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Toyota T100 doing the Batopilas to Urique route through the Copper Canon, Mexico

Latest episode is out. We're Exploring around Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.

We didn't used to have to worry about it much either, but with over 7.5 billion of us roaming around the "bear in the woods technique" quickly ruins any popular area as well as anywhere down stream.

The latest installment of our adventures as we drive from California to Panama for 1 year. In this episode we are in Central Guatemala taking an unusual rout to an increasingly popular natural attraction, Semuc Champey.

This was my first time in the area, but I feel like I say that sentence with a difrent town name every time I go to Baja.

Thanks. It is helpful. I got to take a look inside the Adrift camper at expo. very cool build and a nice guy. He was very helpful as well.

From Cascada Basasichi we headed north. We didn't have a destination in mind, basically just trying to make miles. We ended up crossing the border into the USA after about 10 hours of travel. We had been out of the country for 498 days. Entering the USA was extremely easy. We used the Agua...

Batopilas was our next destination. It was a long windy decent to get there and it tool a lot of patience to avoid burning up the brakes. When we arrived we found out that there was no where to stay with secure parking. Normally that would just mean that we had to find a business that would...

Our next stop was Parque Nacional Siera de Organos. This place had some easy hikes through the awesome rock formations, clean camping, and we were the only ones camped there. We got to camp right amongst the rocks. From here we headed to the Copper Canyon. Our first stop was Guachochi, where...

From San Blas we drove up to Mazatlan, then headed inland on rout 666. aka "the devil's backbone" This is a popular road for motorcycles to drive due to the long winding climb through the mountains. We pulled off to camp in Mexiquillo. There were a bunch of trails to drive in the beautiful...

From the border we planned to retrace our path along the pacific coast, surfing our favorite spots from the south bound trip. This was going well. We got some fun surf at Barra in Oaxaca and our favorite camp/surf spot in Guerrero. Rio Nexpa in the state of Michoacan was one that I really...

So, I'm pretty well sold on the composting toilet being the best option available with regards to pooping and disposing of the poop while traveling in 3rd world environments. My only hesitations at this point are the amount of space it takes up, needing to mount it in a fixed spot where it can...

I've seen the situation I described in Indonesia, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. It is likely that a similar situation could be found in some of the other countries I've gone through, but I just didn't spend enough time in them to ever go to the dump myself. You both have a fare...

Good info. Thanks for sharing. the authors did a lot of work on the subject. My concern, however is disposing of poo when I am traveling. Tossing a bag of poo (semi-composted or not) in a public trashcan in many areas will likely end up torn apart by local street dogs. If it makes it past the...

You always have interesting contributions DiploStrat. Thanks for sharing

So why have a bowl at all? Seriously. I thought the container was exceptably strong and sealed well. If it was square instead of rectangular you could have a larger hole at the top, more storage space in the tank, easier cleanup and decrease the overall size since you would be getting rid of...

That is the exact toilet I talked about using during my last 2 month trip to Baja. Apparently it's being rebranded by various companies, but it is the exact same. I honestly prefer the composting toilet solution, but was attracted to the chem toilet for its size and theoretical simplicity. I...

It's definitely "about the trip" but my previous experience has my wife and I trying to figure out how to make some improvements to our vehicle/home that will help us better enjoy our time at camp while still being able to get down the narrow 4x4 tracks that have proven necesary to get to what...

It's an odd mix of parts during their transitional years for sure, but I think that's why I like it. It's a lot like the early 90s hilux I had, but wider with an extra 70 horse power and it was still meant to be used as a truck (Hence the larger payload capacity) as apposed to the modern...

I'm with you there. It's just confusing. Thanks for your help everyone. I was pretty into the Idea of a newer, more powerful truck, but I just can't seem to find anything that seems like an all around improvement over my T100 for my needs. I really like the size and power of the Gen2...