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The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead is a weekly letter about building, exploring, preserving history, and making today count. Every edition shares the stories, lessons, and behind-the-scenes moments that don't always make it into a video.

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The Road Ahead: Getting to Minnesota Was Half the Battle

THE ROAD AHEAD Edition 3 | October 4, 2026 FROM THE EDITOR This week was a pretty good example of how Dirt Rock Team, Gearbox Garage and Old Soul Adventures tend to overlap. We started out scrambling to figure out how we were even getting to Minnesota, spent three days working in the rain, had to redo some of our work after losing tracks, found a couple pieces of Milwaukee Road history for Levi, and somehow made it home Saturday night with four minutes left before midnight. It wasn’t exactly...

2 days ago • 3 min read

The Road Ahead Edition 2 Dirt Rock Team We went to Mount Magazine, Arkansas, to cover 60 trails in one weekend. We finished them all, despite a heat wave and an air conditioner that quit in the Wrangler. Temperatures were close to 100 degrees, and the Hemi’s heat made the cab miserable. The Armorlite flooring I bought over Labor Day helped make the drive bearable. At night, our EcoFlow air conditioner helped us sleep in the rooftop tent. Along the way, we stopped at the Liberty Schoolhouse, a...

9 days ago • 1 min read
Power Wagon in Colorado with an iKamper rooftop tent temporarily secured with orange ratchet straps.

The Road Ahead September 20,2026 170 Trails Was the Plan. Colorado Had Other Ideas. Two weeks in Colorado brought 144 mapped trails, plenty of rain, a few mechanical problems, and one wildlife sighting we'd been waiting a long time to see. We headed to Colorado for two weeks with a goal of mapping as many as 170 trails for onX Offroad. We came home with 144 completed, which we're pretty happy with considering how the trip went. It rained almost every day, but the weather wasn't our only...

16 days ago • 3 min read