Podcast - Blue Yonder Overland
by Blue Yonder Overland
Blue Yonder Overland podcast is all about empowering you to spend more time in the great outdoors. We focus on overlanding and making dispersed camping easy to try, offering tips on gear, cooking, packing, and discovering off-the-beaten-path campsites across North America. Whether you’re new to the idea or a seasoned camper, we break down the barriers to getting outside at any stage of your life, helping you get more nights under the stars. Full episodes, transcripts, and resources at blueyonder-adventures.com
Episodes
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EP.22: Expo Recaps and Top 5 Tips to Start Overlanding
Jen shares takeaways and top tips learned at Overland Expo PNW and summarizes the top 5 tips to get started overlanding drawn from across this season. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.21: FAQs & Updates: from Rooftop Tents, Hammocks, and Mapping to Overland Expo PNW
Jen and Mat revisit FAQs re: rooftop tents, discuss hammocks, and updates to mapping software and Jen previews Overland Expo PNW. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.20: Why Blue Yonder, Healing in Nature, and Favorite Camping corridors
Jen unpacks the inspiration behind the "Blue Yonder" name and reflects on her recent outdoor adventures, and shares tips on her favorite overlanding corridors in Washington and Colorado. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.19: How To Bring Friends Overlanding With You
Jen and Mat discuss tips for bringing friends and family along on your overlanding adventures. They share examples about expectations, goals, logistics, and extra things to pack. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.18: How To Find Campsites Near Activities You Love
Jen discusses how to find good campsites near trailheads, ski areas, and other activity sites you love. She shares strategies for planning an activity-based camping trip, practical tips, and examples. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.17: How To Find Overland Community and Learning
Jen discusses how to find community to support you in all your adventures, with examples of groups and events, as well as tips on how to start your own community. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.16: Foraging and Fitting Adventures Into Your Life with Mykal Lefevre
Jen interviews Mykal Lefevre, who works in aerospace by day, but has found time to fit in mushroom foraging, mountain biking, and overlanding in her spare time. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.15: Breaking Down Barriers to Adventure
Jen discusses some of the questions and tactics she has used to pursue her adventurous dreams and brings back in examples from recent interviews, ending with how to get past some of the most common barriers to entry for outdoor adventures. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.14: Amanda Zito- Planning Adventures, Camp Meals, and Community
Jen interviews Amanda Zito about how her approach to adventures has evolved and what led her to start sharing lessons learned, how she keeps all her plans organized, and tips on finding and building community. Amanda also shares about upcoming adventures and planning the follow-up for her...
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EP.13: When Things Go Wrong, How Do You Recover?
Jen and Mat discuss recovery gear, tips to prep for the worst case, and share stories of what not to do to extricate you or your friends from overlanding adventures gone wrong. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.12: Azure O’Neil Talks Adventures As Catalyst for Community
Jen interviews Azure O’Neil, Director of Programming for Overland Expo. Azure discusses not only the catalysts for adventure in her own life but how her adventures have fueled friendship and community. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.11: Comparing Overland Camping Rigs
Jen and Mat discuss the various categories of overlanding camping setups they have seen or experienced and outline the pros and cons of each. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com
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EP.10: Electric Campers, Adventurous Kids, and More with Will Curry of Kamperage
Jen interviews Will Curry, founder of Kamperage, dedicated to offering fully electric RV rentals and introducing people to the joy of more time outdoors. Will and his wife are also very intentionally prioritizing family adventures together outside with their two daughters so Will shares what has...
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EP.9: Adventure Planning Hacks & Keeping the Spirit Alive
Sometimes the hardest thing about camping or other outdoor adventures is just finding the time! Jen discusses planning strategies and practical tips to help you fit more adventures in your life. Jen also discusses ideas to keep your adventurous spirit alive even during the “off” seasons. Full…
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EP.8: Camp Cooking Basics
From gear to prep, Jen and Mat discuss what you need to get started cooking while overlanding. Jen shares tips she learned at Overland Expo and asks Mat about his "go to" meals", plus packing and storage tips. Full show notes and links at blueyonder-adventures.com Topics covered: 1:01 Kicking off...
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EP.7: How to Avoid Camping Pitfalls- Prep and coping with bad conditions
Excited to go camping this weekend until you checked the weather forecast? Jen talks through standard items to have on hand to mitigate common weather and seasonal problems, extra items to pack for seasonal extremes, and shares stories of creative problem solving to still enjoy a camping weekend…
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EP.6: Dirty Secrets of Overlanding- How to Deal with Bathrooms, Showers, and Cleanup
Jen unpacks some of the most commonly heard worries about camping outside of campgrounds and practical strategies to address these issues, including how to go to the bathroom, how to shower or keep yourself clean, and how to deal with dishes and trash. She discusses trade-offs in choices ranging...
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Ep. 5: Embracing an Adventurous Mindset with Megan Skalbeck
Jen interviews her sister, Megan Skalbeck, who has embraced all forms of camping- backpacking, motorcycle camping, car camping, bikepacking- and is always ready to say yes to her next adventure. Jen and Megan discuss some of the trade-offs in decision making around taking risks, moving…
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EP.4: Brewing up coffee and Adventures with Alex Hager
2022 US Coffee in Good Spirits Champion, Alex Hager, joins to talk about her background and lessons learned from camping, bikepacking, and overlanding. She talks about the mindset to embrace solo adventures plus practical tips, gear advice, and how to uplevel your camp coffee. Alex has also found...
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Ep. 3: Overlanding 101- What do you need to get started?
Join Jen and Mat to discuss all the basics you need to take with you on your first overland camping adventure. We’ll discuss everything from safety and recovery gear to basic cooking and camp comfort, along with mistakes we’ve made along the way. Ask questions and see more behind the scenes info...
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Episode 2: Ready for Overlanding? How to find the Best Campsites
Ready to try overlanding but not sure where to start in finding great campsites outside of campgrounds? Join host, Jen, as she walks through how to trip plan, free and paid resources for finding campsites, and stories from putting all these tools to use on her adventures. Message us at...
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Episode 1: Blue Yonder Overland Podcast Launch!
Main host, Jen, walks through her reasons for starting an overlanding podcast and what you can expect out of this season. She introduces her husband, Mat, and they talk about how they started camping, got into overlanding, and why they love it so much. Message us at blueyonderjen@ Instagram or...
About this show
Blue Yonder Overland podcast is all about empowering you to spend more time in the great outdoors. We focus on overlanding and making dispersed camping easy to try, offering tips on gear, cooking, packing, and discovering off-the-beaten-path campsites across North America. Whether you’re new to the idea or a seasoned camper, we break down the barriers to getting outside at any stage of your life, helping you get more nights under the stars. Full episodes, transcripts, and resources at blueyonder-adventures.com
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