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Courteneys - no question. The most comfortable shoes I've ever had. Wore them every day for ten months travelling aaround Australia - driving, walking ("hiking"), etc. Hand made in Zimbabwe!

Good advice here - some reactions. High-life jack - definitely not needed - takes up space, adds weight, can be dangerous, both in use, and as a projection on the vehicle, and also requires mounting points. A pair of bottle jacks is completely adequate. Sand ladders - good to have as a back...

OK - here's the blog for this trip - Sur América contra el reloj It may give you some ideas and raise some questions. 325 nights / 326 days 48,911 Km driven in our car, using 5781 L of gasoline 600 Km (approx) driven in a hire car (Brasilia to Goiáa and back) Lots of ferries (didn’t count...

Not in a single trip, however we've driven in Mexico off and on many times, as well as Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panamá, and have also driven many Km in Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil. In addition some years ago we did a trip around South America from Bogotá to Tierra del Fuego and back -...

Rusks - no question.

Built in (not really "recovery kit") - winch and recovery points. The "kit" - Compressor (Primary - AC-PRO Air 150, Back-up AP Everyday C36A-54), tyre repair kit, two bottle jacks, ARB sand ladders, shackles, slings, 30m climbing rope and carabiners, machete, compass, bottle of wine, opener...

Put ATs on it, figure out how you're going to sleep and eat, and you could drive to Tierra de Fuego and back in it with no problems (once borders open again...). Get out and enjoy the world!

Colombia; all of the other options involve at least one stop - MEX, SAL, a variety of airports in the USA (and for reasons which are inexplicable the USA doesn't allow transit passengers so you have to enter the USA and leave again, which makes the whole process a real pain), as well as longer...

Our current camp table - light and efficient. Our previous one, now in the living room.

AC is more or less necessary for us - the only way to get to Canada in one hop. To be fair our experience (since 1981) has been good in terms of service, however they are the second worst airline for punctuality (flight delays) out of the 27 I've been tracking (personal flights) over the last...

I hope things open up, for both of us.

We were talking yesterday (again) about this and may end up getting a solar array for the odd occasion when we're camped for more than a couple of days, or we'll take the "jackery" and charge it again once on the road, but the way we travel we don't need all three sources.

Yes - we're the same. It's very rare that we don't even start the engine for more than a day - either a game drive, a short drive to a canyone we're going to walk, whatever. In these conditions we have no problem keeping the fridge running all of the time with only the one battery. People who...

I appreciate your thinking; my point of view is that you then end up with more weight, and need more space.

...and we've spent anything up to 5 days completely remote, with only the single battery, and with no worries about draining the battery.

Hi: as long as the fridge has a "cut out" when it's drained the battery/batteries available you won't end up with a dead battery. We had three batteries on our LC80. We found that we could run the fridge (ARB) for 1 or 2 days (in hot climates) before the cut out kicked in. We now have only the...

So, yes you probably need to supplement the battery . You could use solar panels, in which case I'd think about whether you can simply use the panels to keep the main (only) battery charged, which would reduce weight and space compared with adding the "jackery". Having said this we have a...

Sounds like a great plan. I assume that your plans for part 1 include the required quarantine periods? We've been holding off on a long trip in Canada for a while now, and at present it looks as if it's not going to make sense for us, in terms of initial and inter-provincial quarantine periods...

In what climate? We run the fridge from the main (only) battery and for 2-3 days in cooler climates there's no need for any additional power source. In hotter climates (40C during the day 30C at night) then this is inadequate. We ran an extra battery on a big trip in a hot climate, really...

My first GPS was a a Garmin unit (1999) - used for capturing GPS points in the Sahara - basically to know where I was and download later to have waypoints for future travel. Still have it, somewhere... and since then have stuck with Garmin because they work, at least for our needs. We've had a...