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Great report on what was the makings of a epic journey. Granted, it was cut short...it was still quite exciting to read about your preparation for a trip of such magnitude.

What size fan is needed for drowning out sound of annoyed wife? Asking for a friend...

Did you chronicle your trip here? Would like to read it, if you did. Retired after being a diesel mechanic for 46 years, too. Maybe that's why we push pedals in our spare time...peace and quiet. Try to get 25/40 miles in each evening...well, weather permitting.

Yeah, after l posted that...figured you probably weren't trying for max speed with all that extra weight to control.

It's funny, you'd see the motorcycle overlanders on the Alcan, raining to beat the band...and l'd think...that must suck. Then l'd pass a couple folks on pedal bikes...all of a sudden, and just like that...the motorcycles didn't seem so bad.

Sick bike, did you ever feel like you needed another cog up front (smaller)?...and a taller gear? Sometimes, my diverge carbon just feels like l can never get the correct gearing with a 1X12...plus top speed is about 24mph. Would be nice to bump that up sometimes, when a tail wind or grade...

Getting started solo...take baby steps.

Interesting topic...and comments. To me, the biggest difference between a camping trip/4X4 outing and overlanding is...while overlanding...you have absolutely no schedule or itinerary. When l leave, typically, l have no idea, besides general area, of where l will end up that night/day, and...

Northern Michigan, somewhere.

Not going to lie...out of all of the areas l've solo/primitive camped...Tar Hallow, Ohio was the one that kept me awake the most. And it wasn't the black bear that walked past me at camp, was fine with that...believe it was all of the burned out meth-lab-looking-trailers on the drive in...lol...

Solo camp 99.9% of the time. Just returned a couple months ago from a 10,000 mile trip to the interior of Alaska, from southeast Michigan. Was gone five weeks, and was planning on being gone for another five or six weeks and was making my way towards Mexico...until my wife said she needed me...

Glad you explained this, thought a portal had been left open. Looks like a nice area!...and some cool rigs.

Crappy world, really? This is not my findings after traveling throughout the US and Canada. Yeah, there are crappy areas...but the world? I disagree. Plus, in a recent study...99.9999999999 percent of the population said this planet was by far the nicest out of any other they'd lived on or...

And, if you do go to Ohio...stay away from any topics that concern football...lol.

In the lower, the majority is pretty lame in my opinion. Go to the upper and head west, once you get to Marquette...things get better. North of Marquette, or Champion area, or anywhere in the Keweenaw pennisula, or the Porcupine Mountains. All these places/areas offer great...

Crying doesn't help...don't ask me how l know...lol. No, the Garmin Inreach allows you to text or email and is very reasonable. Easy to set-up and navigate, too (says the boomer). A lot of great advice so far, especially the ones that mention getting to know your rig inside and out. As far...

My thoughts exactly...spend the doe on a South America adventure...then 4K to ship to Africa...lol. If you are truely "overlanding" long term or for several months, thousands of miles from home...you want to keep it simple. No one with a half a brain puts their vehicle in a situation that can...