Outland Adventures

  🚐 Outland Adventures: May Blog Schedule 🌼 Which image do you prefer? New roads, fresh stories, and a little more Wildebeest this time around… I didn't like the rendition of us here... Spring finally showed up and honestly? We needed it. After falling off the blog wagon mid-March (yep, we said it), May feels like the perfect time to hit reset, chase some sunshine, and lean back into why we started Outland Adventures in the first place—finding the weird, the quiet, and the unexpectedly beautiful along the way. This month is a mix of real-life road chaos, golden hour magic, and a much closer look at the one thing that makes all of this possible: Wildebeest . 🌿 Tuesday, May 5 – Spring Reset on the Road There’s something about that first stretch of warm weather that makes you want to clean everything … and when your entire life fits inside a bus, that gets interesting fast. We’re talking full reset mode—clearing out winter clutter, reorganizing the chaos, and mentally hittin...

  Spring skies... really do hit different when you’re living life on the move.  There’s something about this time of year—the air still carrying a bit of winter’s edge, but the light stretching longer each evening—that makes both sunrise and sunset feel a little more intentional. Like the world is quietly showing off just for a moment before getting back to business. For us at Outland Adventures , golden hour isn’t just “nice lighting for photos.” It’s pause time. It’s coffee-on-the-steps-of-the-Wildebeest kind of mornings. It’s “let’s sit here a few extra minutes and not rush anywhere yet” evenings. And after enough miles, you start learning that the best views aren’t always the famous ones—they’re the ones you just happen to be parked in front of when the sky decides to put on a show. One of our favorite sunrise setups is anything wide open. Think old backroads, field edges, or those quiet pull-offs where the horizon feels endless. There’s a certain calm in watching the l...

 Roadside Oddities with Outland Adventures There’s something about the open road that makes you start noticing things you’d swear shouldn’t exist—but absolutely do. Giant boots sitting in parking lots. A 40-foot-long hot dog outside a gas station. A concrete cow staring you down like it knows your secrets. And honestly? That’s the magic of it. Welcome to Roadside Oddities 🤪 —where the map is more of a suggestion and curiosity always wins over “we should probably keep driving.” Out here in Wildebeest (our 1990 Ford E350 Shuttle Bus conversion), we’ve learned that the best travel days aren’t always about the destination. Sometimes they’re about the moment Chris slams the brakes because there’s a 20-foot-tall fiberglass squirrel pointing at a bait shop and Amanda is already halfway out the door with a camera. Because yes—we are absolutely stopping for that. 🛣️ The Beauty of “What IS That?” Roadside oddities are the universe’s way of saying, “Hey, you were getting a little too...

  Historic Routes & Hidden Gems 🛣️ Old highways, forgotten towns, and hidden spots you’ll want to add to your bucket list. There’s something magical about getting off the interstate and onto the roads that time forgot. You know the ones—two-lane highways with peeling paint lines, faded roadside signs still clinging to stories from the 1950s, and small towns that feel like they’re half in the present and half in a memory you accidentally stepped into. At Outland Adventures , we live for that feeling. The kind you only get when you’re not in a rush… when the GPS says “faster route available” and you say, “no thanks, I want the weird one.” 🛤️ Old Highways That Still Tell Stories Before the big interstates cut straight lines across the country, America was stitched together by winding highways that followed rivers, hills, and whatever path the land allowed. Some of those routes are still alive if you know where to look. Sections of old Route 66 still glow with neon n...

  Waterfront Wonders Spring has officially started doing what it does best—dragging all of us straight toward the water like it has a magnetic pull. And honestly? We’re not fighting it. Medina Co. Ohio | River Styx Park This month on Outland Adventures , we’re diving into Waterfront Wonders 🌊—a little love letter to hidden lakes, winding rivers, and those quiet, almost-too-perfect spots you stumble across when you take the “wrong” turn on purpose. We’re talking about the places that don’t always show up on big travel maps. The ones where the water is so still it looks like glass in the morning, where the only soundtrack is wind through the trees and the occasional splash from something you didn’t see but definitely heard. Some spots are perfect for paddling—slow, easy kayak drifts where you’re more likely to daydream than race anywhere. Others are made for picnic blankets, thermoses of something warm, and sitting long enough to forget what time it is. And a few? Those are stric...