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Exactly, most understand what the Pan-American is so that's what we all say we were/are doing but most who drive it chuckle when they actually end up on it.

We ended up driving a large portion of the 40, starting at the northern end. Our issue was we rarely stayed going in one direction so it wasn't uncommon to drive 4-500 miles off pavement, join the pavement to head off to a particular point of interest, then back track to pick-up where we left...

Everything stated above but instead of a standard ODBII reader we use AutoEnginuity which connects to our laptop. That allows us to run injector buzz tests etc. and also record ECM output while we are underway as needed. We also carry both an AntiGravity XP10 Micro Start and a set of jumper...

Yes. If you ever have the desire to start stepping up the difficulty in terrain it's smarter to pick-up and build out an off-road mostly rig and keep your current truck comfortable. Most use their rig as their daily driver so 95% of the miles are on pavement for daily life. While that could...

In the lower 48 we spent over a week out in the Sawtooth Recreation area of Utah, ~280 miles. We too drove the Dempster but it was before the extension to Tuk was completed so that was something around 950 miles. Longest would be in Peru but it was a complete accident. Our paper map listed a...

I'm not sure if the mini has a lanyard attachment point but on my DeLorme Inreach I have a lanyard that I use to attach to the side pocket of my backpack. Sounds more complicated than it is. I took a piece of paracord and threaded it through the loop that is sewn into the backpack's side pocket...

Wanted to add, there are forums dedicated to those on the road full time and they would be a great place for info specific for the US, Canada and Mexico.

Ha! We moved to Maryville from Mountain City this past Saturday and will be here for 3 months. We're already starting to look around for our next place but everyone keeps jacking rent up so we may end up in either NC or FL for the winter. The place we are in currently will go up by $250 per...

We didn't carry health insurance and just used the local pharmacies and doctors as needed. Several friends used World Nomads, some had no issue with claims and others did. Our major problem with the available policies at the time, probably different today, was things like snorkeling fell under...

I remember a case of an arrest in the neighboring town, around 2006...I worked for the gub-ment at the time building enterprise systems. The hubbub from all the wach-a-moles in the office was the amount of ammo the individual being arrested had. I asked a colleague what was being reported and it...

I'm sorry, the layer and level of laws/codes/ordinances is one of the major contributors of why we lack responsibility today. When we made our last big loop out west we skipped all the states on the coast due to the ridiculous rules regarding firearms and no reciprocity. We really like WA down...

357 magnum is ridiculous in price and not the easiest to come by, at least in the areas of the southeast we have been. It is slowly coming back but still at or over $1 per round. 38 isn't much cheaper. The versatility of 357 and 44 is really attractive, especially since both are available in...

For a long time before the recent boom in options, the FourWheel was the U.S. overland truck camper of choice and they have travelled all over the world. Personally, it makes a great base camp for you to still explore on foot or climb and remain in both worlds (or take up surfing, kite boarding...

We have a jack-knife sofa in our van and in a pinch I can use a tray table as a desk and work. It is slower going as I only use the laptop and forego the second monitor. It does make using the rest of the van difficult and since I don't travel alone I usually just use the tray table outside with...

On a long trip you will wear your clothes much longer than when living in a house. We have several sets we work from, such as: decent or respectable clothes for eating out, shopping or when crossing a border; driving set which is usually just a simple shirt to keep cool with the windows down and...

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We've run both AGM and Lithium fulltime, we still have the lithium bank in our rig. For a part-time rig we recommend going with AGM. You can piece together a simple system, something like a single AGM, a Victron SmartShunt, a Blue Sea Systems Automatic Charge Relay (ACR) or Battery Link, a...

It's normally having too much fun over a connectivity issue. We had a few times where we were getting messages from a bunch of family and friends that were wondering if we were OK. We had service but we were hanging with friends every day without a care in the world. Granted, we rarely uploaded...

As every year ticks by the amount of annual maintenance grows. We never understood why those that were on the road much longer than us had shipped back to their home country at some point to work on their rig, now we do. You are in a much newer vehicle so you may never have the need but around...

Next time we hit the road we're going to have a home base, hopefully a small cabin on some acreage. While we throughly loved our time on the road, once we made it back to the States it was difficult to not have a place of our own while we waited for the van. It would also be nice to have a place...