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The New Normal for Overlanding in America

Most travelers all over the world are starting to realize just how attractive North America is for overland travel. These days the quiet Overland Expo feels more like SEMA, and there are more Back-Country Discovery Routes than interstates (slight exaggeration). A few years ago the iOverlander app boasted more Walmart parking lots than real camping locations. Now there are so many spots I think someone has even tagged a pull-off in my backyard. So what does this all mean? Well, to us, it means that this much attention is making it impossible for people to understand what is the right

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Traveling Overland in the Winter

Celebrating the Season – How to Best Prepare for Winter Overland Travel The holiday season in North America normally is a time where most places get chilly, see snow, and roads become impassible. However that may be, it is also a great time to travel to certain places because they are less crowded, and offer a completely different experience and beauty. If the inner adventurer in you is planning to take advantage of these times, just make sure you are most prepared for potential harsh winter conditions. Remember that every vehicle is at the wrath of Old Man Winter, but

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Experience The Difference of the EXD Camper

If you’ve been following our blog and social media pages, you’ve well seen the release of our newest EarthCruiser vehicle, the EXD camper. A few blogs back we compared 1 ton trucks to popular conversion vans. Like we said in the blog, we love the van life concept, and the EXD is how EarthCruiser would do vanlife! Since the release of the EXD we’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding what makes it such an amazing machine. Most recently Truck Camper Adventure (TCA) asked to interview Lance about what makes it different. Below is some of the dialog… TCA:

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Life is too short to sit still

“The only thing I regret is not traveling enough.”   -Mom It’s 5:20 AM, and the nurses just came in to check on my mom. As I sit by her bedside I still can’t understand how such a strong woman was picked apart so quickly by the “c” word. In January of 2017 my mother called, and was frustrated that work was getting so stressful she couldn’t even type an email. “I just can’t find the words, and it feels like I’m having a mental breakdown” she told me. After a few days dealing with it she decided to get a

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The Creation of #AdventureMOD

Drink Beer Outside If there is two things you quickly learn living in Bend, Oregon it is that the great outdoors and beer are like two peas in a pod. Of course you can enjoy one without the other, but who doesn’t love sitting around a campfire in the middle of nowhere sipping a good pale ale? OK OK wine might be your thing, or a fancy LaCroix, but we live in Bend… and that hoppy beverage is king. Hanging out with our pals over at 10 Barrel Brewing, we got to talking about their Drink Beer Outside event. It

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MOD Releases in September!

Your MOD Adventure Awaits You’ve been waiting patiently and now the time has finally come! We are currently taking preorders of MOD for our release in SEPTEMBER. Make a deposit and reserve your build slot today. Create and build the MOD to your own ADVENTURE. MOD Pricing and Information 

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Nobody Puts MOD in the Corner

We Begin Our Prototyping with a Retired GZL Shell “It’s time to start building!”, Lance said as we were finalizing the last few SolidWorks files. This jump from concept to proto-type always gets our engineers nervous. Hoping that everything was thought through, calculated out, and will line up is the dream but never the reality. By noon the next day a stack of plywood showed up, and our crew began cutting shapes on our C&C machine. Why plywood? Because it is cheap and easy to take a computer design and see how it feels when it is a tangible structure.

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We Sent Our Marketing Guru Out for Some Extra Training

The Importance of Off-Road Driving Safety My passion for adventure travel started on two wheels. Once I bought my first bike, my dad and two uncles allowed me to tag along on weekend trips that explored the back roads of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into, but thankfully they did and had all the right gear if something was to go wrong. By wrong I don’t mean an accident either, it was normally wrong turns that got us lost with no cell service or a bad road that caused

Read More +
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MOD: One Shell of an Idea

Sharon, the owner of Aroma Coffee Hut down the street from EarthCruiser HQ, is a pretty happy camper these days. Why? Well mostly because of the amount of coffee we are consuming these days to make sure all is prepared for Overland Expo West, but also because she helped plant a seed in our overly caffeinated minds. Since the release of the GZL truck camper back in October 2017, most customers have been overly satisfied with the premium options it comes standard with. There is, however, a growing contingent of interested people who love the GZL concept but don’t need

