Fun free off road overland adventures

The Driving Company instructors like to go off road for fun, too — and when we do, we often invite our friends: our past students! These are not commercial trips, guided tours, or professionally guided overland training adventures. They are simply TDC instructors heading out to explore and have a good time, and inviting our former students to come along. We think of our past students as part of the TDC friend community, and you don’t charge your friends to go have fun with you. So our Fun Trips are completely free.

One reason we started these trips is that many students finish an off-road driving course excited to use their new skills, but aren’t quite sure where to go, who to go with, or whether they’re ready to head into the backcountry on their own. Our Fun Trips give you an opportunity to get out and use what you’ve learned with familiar people.

We know the route. We carry recovery gear. And you’ll be traveling with instructors and other TDC graduates who share your interest in off-road travel. All you need to do is show up prepared, put your off-road training to work, and have fun.

Most Fun Trips are 2-day off-road adventures. We typically meet at 8:30am at a designated rally point, and we wrap up early afternoon on day 2.

We announce these trips in our private Facebook group, which is reserved for anyone who has attended one of our courses. You must have completed one of our courses to join the group.  This way, we know everyone coming with us knows what they are doing.  The Driving Company | Facebook 

These aren’t training classes, so there is no formal curriculum or scheduled instruction. The instructors are there to have fun right alongside you. And unlike our paid Multi-Day Overland Adventure Training, there is no tuition, no commercial guiding, and no package of included services. It’s simply an opportunity for TDC graduates to get back off road with the people they trained with.

These trips are popular, and we can only take a certain number of vehicles, so we often have to do a lottery to see who goes! Below are only some of the places we have taken our new friends on overland adventures.

Take the class. Learn the skills. Then come out and use them with us.