Overland trip: planning to plan the planning

"TysMagic" (twjeffery) 01/24/2017 at 15:20 • Filed to: overland, defender

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Meeting with my buddy this evening for all you can eat sushi and doing a little talking on what we think we are going to do for our overland trip in April.

We have a few ideas going at the moment. Trying to get in on the Overland kinja to post updates there, but Oppo likes trips and cars so it’s appropriate here too.

Here is a map with a relatively inaccurate line proposing the route:

an incredibly crude sketch of the propsed route

Right now we are looking at a 3 day, 2 night adventure in to north east Tennessee in to south east Kentucky. My family owns a cabin right on the border of Big South Fork National Park so we are going to use that as a jumping off point. It will take roughly half the day to get there, then we planned on taking service roads through Big South Fork up to Daniel Boone National Forest to a camp site for the night.
Saturday maybe squeeze in some fly fishing before continuing through the forest to the far side of the park to a decently reviewed vineyard we found. After a tasting or two, we are looking at heading back in to the park to hit up a few of the shooting ranges and either booking it back to the cabin for a night in a bed or camping out - still ironing out that part of the plan.
Sunday will include some early morning fly fishing and heading back to the real world.

My buddy’s Defender 110 we’ll be cruising in for your time

Ominous pic of the 110 we will be riding through the woods in 

Thanks to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and bigger thanks to  !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for suggestions/tips/links/and more to give us some starting points as we plan more this evening.

Nothing > TysMagic 01/24/2017 at 15:28

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Love that shot of the 110! Have fun with the planning, sounds like it’ll be a great time.

carzcarzcarz > TysMagic 01/24/2017 at 15:29

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Sounds like a great trip, thanks for sharing. Little jealous here

TysMagic > Nothing 01/24/2017 at 15:38

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agreed! His shot ripped from instagram. The planning has been a lot more interesting than expected. I feel like that’s half of the fun honestly. All the prep work and what not, I love getting in to the details.

TysMagic > carzcarzcarz 01/24/2017 at 15:39

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I’m excited for it to happen. We have a lot of planning to do to on the route, but it’s a very good start (i think)

benjrblant > TysMagic 01/24/2017 at 16:57

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Keep em coming!

backRoads > TysMagic 01/26/2017 at 15:32

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This is interesting.. I didn’t know there were trails for full size vehicles in Daniel Boone.. do you have to stick to the Highway Vehicle use roads?

TysMagic > backRoads 01/26/2017 at 17:21

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from what I’m looking at on the map and reading throughout the web there are enough forest service roads that would get us to where we are wanting to go. Am I being to trusting of the map? haha

atrombs > TysMagic 01/27/2017 at 07:33

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Looks awesome man! That Defender looks like an awesome ride. I really wish I grew up somewhere where off-roading was more accessible.

Roundbadge > TysMagic 01/27/2017 at 07:51

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This looks like an awesome trip. I’m quite envious.

backRoads > TysMagic 01/27/2017 at 14:43

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I have no idea... just looking over their website and there’s all this stuff about vehicles < 50" using the trails, and those over 50" using another system that seems much smaller.. haven’t been, though, so it’s hard to tell. Let us know what you learn?

TysMagic > backRoads 01/27/2017 at 14:44

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you bet! I will share what goes down no matter what