Read More +
Blog

The New Normal for Overlanding in America

Most travelers all over the world are starting to realize just how attractive North America is for overland travel. These days the quiet Overland Expo feels more like SEMA, and there are more Back-Country Discovery Routes than interstates (slight exaggeration). A few years ago the iOverlander app boasted more Walmart parking lots than real camping locations. Now there are so many spots I think someone has even tagged a pull-off in my backyard. So what does this all mean? Well, to us, it means that this much attention is making it impossible for people to understand what is the right

Read More +
Blog

Traveling Overland in the Winter

Celebrating the Season – How to Best Prepare for Winter Overland Travel The holiday season in North America normally is a time where most places get chilly, see snow, and roads become impassible. However that may be, it is also a great time to travel to certain places because they are less crowded, and offer a completely different experience and beauty. If the inner adventurer in you is planning to take advantage of these times, just make sure you are most prepared for potential harsh winter conditions. Remember that every vehicle is at the wrath of Old Man Winter, but

Read More +
Blog

Experience The Difference of the EXD Camper

If you’ve been following our blog and social media pages, you’ve well seen the release of our newest EarthCruiser vehicle, the EXD camper. A few blogs back we compared 1 ton trucks to popular conversion vans. Like we said in the blog, we love the van life concept, and the EXD is how EarthCruiser would do vanlife! Since the release of the EXD we’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding what makes it such an amazing machine. Most recently Truck Camper Adventure (TCA) asked to interview Lance about what makes it different. Below is some of the dialog… TCA:

Read More +
Blog

Life is too short to sit still

“The only thing I regret is not traveling enough.”   -Mom It’s 5:20 AM, and the nurses just came in to check on my mom. As I sit by her bedside I still can’t understand how such a strong woman was picked apart so quickly by the “c” word. In January of 2017 my mother called, and was frustrated that work was getting so stressful she couldn’t even type an email. “I just can’t find the words, and it feels like I’m having a mental breakdown” she told me. After a few days dealing with it she decided to get a

Read More +
Blog

The Creation of #AdventureMOD

Drink Beer Outside If there is two things you quickly learn living in Bend, Oregon it is that the great outdoors and beer are like two peas in a pod. Of course you can enjoy one without the other, but who doesn’t love sitting around a campfire in the middle of nowhere sipping a good pale ale? OK OK wine might be your thing, or a fancy LaCroix, but we live in Bend… and that hoppy beverage is king. Hanging out with our pals over at 10 Barrel Brewing, we got to talking about their Drink Beer Outside event. It

Read More +
Blog

MOD Releases in September!

Your MOD Adventure Awaits You’ve been waiting patiently and now the time has finally come! We are currently taking preorders of MOD for our release in SEPTEMBER. Make a deposit and reserve your build slot today. Create and build the MOD to your own ADVENTURE. MOD Pricing and Information 

Read More +
Blog

Nobody Puts MOD in the Corner

We Begin Our Prototyping with a Retired GZL Shell “It’s time to start building!”, Lance said as we were finalizing the last few SolidWorks files. This jump from concept to proto-type always gets our engineers nervous. Hoping that everything was thought through, calculated out, and will line up is the dream but never the reality. By noon the next day a stack of plywood showed up, and our crew began cutting shapes on our C&C machine. Why plywood? Because it is cheap and easy to take a computer design and see how it feels when it is a tangible structure.

Read More +
Blog

We Sent Our Marketing Guru Out for Some Extra Training

The Importance of Off-Road Driving Safety My passion for adventure travel started on two wheels. Once I bought my first bike, my dad and two uncles allowed me to tag along on weekend trips that explored the back roads of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into, but thankfully they did and had all the right gear if something was to go wrong. By wrong I don’t mean an accident either, it was normally wrong turns that got us lost with no cell service or a bad road that caused

Read More +
Blog

MOD: One Shell of an Idea

Sharon, the owner of Aroma Coffee Hut down the street from EarthCruiser HQ, is a pretty happy camper these days. Why? Well mostly because of the amount of coffee we are consuming these days to make sure all is prepared for Overland Expo West, but also because she helped plant a seed in our overly caffeinated minds. Since the release of the GZL truck camper back in October 2017, most customers have been overly satisfied with the premium options it comes standard with. There is, however, a growing contingent of interested people who love the GZL concept but don’t need

Read More +