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Learn how to live life on the go in a Jeep

Dan Grec teaches Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival attendees the ins and outs of the Overland lifestyle. Overlanding is living life on the go with your Jeep. Dean Shirley is doing Overland demonstrations at the festival.

Do you enjoy life on the go? Then, living overland style may be for you.

Visit the Overland Mini-Camp at the Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival to learn about the adventurous lifestyle. The display will feature Jeeps and trailers set up in full camp mode, with hands-on workshops on various overland skills.

“I enjoy life on the go, and I want others to see the excitement of this lifestyle,” said Dean Shirley, Overland instructor.

There will be several how-to clinics offered to teach about the overland lifestyle each day of the festival. Attendees can meet Dan Grec and learn how he lived out of his Jeep for two years while exploring Africa. Attendees can meet Shirley and learn the basic modifications he made to his Jeep, so that he could live life on the road.

Grec and Shirley also will explain the importance of tire pressure management and how to successfully prepare a Jeep for an Overland adventure.

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