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Yes - one day we fixed 6 flat tyres on the Dempster - one on a trailer, one on a camper, three (simultaneously) on a pick-up, and one on our own vehicle. We used two spares (one on the camper, one on the pick-up) and fixed the rest. We had no need for more than one spare wheel/tyre on any of...

Not necessary: On this type of trip our experience is four "big trips" and lots of shorter trips (anything from a weekend to a few weeks - Botswana, RSA, Zimbabwe, North Africa, Central Africa, North, Central, and South America, Asia, Europe). On the shorter trips we've had one puncture in the...

To help calibrate your thoughts (I hope it's helpful). We wandered from Vancouver to Tuktoyaktuk and back via Yellowknife last year. It took us 60 days, however it was much more of a wander than an A to B to A trip (see map - which inlcudes a further 5 weeks Vancouver to Alberta and back). Our...

Sounds excellent! Assuming that this will be a 12-18 month trip then I'd focus on shipping your vehicle; rates were sky-high for a while but are coming down again. PS: Alaska is in the USA...

Fuel up and head out!

Probably not a popular comment, however it's far more important to hear what's happening outside the vehicle than inside - horns, sirens, tyres screeching, pedestrian warnings, engine noises, etc. In some parts of the world driving with headphones on is illegal for this reason.

10 days! That's hardly getting started! Oh well, to offer thoughts for the condition proposed: 1) Assuming we can ship our vehicle to the starting point, then perhaps Delhi-Agra-Jaipur, 2) If we have to start at home then perhaps Bogotá-Mocoa-Nueva Loja-Tulcán-Ipiales-Pasto-Mocoa-Bogotá.

I hope you have a great trip. I have to say though that 6 weeks is not long, certainly not long enough the way we travel. It's about 7000 km to Tuktoyaktuk. At the rate we generally travel this would take 30-40 days, and that's one way only. So, I think that you need to make the first part...

I take your point, however thought I'd add another 2 cents - when we bought the Montero we did look at a JK, and decided against it principally because we thought that the space and comfort would be inadequate. Compared with the Montero they are, however when we looked at buying in Canada (too...

4th generation Monteros are even better, in my view. Ours takes us everywhere and has also taken us around (and through the middle of) Australia. Thoughts: Land Cruisers are good but expensive (double the price of our Montero when we bought it), Fords are not up to the task in my view, 4...

They no longer sell the Montero/Shogun/Pajero so obviously no way to replicate with a new one, although we could look for a second-hand low mileage one, as recent as possible. We'd design a bed frame which can be moved up and down, and a lower profile refrigerator on a better slide, put in more...

Amazing - here it's 24 hours.

I prefer to travel than worry about what to call my travelling. If it's across the sea then it's seafaring, if it's in the air then it's flying, if it's on land it's whatever people want to call it.

Assuming that by "gas" you mean fuel for the vehicle and not for the stove as long as you refuel every time you can, once away from the populated areas in the southern provinces, you'll be fine. This assumes "normal" consumption - we averaged 12 L/100 km - we had a range of about 700 km and this...

Here it is in the Simpson:

Does this help? This is last summer's wandering. For details have a look through AROUND - Canada 2022 & 2023 - you'll have to scroll through the posts to find the ones which are relevant, since the blog covers our overall travel including time in Vancouver, Montréal, and Nova Scotia which are...

2015 Montero 3.8L in much of the world; Wrangler JK LWB in Canada.

Not much difference in my opinion - you should be doing routine maintenance when required, and obviously if you think an interval is coming up in the month then take care of it before leaving. For remote working, if you don't have satellite connection then fairly obviousl;y you neede to be...

Reminds me of our "Part 1" run from Chicago to Lebanon = lots of interesting stops. We'll return to cover Part 2 (and 3, 4, 5...) at some point.

General route? We'll be on the way from Vancouver to St John's between May and July, then back by October. Wondering whether there'll be somewhere where our routes might coincide.