Welcome to Wagons West!

If this is your first time here, thanks for stopping by! My name is Mike and this website is dedicated to my Land Cruisers and all of my vehicle dependent travels and adventures.

Our storefront is powered by Amazon, and is tailored to vehicle dependent travel, camping, and adventure. It is still under construction, but will be getting more organized as time progresses. I have decided to pledge 25% of all profits from Wagons West to the Northwest Overland Society.

I live in western Washington, and enjoy the Pacific Northwest and beyond from the drivers seat of my 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser. I am a member of the Northwest Overland Society and the Toyota Land Cruiser Association.

This site is still under construction, but I encourage you to poke around a bit and feel free to share any feedback you might have! Many of my links are pointed to placeholder pages now, but I plan on updating them over the course of the next few weeks.

See you on the trails!

Mike

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally taken the plunge in applying bedliner to the lower section of our FZJ80 wagon.  After I ...  [read more]

Still Here

May 10, 2012
I need to organize some stuff, but there's been a few developments over the past few weeks that I haven't fully documented.  I'm afraid I've ...  [read more]

St. Patricks Day Drive

March 17, 2012
My winter quarter has just wrapped up at school and it turns out that my Spring Break starts on St. Patricks Day weekend.  With Alexis ...  [read more]

Carbon River Drive

March 8, 2012
With such awesome weather I couldn't resist leaving my research paper behind for a day and getting out to one of my favorite areas just ...  [read more]
The Northwest Overland Rally has been announced as being held just outside Leavenworth, WA on July 26-29 2012.   More information will be available here as it ...  [read more]

Wagons West Updates

February 21, 2012
  Some recent site updates: Added the "Updates" category and decided to post them :) Added new links (BlackRockOverland.com and TACODOC.com) Redesigned the logo Updated the banner with new logo ...  [read more]
This past weekend was a Northwest Overland Society trip that was geared towards familiarizing some of the new 4WD owners with proper recovery techniques and ...  [read more]

South Sound Meet & Greet

February 17, 2012
The South Sound M&G was a success, as we doubled our participation from last month and got to see some very cool rigs. The "Iron Butt" ...  [read more]
  Just wanted to throw up a friendly invite to any interested parties to our monthly meet and greet!  We shoot for the 3rd Thursday of ...  [read more]
Alexis had to work for a few hours on Saturday, so I spent a little time cleaning things up then took the Troopie out for ...  [read more]

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I Support:

  • Toyota Land Cruiser Association
  • Tread Lightly!
  • Blue Ribbon Coalition
  • Northwest Overland Society
  • IH8MUD
  • Expedition Portal
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