Thank you Robert. That was a great comment to read after a long day doing the things that pay for my hobbies, but that are not my hobbies 😄…. Roll on the summer.

Thank you DJ, great to have your feedback, much appreciated. Tent is back on the roof so more to come this year. Just back from our first wild camp of 2023. Hope to have that up in the next week or so. It was a beach camp so made full use of the setup very nicely.

“These are the good old days” Great to hear though that your daughters have taken it forward a generation and spend that time in the outdoors of their own accord. That’s the ‘target acquired’ I would say.

Genuinely appreciate the feedback Terry, it takes time to put together but it’s all time thinking about good things and looking at good memories. Camping and 4x4 😆👍 but still comments like this would fire you up to do more for sure so thanks again.

Thank you kindly, I very much appreciate the comment. It got more love than any other video I’ve made, who knows how the algorithm works, either way I’m glad you found it and enjoyed it 👍👍

@@VISTATREKKER as a fellow disco. 3 owner with similar aged children it’s pretty much the pinnacle of what we are trying to achieve too. Inspired and entertaining. Keep up the good work mate. Videos of this quality and design it will happen for you soon

@@Discoveryjamie very much appreciate your support. The whole concept of this kind of camping is so addictive. Drop a comment here when you get setup and enjoy a night under canvas with family. That as you’ll probably already know is the point of no return, and happily so.

Thank you Miriam. This project has been a good legacy of the pandemic for us. I’m not sure if it’s fabulous design or utter laziness but this setup will be hitting the road with precious little change this year. If it ain’t broke done fix it…. We’ll except for those glow plugs, that creak in the suspension, that bit of rust I found etc etc etc 😆 there’s always plenty to fix on an 28 year old machine.

Thank you Noel🙏 as always your feedback is much appreciated, hopefully as you say we cross paths along the way. Ever more likely with your efforts in the field.

Thank you for the feedback. Genuinely appreciated. Glad you enjoyed it. Strangely enough the sound takes as long to get right as the visuals do so that’s nice to hear.

Thank you Giselle, glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate the feedback.

You are most welcome! Enjoy life!

Hey thank you for the comment. Yes it is a tough and well thought out tent. I’m about 3 years in and very happy with it. My main issue has been packing it away in higher winds, I tend to be the only adult around and can easily end up being laughed at by my brats during this scenario. Looking forward to getting through your recent episodes. Would love to do such a trip.

@@VISTATREKKER haha yes!! Not the easiest to pack up in windy or rainy conditions! Spain is a very diverse country! I can only recommend exploring it (: if you are planning a trip there sometime, hit me up I can give you a few tips if you need them (: cheers

That’s a great offer thank you. I have now started an iPhoto album to collect tips, contacts and ideas for doing this trip. You will be its first entry. I will be in touch 🙏

If I could only fit a canoe onboard aswell 😁

@@VISTATREKKER hahahaha. yes indeed ;-)

Great to hear Philip. Couple of years have gone by and I still use this setup. Boxes and shelves have their benefit. I do a fair bit of solo camping too (and school runs etc too) and when solo I sleep on the dogs bed under the shelf. The great thing about boxes is I can cook or work out of either side or the tailgate depending on weather. This in turn allows me to park on slopes according to how it’s comfortable to sleep rather than trying to avoid wind at my cooking station when parking. Anyway the setup is secondary to the departure. Get out there and enjoy, that’s the real design that we need to get to 🙌.

You’re very welcome, glad you enjoyed it. I did most of my research by watching similar contributors on KZfaq so it only seemed right to return the favour back to the pool of ideas👍

Excellent Matthew. Norway would be a dream trip, let us know how you get along. Would really enjoy following your trip up there.

