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Hi there - can I ask whether you had these mounted to a GX or a 4Runner? And if so, year? Thanks.

Is it June already? It has, obviously, been some time since I updated here, and many miles have passed beneath us. This, however, is not to imply we have not been busy. We're not in Mexico any more, having crossed the border at Yuma in May and migrating north to the Overland Expo, which was...

If you haven't already, go ahead and look on our website and check out the sections on Red Beauty. There's a decent amount of build information there that will at least help you get started and get the juices flowing. If you're going to start from scratch with a new truck, based on our...

Leaving Los Frailes So, we decided to finally say good-bye to this: Which, as you might imagine, is not so easy to do. We had been on the beach at Los Frailes for a few weeks and ran our supplies down to basically zero ("hey, who wants a half a cup of pancake mix and a tin of corn for...

Checking In: Los Frailes Hello All: Checking in from a dive shop in Cabo Pulmo, just north of a beach at Los Frailes where we have spent the past week enjoying our morning coffees as the local whale population frolics dramatically in the bay (as in, multiple, full breaches), floating in the...

A mighty wind... We're out of the mountains after a really remarkable turn camping on a remote little beach off the road to Agua Verde - a campsite that you can only access when the tide is out, as you have to get yourself over a rock shelf and skirt some cliffs before you find yourself...

Update time... South of Loreto All - It has been a while and we have been off the beaten path enough that getting a sound internet connection is tricky, and even when we do, download speeds are pretty anemic. A lot of our journey has been written up on our blog, rovingbugs.com, but for those...

All - I've spent years lurking here and received an enormous amount of very valuable insight and technical information, and just this summer actually put it all to work. I built up my Tacoma, quit my job, loaded up my family and we're on a trip that should take us from Brooklyn to Canada to...

Hi all - I've got a bunch of great and inspirational advice from the forums and people here over the years and, in some small way, am hoping to pay it forward. I've started a blog detailing our travels, but the short story is that I quit my job this summer, loaded my wife and two young girls...

Housing for the Indigent I'll cross post this in the thread on tent camping, but we have a new home and we're pretty excited about it... Many people considering serious overland travel have to address the following pressing issue: namely, what is the best tent to use in order to comfortably...

Baja Time Warp: 1993 This is on the website, too, but I love this story and figured I'd post here also... From Assateague, we found our way to Washington and enjoyed a terrific, prolonged stay with our close, close friends Mark and Montse and their daughter, Elena. Mark also happens to have...

Thanksgiving in Tucson We have achieved total consciousness, along the banks of the Rio Grande. A long overdue update... since my last post we worked our way from Northern Quebec (moose!) to upstate New York, went crabbing among the wild ponies of Assateague, down to Pensacola (warm!), then...

Justin - What a great looking setup you have there (and, as my wife pointed out to me, a great looking family). Very interested, will PM you for some more details within the next day. Thanks again, R.

Wow - this looks like a great set-up. We're trying to get away without a trailer at the moment, but do need a tent. If there's any chance you'd sell the tent separately, let me know. Can pick it up - we'll be in your part of the country in about a month.

All - I’m stealing a few moments to write this at Land’s End, though not the Land’s End that might jump to mind for most on this forum. I’m a mile or so from the tip of the Gaspe Peninsula, at Forillon National Park in Quebec. The Appalachian Mountains make their last stand here against the...

Hi all: Quit my job, rented out the apartment and loaded the wife and kids into the truck ready to travel to the ends of the earth only to discover that there are no family sized RTT's available in the US until some time in February when the container gets in from South Africa. Sooo... if you...

Hi guys, sorry about the delay (as ever, work intervenes)... Looked at the link to your stuff nwoods, what I really need is hardcore snow stuff. In the event you find those snowsuits, pm me. Also, PM'd you, LaOT... Thanks for the responses guys.

Attention, Fellow Parents: As you're well aware, good gear for kids is not cheap, and my girls (3 and 5 years) are growing like weeds. I can't quite bring myself to buy new stuff, because it I know it will barely last a season at the rate they're expanding, but there are not a lot of...

Another thumbs up - just back from two weeks on the road with the kids (we made it up to Fundy National Park in New Brunswick) and the monsters managed to completely destroy the potholder that comes with the Brunton Vapor cookset. I sent them an email asking if I could buy a replacement, and...

I read Born to Run, and the basic argument made all sorts of inherent sense to me so I got a pair of Five Fingers about four months ago. I'm frankly too big to run a lot (190 pounds of lean, rippling muscle...) but I do it anyway to keep myself in check, mostly running home after work during...