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International Travel
News From The Road
Tips & Tricks
Adventures

EC Adventure Preview – Best of Patagonia

The EarthCruiser Adventure program is set to start 2024 with a bang, with a three-week trip covering the highlights of the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile. Patagonia is renowned for its breathtaking landscapes, characterized by towering mountains, expansive glaciers, crystal-clear lakes, and vast open plains. The dramatic and diverse scenery creates a paradise for photographers and nature enthusiasts. It also offers superb back-road driving and camping. This trip takes in all of Patagonia’s classic parks, peaks, and highlights. Our drives include the legendary Ruta 40 and Carretera Austral. We’ve also worked in a few bespoke experiences. These include a

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Adventures

EarthCruiser Adventure Preview: Montana Winter Adventure

One of our owner’s favorite features of EarthCruiser vehicles is their true four-season capabilities. This means the winter months, when parks and trails are least crowded, are open to enjoy and explore. The Montana Winter Adventure has been specially designed to build confidence in winter driving, recovery, and camping skills, along with experiencing private, exclusive access to one of the world’s most iconic national parks. On this Adventure, we will spend three days exploring Yellowstone National Park during the winter, when wildlife viewing and stunning vistas are at their finest. We will spend a full day in the park on

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EarthCruiser Community

Owner Stories: Randy & Carol Dick and Their EC#37

Hi Randy and Carol, thank you for taking time to talk with us and share your story. Let’s start with you telling us a little about yourselves. In 2018 we semi-retired after working many years in business and government, but we still maintain a small family enterprise that keeps us out of trouble.  We have been married almost 40 years; have two adult children and two grandchildren. Carol grew up in the Fargo/Moorhead area of North Dakota/Minnesota and Randy is a born and bred San Diegan. We’re an outdoorsy family (how can you not be in San Diego?) and have

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EarthCruiser Community

Owner Stories: Howard & Heidi Snell – Adventures in Remote Living

Howard and Heidi Snell are beloved members of the EarthCruiser family and one of the earliest U.S. owners, securing #3 in the beginning days of EarthCruiser USA. Since then, they’ve moved on to their second EarthCruiser, which they put to good active use in the Western U.S. and Mexico. This past year has slowed their travels a bit, including group trips that they enjoy, but it hasn’t dampened their adventurous spirits which, as you’ll discover as we did, is something that has abounded in their relationship from the beginning. It is inspiring to hear their story and we are so

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Media

Off the Road Again Podcast with Lance Gillies

We are honored to have Lance appear as a guest on the Off The Road Again Podcast, a weekly release of off-road fun from the voices of two four-wheeling enthusiasts, Chris Tracy and Ross Ballot, who love all things off-road. Ross has experience with quads, a Jeep Wrangler YJ, a Chevy Avalanche, and a Canadian 4Runner, the StormTrooper. Chris started out with a Jeep Wrangler TJ, moved on to a Tacoma, a V8 4Runner, and is currently living with #TheLandYacht, a 1994 Toyota Land Cruiser FZJ80. In this episode “Ross & Chris welcome Lance Gillies from EarthCruiser to the show.

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Media

Live For Adventure: EarthCruiser’s New Look For a New Era

What a year! In addition to expanding our popular EarthCruiser FX and EXP lines to include Dual Cab options, introducing the EC Terranova Expedition Camper, and launching an entirely new business unit with CORE vehicles, we’re also evolving the look and feel of the EarthCruiser brand.   If you’re reading this, you’re on our new website, a project months in the making. We’re honored so many people want to learn about our vehicles and the people that bring them to life. We hope this new experience more deeply conveys the heart and heritage of EarthCruiser. The ride-drive-live experience in an

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Blog

Thankful for EarthCruiser Adventure Pets

The world can feel quite dizzying right now, which is why it’s more important than ever to step away and take a break, even if only for a short while. Isn’t this one of the reasons we love to get outside and get lost? It helps us get beyond ourselves and provides perspective shifts and grounding moments. At EarthCruiser we believe in giving thanks for those things in our lives, big and small, that bring us joy and keep us moving forward, together. We’ve decided to honor Thanksgiving all month long. No, not turkey dinner but taking time to say

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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.

