Recent content by Wandering by Bicycle

I failed to mention this in my previous post and I know the OP was requesting an Android based map, not paper, but the Baja Almanac has been mentioned a few times. The National Geographic maps, while not as detailed as the Baja Almanac, are probably the second best choice in paper maps for Baja...

My partner and I spent the early part of this past winter exploring the out of the way places in Baja and I posted a report here http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/139451-Off-The-Beaten-Track-in-Baja. For most of the routes we covered, including the really out of the way places, the...

An alternative to the standard, heavy tarp is the urethane-coated nylon tarp by Outdoor Products and sold at Walmart. It's lightweight, waterproof, has corner grommets, and it's only $10. I've used one for a couple of years as a tent ground cloth or shelter, depending on the night, and they're...

Overlooking Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument from Smoky Mountain Road.

I'm surprised Maninga is the only one who mentioned the need to fit into a shipping container. For an "around the world" travel rig, container shipping saves a lot of money and is much safer for the vehicle and it's contents. There are many horror stories of vehicles being damaged and broken...

Thank you. Those are Alpacka Packrafts and while they are better suited for rivers, they handle open water fine as long as there is little wind. Wind, not waves, is the true enemy of packrafts. We did use them in bays in Alaska, lakes in British Columbia and the Gulf in Mexico, even with waves...

I know what you mean, there are very few vehicles in the size range between the Land Cruiser/Land Rover and the Unimog/smaller big trucks. The Iveco and Sprinter fit the size, but lack the off road performance, are loaded with electronics, and require low sulfur diesel. For us, off road...

I remember your truck, nice setup. Yeah, the windshield is pretty broken. We took quite a few rocks, one of them fist sized, on the Dalton Highway in Alaska. We're going to replace it in Central America where they are easy to get and much less expensive. We did take the Lippencott road and...

I posted this on my website, but I've had enough people ask about the truck and it's build that I figured I'd post it here as well. It gets quite a bit of attention in the States because it's one of the Land Cruiser models that were never imported here. The base truck is a 2000, left hand...

Testing the suspension on the Mojave Road.

Disclaimer: The route described hereafter may not, currently, be legal to travel and if it is legal to travel, it may not be wise to travel. In addition, any laws that may have been broken, if they were broken, were broken unintentionally and would not have been broken if their existence was...

There are some really amazing places shown on this thread. One of my favorites that I've explored is the Jackson Sanatorium, also known as The Castle on the Hill, in Dansville NY.

I'm glad you mentioned driving the beach north of Todos Santos; I was told the beach is drivable for about 70 miles total. If so, this must be one of the longest beach drives in North America. As for the alternative route out of Agua Verde, Scott, who I met up in Tok, Alaska this spring and who...

I want to post this as as a report of the current conditions for the off-pavement routes in Baja, but I couldn't find an appropriate category to put it under. Anyway, my partner and I are currently traveling the Pan Am route south to Argentina and just finished a couple of month trip on the Baja...

As a traveler who's into photography, I use Flickr both as an online backup for my favorite photos, as well as a way to display them. A while back I was searching Flickr for overland travel groups and I noticed Overland Journal has a group, but it doesn't see much use. I've been posting to it...