Welcome to our site!

We’re Patrick and Lindsey, and if you’re like us, you dream of ditching the 9 to 5 in exchange for more location independence, time, and adventure.


As lovers of the outdoors, experienced budget travelers, and avid tacklers of all things DIY, we transformed our vintage Toyota Pickup into a truck camping adventure mobile as a means to get out and find more adventure as a family!

This site was created as a way to share our story with you, while also providing a resource for all the things we learn along the way, including guides and tutorials on how to build your own truck camping/overlanding rig, tips on road trip and overland travel planning, and information related to truck camping and the gear we use.

Plus how we make it all work as a family, on a budget.

More About Us

Our wanderlust began over a decade ago when we had the opportunity to take several extended budget road trips around the United States while working remotely, totaling more than 30,000 miles while exploring 41 states and 28 National Parks.

Though we personally don’t desire a life of full-time overland travel at this point (we love coming back to our home, and our community!), we are figuring out how to make a new life of location independence and intermittent long-term travel work for our family!


More than anything, we want more of that most valuable of resources: time - and who doesn’t!?


There are so many incredible places to see, explore, and share with one another in this world!

So our lifestyle choices have been driven by this desire, working tirelessly to become debt free in order to ditch our 9-to-5s, slow down, live on less, and adventure more.


And we’d love for you to join us on our journey as we figure out what this new adventure looks like!

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Our DIY Truck Camper Setups:

This is our original 1984 Toyota Pickup turned deluxe DIY truck camper and budget overlanding vehicle.

After trying out multiple ways of getting from point A to point Z over the years, we finally landed on a small (let’s be real, it’s tiny!) DIY truck bed camper for our family adventures.

Original DIY Truck Topper Camping Build:

Go Fast Camper | Wedge Camper Build:


Patrick meticulously researched and designed all the components that went into our first truck bed camper build to create the perfect off grid capable space for us to adventure and travel with as a family of three.

Sometimes used for a weekend of truck camping, sometimes as an overland travel vehicle taking us far off the beaten path, and sometimes as a budget road trip adventure mobile this setup allowed us to affordably travel as a family - it provided a place for us to meet our basic needs and get a comfortable night's sleep along the way.

A New Overland Truck Build, and a new Chapter

In 2022, we had our second child (a baby boy named Atticus 🥰) and we officially had outgrown our beloved 1984 Toyota Pickup. After considering a variety of Budget Overland Vehicles that could fit our new family of four, we found a First Gen Toyota Tacoma and spent the year leveraging everything we had learned from our previous truck build and family travels to build the ultimate overland travel vehicle for our growing family.

For more details on this latest truck build, you can check out our Toyota Tacoma Overland Build overview which we’ll be updating as we dial in the new adventure rig.

We’re BEYOND excited to begin this next chapter of adventures, and looking forward to sharing the process once again!

So if you’re curious about how we make it work as a family of four, or about any component related to our past or present truck camping builds, overland travel builds, or just want more information on how you can customize what we’ve done to fit your own family and dream, we’d love for you to check out the rest of our site!