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I grew up 4wheeling to campsites or backpacking for a few days or weeks. We called it camping. I was exposed to "overlanding" when I read Graeme Bell's books about navigating South America with his kids. Since then, the wife and I started homeschooling, built up a Landcruiser and are on a...

Are there any other homeschooling families heading down the Pan Am this year that would like to caravan from Belize to Panama over 6 months? We just finished a hectic 2 months of driving back to Washington from Belize, selling our Ambo, downsizing to a Land Cruiser, outfitting it, and are now...

Good call on the Winnie. Perfect for up there. If something happens to the Jeep, you can rack up some bills quick without it. We broke down in Kansas one time. Got stuck in a Strip Mall Holiday Inn. Questionable cleanliness, nothing around, for a week waiting for parts. It was $115 a day...

The Gladiator would be absolutely perfect. I would love to have one for sure. That with a 4 wheel Camper can take you anywhere in the world for sure! The only problem is the price tag. It is literally is 3x the cost of the Frontiers I found with 15,000 miles. $40,000 is 2 years of living...

So after a year of full time travel, our family is planning to downsize before entering Central America and continuing on. We would like some input, especially if you have experience oversees. I'll start with some background information. Prior to starting this trip, we spent the previous 13...

Make sure to take a dip in Buckhorn hot springs before you return. Sent from my ATU-LX3 using OB Talk mobile app

Definately. I was surprised when I found a Trooper with 56k miles for under $6k yesterday in the states. If our family didn't need that extra 2' of storage of a Nissan Frontier short bed I would buy one. I'm just excited that I could convince the wife and kid that we sould downsize from the ambo...

We learned some very valuable lessons about vehicle size while camping with a few other travelers along Riviera Maya a week ago. The first two couples were heading towards Alaska after exploring Asia, Europe and Africa for 3-4 years. The young German couple was in a small 1998 VW minivan, the...

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Our family is full time as well but on an 8 year world trip. Prior to this, we had traveled to 20 countries over the past 13 years for a month at a time. Its always an eye opener to see the travel warnings to the US from those countries (violent crime, regular shootings, mass shootings...

Our Family is almost finished with repairs and upgrades after 5 months on the road across the US and are starting our 3 year path through Latin America to Brazil next week. We currently plan on spending 1-2 months in Baja before shipping across from La Paz to Mazatlan and spending another 4...

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Our kid having fun on the roof. Overland Expo East.

When we went full time, my wife insisted that we had a decent size box to live out of, hence the ambulance. I wanted a rooftop tent setup, but it was quickly denied. I then decided on a minimod (small box ambo), but after adding up water, tools, spares, kids books, etc, we had to go with the...

We did absolutely nothing fun with our rig today. Before heading to Mexico, we found diesel in the coolant. We were already planning to Delete the EGR, switch to Cat 1 ELC coolant, replace the oil cooler and add a coolant filter before heading towards South America. Now we had to add new...

Our family has been taking 2 one month trips for over a decade. We always spent one month on a road trip through other states and another visiting a foreign country of two. Even though we were living in an amazing place with endless recreational activities (Tahoe), the highlights of the year...

New member here from Tahoe but heading global in a couple weeks. Rented out the house, sold the cars, built up an ambo, then loaded up the family and hit the road while learning how to home school. We spent the past 5 months touring the US to get the bugs out before heading south. We're...

Spending the next 3 years exploring Latin America.