As always very much appreciate the feedback and the comment. Another one on the way soon👍

Thank you Lukasz, as always I really appreciate your feedback. My side steps took a battering alright, but by jumping on them I pushed them back down, and they were fine. Therefore by my estimation I’m bang on budget, at least until they snap off 😄 You can loose many thousands on gear before you even leave the bumper area as I’m sure you’ve noticed. The rear departure angle is affected by my rack, but at the end of the day if on a rare occasion it catches on an obstacle I can just lift it off by hand. Despite my aspirations of daring do off road, the reality is this will do fine as it is - most likely I won’t need to lift it off at all. Your observation on simplicity is exactly where I was trying to go with it 👍👍

Niamh thank you for watching and especially for taking the time for your feedback. It genuinely means a lot. Sending videos out into the digital unknown can be akin to telling jokes to an empty room. They may be hilarious but you do tend to wonder about that a little more in silence😁. The feedback loop from an audience is much appreciated wherever it is found. The roof top tent will certainly not suit everyone at all. In particular the vehicle being tethered to the camp is a disadvantage for multi day stays in one place, although that’s not what we’ve been doing. Our latest camp was in a little wood occupied by three very curious donkeys, probably the first time I genuinely could use the elevation of the tent for the same reason it is deemed valuable by those who explore the South African homeland of the idea. They have far more valid reasons than donkeys mind you😁

Thank you Andrew. I appreciate the feedback 🙏

Genuinely appreciate your comment Alan, really great to have the feedback 👍👍

@@VISTATREKKER I will probably watch again, I'm sure and if I can provide any feedback or have any questions, I will be sure to reply.

Absolutely, there’s more in the series too, they might pass the odd Coffee break here and there.

No problem, let me know how you get on👍

Thank you, perfect enough 😂

Thank you for the feedback 👍

Thanks John. As always appreciate the feedback. It’s a drifta fire pit which I purchased through their eu website. www.drifta.eu/product/drifta-stockton-firepit-kit-large/

Thank you very much. Really appreciate the feedback.

Very much appreciate the comment, especially from someone who knows the time it takes to tell these little tales as best you can, like yourself I suspect I find myself a little addicted to the whole process. Good fun all round.

Just up late editing another video, I get lost in time with it, see my watch, wonder where the time has gone and think I’m mad. Then I see your comment and think maybe I’m not. Thank you for the support Paul 👍

I really appreciate the feedback, lovely to hear I may have put a little inspiration back into the pool of Overlanders who now lie camped somewhere far along the road ahead of me as they in turn are responsible for inspiring me into this kind of travel.

Thanks Matt, really appreciate the comment? I just found your channel, never ceases to amaze me how I can still find channels on here like yours full of content I’ve never seen even though I’ve been searching for it. The algorithm seems to lean towards the ultra popular million subscriber shows rather than the specific video I seek. Looking forward to getting through your D3 videos👍

@@VISTATREKKER Thanks. Yeah finding the right content is a bit like mining for coal. Sometimes you’ll come across a rich seam, most other times it’s just crud!

Thank you Andrea, luck is relative to the view point of the observer, but I choose the same view point. For all the things I could change or buy or improve I love what I have because it is what got me going. Thanks for the feedback🙏.

@@VISTATREKKER Of course! Thank you for the shared experience. I am also organizing to have the same freedom...in Rome we sey "Daje" for "let's go!" 😁👍🏻

What a stunning country you have in which to begin. Daje 💪👍

@@VISTATREKKER The entire Dolomite arc to begin with

Is my dream, really lucky man 👍😄

Thank you Victor, very much appreciate the feedback. 👍👍

Chris thank you very much, genuinely appreciate your comment and feedback. Takes a lot of time to do these but there’s few better ways to communicate a story or a time and place than by video. Plenty of others on here inspired me this way, so it’s nice to feed a little back into the same pool of interest here. Thanks for watching.

I think if you are using a 2 man tent there is an argument for a roof rack as there is less weight up there and yet still space up there to use, however with a 3 man tent it makes no sense at all to me. The rack is 30kg. They cost a fortune, €1500 or so. To be honest with this 75kg tent alone I still feel the additional roll when its up there. I am very pleased with the bars as a solution. They are extremely light, I paid €80 for the extra set 2nd hand, and they work perfectly well, both for the tent and canoe. Happy trails Stephen!!

@@VISTATREKKER and those D4 long rails are a brilliant idea. Easy enough to pick up surely. That rolling isn’t attractive, especially on the many Irish windy roads 🙈 Minimum is the trick. That drifta fire is a great piece of kit! Happy trails and keep the content coming.

Thanks again. Drifta are mostly Australian I think, but I found they have a European section in the check republic. That’s where I got it.

By all means Barna, if you have an email address I’ll dig some pictures out. Don’t think I can’t post them here.

