical Labor Day family campers. We were lucky enough to find a really nice lady working the gate who got us into a site for the night even though they were officially “booked up”. We woke up to 67* and a beautiful foggy lake. It was almost enough to make me believe fall was here.
Sunday we headed back south and stayed at the family property. As nice as Jeepeto is to camp out of it’s hard to beat our little base camp for convenience (hot water, and AC ?).
Monday morning we left out early and started our journey home. It’s a trip we make a couple times a month, and I’m usually just cannonballing home to rest up for the work week. Something was different this time, we made a small detour to one of our favorite little lakes and backed up to the shoreline to hang out for a few hours. It changed our day from a grind of a travel day to a mellow day trip to the lake. I know we’re still in the honeymoon phase with the GFC, but I’m really loving how versatile it is. I can’t imagine having the same experience if it took even 5 minutes to set up and take down. It is just too easy, we don’t even have to think about deploying it. If a situation would be better with the tent you just do it; It takes seconds.
For now, I’m stoked with the direction we’re headed. Overlanding style travel is much easier to find in our region, and I can tell it will lead to more adventurous weekends in the coming years. I still plan to make my way out west every year, and I’m excited to find more remote areas that we’ve not been ?
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