During Overland Expo 2021, our friends from Blue Ridge Overland Gear filmed a walk-around tour of Lola, our 2019 Jeep Wrangler JL Rubicon. Check out the video tour of the build, and shout-out to our pals at BROG for the great video.
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TrailRax Pak Rax are one of the most innovative and useful additions you can get for a Jeep Wrangler - they afford the opportunity to store cargo and gear on the outside of the rear windows with a modular rack and frame. The opportunities for storage are nearly endless, with options to mount everything from recovery boards to Rotopax water tanks and storage boxes.
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Bringing a US-made vehicle to Europe can be an awesome way to explore and travel, but if you plan to register your vehicle in a foreign country, you need to be prepared to make modifications in order to make the vehicle comply with safety laws in that country. Today we’re documenting what it took to modify our 2019 Jeep JL Wrangler to European spec - specifically to pass the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) inspection process in the United Kingdom. I couldn’t possibly hope to capture every modification needed for every vehicle, so this is really aimed at those of you with Jeep JL Wranglers that are US spec.
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Alright ladies, let’s have a safe space here to talk about the business. That being the business of peeing in the woods.
We’ve come a long way since the ol’ squat and find a non-poison ivy leaf to wipe with. Thanks to some modern day inventions, peeing in the woods as a lady has never been easier, more sanitary, or more eco-friendly.
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Let me preface this whole thing by saying I’m not an expert — there are people who professionally ship vehicles to Europe regularly and are probably better positioned to assist with specific questions about your shipping. But there is also a dire lack of information on this topic on the internet, so I’m trying to fill that void by providing my experience on shipping my 2019 Jeep Wrangler JL overland build to the United Kingdom.
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We love to travel - after all, that’s one of the things that we enjoy most about overlanding! A chance to explore new places, meet new people, gather new experiences, and expand our horizons. A few months ago we were approached with an opportunity to temporarily move to the United Kingdom, and we jumped at the chance. Few travel experiences can relate to the broadening that comes with actually living in a foreign country.
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Adding a 12V auxiliary battery setup to the Jeep was never a question of “should we” - it was always a question of “where should we?” The problem that comes up is that these batteries can be large and bulky, so placement in your overland rig can be tricky. In this post, we’ll walk you step-by-step through installing a 12V power system into a Jeep Wrangler JL using Kick Ass Products USA’s 170ah AGM slim battery and their DCDC charger with MPPT controller. These instructions also outline how to build a module to hold everything that is compatible with the Goose Gear drawers that many of us regard as a “must have” overland accessory. Feel free to modify and adapt these directions for your own setup, and send us a link or some pictures to your build.
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We recently added some Goose Gear drawers to our Jeep Wrangler JL overland build, and immediately found need to organizer the organization. The drawers that come from Goose Gear are nice and spacious, but that can be a double edged sword. On the one hand, it means we can cram a lot of goodies in there. But at the same time, it can quickly turn into a mess of junk without good organization inside those drawers. Here are some hacks and DIY tips we’ve used to get our setup clean and tidy.
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We recently joined John from Fury Training Concepts and Dean from East Coast Overland Adventures for a weekend expedition to hunt for fall foliage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. The trip, which was limited to 10 vehicles, as organized and sold through Blue Ridge Overland Gear — if you are interested in doing a trip like this, keep an eye on their website for future offerings.
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The western portions of Virginia and West Virginia have lots of great offerings for off-road trails, including some great places to plan a little overland getaway.
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If you have always wanted to take your adventure to the beach, then I highly recommend exploring the Over Sand Vehicle (OSV) beach at Assateague Island National Seashore. The island is maintained by the US National Park Service, and it’s one of the closest places for beach goers in the DC/VA/MD area to drive directly onto the beach.
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