Chris Dixon

Our Favorite Gear at Overland Expo East

In addition to the drool-worthy rigs we saw at Overland Expo East earlier this month, there was a bevy of new gear to make living the four-wheel life even more luxurious.

Our Favorite Vehicles from Overland Expo East

Here are eight of our favorite overland camping machines that managed to navigate the calf-deep muck at Asheville's Reeb Ranch.

The Warhorse: 1966 Toyota FJ45 Land Cruiser

Back in the eighties, vintage Land Cruisers were fetish objects to Tim McGrath and his buddies at Albuquerque’s Eldorado High School. During his junior year, McGrath was ecstatic to find a dark green...

The Craftsman Building Some of the World’s Most Beautiful Custom Campers

Jay Nelson contracted the road-trip bug in the 1980s when his parents took him and his sisters on a romp across Europe in a VW Vanagon. Afterward they shipped the van back to California so they could...

Covet: This 1986 Land Rover Defender 110

In 2009, Mike Sandone and his soon-to-be wife, Sofie, took an epic road trip across the mountains, beaches, and salt flats of Sonora, Mexico, in an old Jeep Wrangler. They wanted to be highly mobile...

These Custom Motorcycles Can Go Anywhere

James Crowe didn’t start out a motorcycle guy. After a childhood filled with romping around the British Columbia backcountry on skis and mountain bikes, he became fascinated with combustion-powered...

This Pro Runner Turned a ‘66 Clark Cortez into a Beach Hut

On November 2, 2014, then 28-year-old Stephan Shay ran the toughest race of his life. Not only was the New York City Marathon freezing cold and rainy, but eight years earlier, Shay’s older brother...

Janna Irons and Johnny Stifter's 2009 Dodge Sprinter 2500

Why This Family Bought a ‘90 VW Westy as the Ultimate Mobile Home

Chasing the Dream: How to Live the Ultimate #Vanlife

For a certain breed of adventurous souls, the key to happiness is a road machine that forever stokes their desire to chase fun. Looking at these seven dream rigs, it's hard not to want to play along.

An Anatomy of the Wipeout that Nearly Killed Garrett McNamara

This winter, with Godzilla El Niño in effect, is shaping up to be a far more wild and critical one for Pacific surfers than the last monster storm season, in 1997-1998.

Why Volkswagen’s New Electric Budd-e Isn't a True Camper

Volkswagen’s New Budd-e Microbus features some innovative tech, but is nothing like the old campers we’ve come to love.

The Top Ten Spots to Hang Ten

There are certain challenges any surfers worth their salt water have to take on. Some are blissfully isolated, others are crowded but iconic, and several lie somewhere in between.

Judging the World's Biggest Waves

An inside look at the most difficult and carefully deliberated Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards judgment in history.

The Purpose-Driven Van

"I bought my first VW Westfalia Vanagon camper back in 1999, and have since owned five of them. I finally settled on a gorgeous 1991 model—lucked into via Craigslist for $9,000 a few years...