@bulldoginajeepwithacolt - Bulldog for short. I looked up the "Clam Site" - interesting. It's the kind of equipment that I tend to purchase.
Now about this Jeep Camping Rampage that you peruse - tell us more. How you got started, what attracted you etc. I know that you belong to a group of sorts that sounds interesting too.
So much to do....and so little time to do it all. 
Have Jeep, will travel.
I have owned two Jeep Wranglers, the current one since 1998.
I purchased the first one because of a few things, i thought it was cool, it was a convertible, reminded me of MacGyver and I could afford it. Helped that I lived /worked at the beach too!
Second Jeep was purchased new, still liked everything as my older YJ model, accept now I had the TJ with both hard and soft tops and air conditioning! I was no longer living at the beach. But needed something to get me to work and more importantly home, during severe snow storms as my occupation demanded.
The first 16 years or so it did exactly that while most other family duties, excursions and what not were delegated to the much larger family SUV 's, and we went through several.
About 5 years ago I, after making some aporopriate vehcile upgrades, along with the family we drove down to the hills and hollars of eastern Kentucky for our first Jeep Jamboree and HAD A BLAST!
Then I did a couple more different Jeep Jamborees...continuing the fun.
Then this past September I traveled up north to Vermont and participated in the Vermont Overland Rally. This was also a lot of fun and not only cheaper than the Jeep only events, but allowed all kinds of different 4WD vehicles participation. From Jeeps, Land Rovers, Pinzgauers and Unimogs with EVERYTHING in between.
Basically we travel to the organizer's farm, set up camp, then spend the weekend exploring the countryside of Vermont via the state's improved Class IV "roads" if you want to call them that. Along the way we stop at the local cheese farms, syrup makers, and my favorite, the local breweries make purxhases and then sample all the fruits of our travels later back at camp.
Basically Overlanding is travelling by vehicle along a long distance path to a certain or multiple destinations, while car camping each night at a different location along this path. Some Overland trips can be a weekend while others can be years long expeditions from Alaska to Chile and all points in between.
For the time being I have chosen to start small and just do a weekend or a week long trip with just one single point base camp that I travel away from and back to each day.
Last year I began exploring Bald Eagle State Forest, which is only about 2 hours from my house. Due to the large amount of high clearance forest roads, I take the jeep, the kids and whomever else and go explore.
I will be returning to Vermont again for the 2017 event and simply can't wait. It's a perfect time of year to be in the woods and up north. Meeting like minded folks, seeing there different vehicles in action, a plethora of camping gear and gadgets is pretty awesome to me.
I just learned all about this by reading various internet forums and watching YouTube videos about the jamborees and the Vermont Overland rallies.
The only negative that I have experienced thus far, which can be a big negative depending on the size of your bank account, is going out in purchasing more gear and equipment, lol!
I try very hard NOT to do that, but.....
