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Adventure Stories

The Adventure Stories section is full of fun and inspirational accounts from fellow truck camper enthusiasts. Do you have an interesting truck camping lifestyle? Share your story!

Adventure Stories
39 Affordable Hard Side Truck Camper Rigs

Hard side camper and truck owners prove that it’s possible to assemble a rig for under $50,000 USD / $64,216 CAD.

Adventure Stories
Thirty Years To Full-Time

Three decades in the making, Carlos Armas shares his extraordinary Ford F-550 flatbed and Northern Lite 10.2 build.

Adventure Stories
The Long-Term Full-Time Truck Camping Truth

Ten experienced full-time truck campers reveal the realities of living on the road; the good, bad, and ugly of living full-time.

Adventure Stories
The Big Full-Time Truck Camping Day

Fellow truck campers share how they went full-time, what their experience has been so far, and where their choice has brought them.

Adventure Stories
Breakdown To The Bright Side

As the Moores trekked up the Trans-Labrador Highway, their truck blew a head gasket. Buckle up!

Adventure Stories
Working From A Truck Camper

Fellow truck campers reveal how they work and make a living from the road.

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Roam Lab Truck Camping Test Bed

Lexi and Chris of Roam Lab are scientifically transforming a vintage camper into a platform for innovative ideas. For starters, their 1,100-watt solar panel system is attached with industrial strength velcro. It worked for Apollo 11. Why not an Avion C11? With little to no experience working with campers, aluminum or fiberglass, Lexi and Chris […]

Adventure Stories
Chasing a TransAmerica Dream

Jeanne peddled from Oregon to Maine. Through the 4,567-mile journey, they saw the backroads and small towns of the USA.

Adventure Stories
Two Campers Race For Burro’d Time

Amanda and Chris Repka take their Lance Camper with donkeys in tow to historic mining towns for competitive Pack Burro Racing.

Adventure Stories
Bikecamping Beats the Bonk

Extreme long-distance cycle enthusiasts, Don and Donna Metivier, use a Ford F-250 and Capri Retreat to bike through the Texas State Parks.

Adventure Stories
Stuff Happens: Keep On Truck Camping

Things can happen that threaten to stop the adventure.  The trick is to work through the challenges and keep on truck camping.

Adventure Stories
Dream Big With A Small Rig

Marcus and Cindy Larson have assembled the perfect rig to chase their truck camping dreams; no bathroom, no tanks, no complications.

Adventure Stories
Full-Timing With Jacque

Edith Horn and her mini-Schnauzer, Jacque, set out to explore in their Northern Lite. Their quest includes a lengthy bucket list.

Adventure Stories
Custom Phoenix Rises In Alaska

Nikki and Mike Potter share their incredible off-road adventures exploring in their custom Phoenix Camper. 

Adventure Stories
Jeff Johnston of RVing Today Buys A Truck Camper

After decades of access to every RV type, celebrated RV journalist and host of RVing Today, Jeff Johnston, bought a truck camper.

Adventure Stories
Readers and Rigs: The Real Deal

If you think every article needs a sensational angle, we challenge you to click this post.  Meet your fellow truck campers. 

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