Is Overlanding Better Than Traditional Travel?

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All right, so like I mentioned in the intro today, I'm talking about sort of my opinions, I guess, about the difference between what makes something a vacation and what makes something an overlanding or camping trip.

So, but let me preface this by saying, you know, Hawaii was amazing.

Beautiful, beautiful place.

We went to Oahu and we went to Maui.

We spent most of our time in Maui, which was...

One of those beautiful places I've ever been we got to see a lot of really cool touristy sites Swim in the ocean.

I mean just beautiful stuff snorkeling, right? But there's definitely a different feel to it So one thing was, you know my kids came with my family came with Extended family came with and that was also really fun to see all these different people to see my nieces and stuff.

I My, you know, brothers-in-law and my sisters-in-law, we had a great, great time.

But there is something about that, right? Like when you are on a vacation, you are essentially the destination is what you're doing, right? So you are going to a place to spend time doing events or activities, which I think that's thing number one that sort of separates vacation.

a vacation from overlanding, right? And the definition of overlanding, we talk about it all the time, is something where the journey itself is actually kind of the goal for overlanding versus where you're actually going.

You're not looking to achieve a certain destination per se, although we often end up in a place that we planned on.

A lot of the times that journey, the, you know, getting stuck when recovered, the seeing things that you didn't expect to see along the route to the place that you're going, that's what makes overlanding so fun.

Whereas with You know, this vacation, we had to fly for 12 hours.

So like the journey itself was pretty grueling and kind of awful.

So that's kind of thing number one, I think, that differentiates a vacation from overlanding is that, you know, the journey itself to get to vacation can often be a slog, right? It can be not so much fun.

Not pretty.

I mean, we spent a two-hour layover in Vegas where we just had to kind of sit in chairs and, you know, the airplanes are just really super small and tight, and they're not comfortable.

I'm, you know, pretty tall, so my knees are in the back of the seat.

And you're really just waiting for that trip to be over.

And the trip home is even worse, right? Because then you've had your fun, you've had your vacation, and you're on your way home.

And you just have to endure that 12 hours of flying and sitting and being stuck in a plane with a bunch of other people coughing all over you, right? So there's definitely some downsides to the travel side of vacation.

Now with overlanding, you know, the nice benefit is that the drive can be a slog too, right? I've made an episode about that before where sometimes it takes a long time to get to a location.

You know, when I went to Wyoming, we had to drive for two and a half, three days to get out there from the Midwest where I live.

And that's not the most fun, but at the same time, I was convoying with people and I was getting to know them and developing friendships and relationships with these people and still seeing amazing things that I hadn't anticipated seeing.