I have been entertaining myself in between APD liveblog posts by watching car videos on YouTube and trying to process yesterday’s huge Formula 1 news (Christian Horner is leaving Red Bull under murky circumstances! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN).
This YouTuber, Tati Reed, drives a 1985 blue Land Rover that she calls the Blue Tit (my Chevy Suburban was the Green Machine, before we sold it). In this very charming breakfast date with Top Gear presenter James May, the two discuss a very important distinction—if you like your big-ass car, do you consider yourself an Overlander, or a Van Lifer? Here are the pros and cons, to me: If you’re a Van Lifer, you get to have air-fried tater tots whenever and wherever you like, but you stop being aware of when you have become extremely smelly.
If you are an overlander, you get your family frequently stuck in muddy lake beds where you have no business being (this is in no way based on personal experience) but you also get to see things that no one else does because … no one else will drive there. Anyway, this is a long way of saying we have a gear guide to overlanding, because of course we do, and also these traction tracks for getting your car out of the mud are on sale and I just bought them. Hooray!