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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 +
EarthCruiser Community
International Travel
News From The Road
Tips & Tricks
Adventures

EC Adventure Preview – Best of Patagonia

The EarthCruiser Adventure program is set to start 2024 with a bang, with a three-week trip covering the highlights of the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile. Patagonia is renowned for its breathtaking landscapes, characterized by towering mountains, expansive glaciers, crystal-clear lakes, and vast open plains. The dramatic and diverse scenery creates a paradise for photographers and nature enthusiasts. It also offers superb back-road driving and camping. This trip takes in all of Patagonia’s classic parks, peaks, and highlights. Our drives include the legendary Ruta 40 and Carretera Austral. We’ve also worked in a few bespoke experiences. These include a

Read More +
Adventures

EarthCruiser Adventure Preview: Montana Winter Adventure

One of our owner’s favorite features of EarthCruiser vehicles is their true four-season capabilities. This means the winter months, when parks and trails are least crowded, are open to enjoy and explore. The Montana Winter Adventure has been specially designed to build confidence in winter driving, recovery, and camping skills, along with experiencing private, exclusive access to one of the world’s most iconic national parks. On this Adventure, we will spend three days exploring Yellowstone National Park during the winter, when wildlife viewing and stunning vistas are at their finest. We will spend a full day in the park on

Read More +
EarthCruiser Community

Owner Stories: Randy & Carol Dick and Their EC#37

Hi Randy and Carol, thank you for taking time to talk with us and share your story. Let’s start with you telling us a little about yourselves. In 2018 we semi-retired after working many years in business and government, but we still maintain a small family enterprise that keeps us out of trouble.  We have been married almost 40 years; have two adult children and two grandchildren. Carol grew up in the Fargo/Moorhead area of North Dakota/Minnesota and Randy is a born and bred San Diegan. We’re an outdoorsy family (how can you not be in San Diego?) and have

Read More +
EarthCruiser Community

Owner Stories: Howard & Heidi Snell – Adventures in Remote Living

Howard and Heidi Snell are beloved members of the EarthCruiser family and one of the earliest U.S. owners, securing #3 in the beginning days of EarthCruiser USA. Since then, they’ve moved on to their second EarthCruiser, which they put to good active use in the Western U.S. and Mexico. This past year has slowed their travels a bit, including group trips that they enjoy, but it hasn’t dampened their adventurous spirits which, as you’ll discover as we did, is something that has abounded in their relationship from the beginning. It is inspiring to hear their story and we are so

Read More +
Media

Off the Road Again Podcast with Lance Gillies

We are honored to have Lance appear as a guest on the Off The Road Again Podcast, a weekly release of off-road fun from the voices of two four-wheeling enthusiasts, Chris Tracy and Ross Ballot, who love all things off-road. Ross has experience with quads, a Jeep Wrangler YJ, a Chevy Avalanche, and a Canadian 4Runner, the StormTrooper. Chris started out with a Jeep Wrangler TJ, moved on to a Tacoma, a V8 4Runner, and is currently living with #TheLandYacht, a 1994 Toyota Land Cruiser FZJ80. In this episode “Ross & Chris welcome Lance Gillies from EarthCruiser to the show.

Read More +
Media

Live For Adventure: EarthCruiser’s New Look For a New Era

What a year! In addition to expanding our popular EarthCruiser FX and EXP lines to include Dual Cab options, introducing the EC Terranova Expedition Camper, and launching an entirely new business unit with CORE vehicles, we’re also evolving the look and feel of the EarthCruiser brand.   If you’re reading this, you’re on our new website, a project months in the making. We’re honored so many people want to learn about our vehicles and the people that bring them to life. We hope this new experience more deeply conveys the heart and heritage of EarthCruiser. The ride-drive-live experience in an

Read More +
Blog

Thankful for EarthCruiser Adventure Pets

The world can feel quite dizzying right now, which is why it’s more important than ever to step away and take a break, even if only for a short while. Isn’t this one of the reasons we love to get outside and get lost? It helps us get beyond ourselves and provides perspective shifts and grounding moments. At EarthCruiser we believe in giving thanks for those things in our lives, big and small, that bring us joy and keep us moving forward, together. We’ve decided to honor Thanksgiving all month long. No, not turkey dinner but taking time to say

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

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 +