Below is a basic reading list for those of you new to the Overland Adventure Lifestyle. The following articles are the best ones to start with. From there you can explore the rest of the site at your leisure.
Getting Started with the Overland Adventure Lifestyle
- Preparing for Your First Overland Adventure (Part 1)
- Preparing for Your First Overland Adventure (Part 2)
- Echoes of Adventure: S01-E08 – Risk Assessment
- ECOA Recovery Guide – Part 1: The Basics
- Intro to Communications
- Let’s Talk Maps – The Paper Kind
- Tire Pressure Management
Trip Planning and Logistics
- Planning Your Next Journey – It pays to do a little research
- Trip Planning and Research – Revisited
- A Budget Minded Approach to Overlanding
- Echoes of Adventure: S01-E06 – Trip finances
Vehicle Modifications
- First Mods & Planning a Build (Part 1)
- First Mods & Planning a Build (Part 2)
- First Mods & Planning a Build (Part 3)
- Tire Basics & Tire Selection Process
- 4×4 Maintenance
- Electrical Upgrades: Round 1
- Lighting Upgrades: The Basics
Once you have read the above articles you can then explore the site a couple of different ways. You can a) look at the site chronologically by going back to the beginning and reading them in the order they were published or b) you can use the dropdown categories menu to explore the various topics available. Every article is tagged with a category (or two), so it won’t be hard exploring a given topic in greater depth.