We've always aimed at using a vehicle to get reasonably far away and then do other things from there. Sometimes we just hang out and be quiet. Occasionally avoiding the premiere tourist destinations can help facilitate that. Our equipment has been somewhat minimal as well. I'm not one who needs to be constantly entertained or distracted so we don't have portable internet, tablets, or music players beyond whatever is available on the vehicle's AM-FM radio. We don't even have a GPS unit. Maps will do. Spending a good bit of our time in real bear country, we've moved away from cooking over open fires to using a small propane stove and only purchased our first DC refer a couple of seasons back. Less is more mental space if you ask me.
I think "overlanding" means two different things depending whether you're in (most of) North America or Africa/Australia.