@@VISTATREKKER Thanks very much. I tried to put my email address here, but it seems KZfaq filtering out.

Maybe if you are on Instagram look up vistatrekker there and message me, see if that works. I tried FB messenger but there’s a lot of Barna Nagy’s there.

Glad you enjoyed it Errant. It’s a buzz rack Quattro which it turns out can be fitted with the rack section inverted. From this position I fitted the plywood floor seen in the video. There was no cutting or drilling of the rack so the process is reversible. buzzrack.com/website/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/INSTRUCTION-MANUAL-BUZZQUATTRO-2016-11-02-A5.pdf

Buzz rack also sell a specific cargo rack. I’m not sure if it’s tip-able though, either way it was not available here.

Hi Charles, yes of course. The dog stays where she is in the video which is on the folded down second row right side seat - so behind the driver in our case. Being a lurcher she takes up all the space between the drivers seat back and the front of the ARB fridge in the boot. Her safety harness goes straight onto the forward right side cargo securing point. The two kids sit centre and left seat in row 2. Then both Parents up front. The boot space is literally full to the roof, and then the cargo rack on the tow ball as shown carry’s the stuff I don’t really want inside (toilet and fuel - I don’t want a crash with either of them beside us 😄 The Annex is quite bulky to carry, there is a lighter one available that might have been easier. However I just secure that in front of the roof top tent. It basically sits straight on the roof - but it’s only canvass so does no harm. Hope that explains it Charles?

Yes thanks Really looking forward to your next adventures Charles

Hi Nik, This is where I bought mine, however the price has gone up significantly in the U.K. I think there are mainland European Howling Moon suppliers. I went for the heavy duty Annex but would recommend the lighter one. The heavy canvass one is pretty heavy to zip on and bulky to carry too. Other than that they are a beautiful heavy duty tent. www.flatdoguk.com/stargazer%2d1%2e8m%7e2400

Hi Anuroop. The drone I have is a DJI Mavic 2 Zoom. Great machine, although drone technology has come along significantly even in the short few years that I’ve owned it.

@@VISTATREKKER it was tracking you so well.. I guess you marked the car as the object to follow.. really enjoyed watching the way you created it

Thank you Anuroop. That’s correct. Highlighted the car and set it to track, but to be honest this very often does not work, or it drops the car at a tree or just because the car gets smaller. I pretty often end up multi tasking as it can be less hassle to just plan a simple vector for the drone and do it with the joystick as you drive. Just as well I’m off road 🤣 Also the auto track will only put the tracked item in the centre of the frame which is rarely the best shot.

@@VISTATREKKER I live in Dublin and I am very inspired by your video to start wild camping.. currently I don't have a very huge budget to buy a car like yours Could you please recommend a car which is really good for..camping.. I wouldn't my buying a second hand car and investing round 10k euros

@@anuroopbs I’m glad to hear you say that. This is a beautiful country but it’s expensive to travel in unless you set yourself up with some level of self sufficiency. My idea is that once you’ve bought a little gear you then feel compelled to use it, as opposed to when you think about booking a hotel and then the price stops you bothering to book and you get put off and hardly ever go. I bought my Discovery for €10k back in 2012. I’d say you can pick them up cheap enough now. Many don’t want them because they are heavy on tax unless commercial, and they are thirsty. They are also relatively complex so they do take a certain level of practical fiddling and tinkering to keep them going on into old age. Mine has 240k miles up now. There are so many variables in vehicle choice it’s hard to say, depends on how many you are traveling with, whether you actually want to go beyond the tarmac and so on. I think there is a lot to be said for doing up a small van for one or two people. Stealth camping in a lay-by is very handy but not an option available to me because my setup is a bit too obvious. In my case that’s okay, I’m usually headed for the back of someone’s field. There’s a lad on instagram who just recently rode along (and wild camped) the entire length of the wild Atlantic way on a bicycle in autumn. He had the cheapest gear that you could imagine and what looked like the richest adventure of them all. We could all take a leaf out of his book. Whatever design you come up with half the fun is the hours you spend pondering your plan, your kit and your route. Make that part of the fun. It’s also an escape of course, but a productive one. There is great satisfaction in settling down in your camp at night and smugly noting that after all your planning you are all set and will have a good nights rest despite all the bits you have forgotten 😁