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Hi. Thanks, will bear you in mind for sure. We have currently just been ordering car parts through Amazon and had them delivered - not much. An Air Con compressor, ABS Speed Sensor and a couple of other bits. Some of the garages have said they could order them too, presumably through the...

I write for a couple of sites whilst on the road. Truck Camper Adventure. Nimbl Vehicles. A climbing website called The Wandering Climber (check it out if you are into travel and climbing). A small piece in Overland Journal and one coming up on this very site, Expedition Portal. My latest...

We are finally on the move again. Lockdown in Colombia has eased. Movement within the country is allowed. Borders are still closed. We headed into the back country, to a place called La Peña near Abajorral. It's a climbing location so, if the rain holds, we may have a couple of climbing shots...

As you can see in our previous posts, part one of our enforced quarantine was spent Bonanza Campground in the mountains of Cauca, Colombia. One of the other overland rigs there was owned by Thomas and Alison, a French couple traveling with their three kids. Their big MAN truck with custom-built...

After we had driven the Northern part of Colombia we dropped down into the city of Cucuta and the border with Venezuela. The humanitarian crisis there is very real, but not the violent mayhem that some media might have you believe. Sure, there have been flare-ups, some major, but the general day...

March 2020: Colombia #2 and #3 - Lockdown The eagle-eyed amongst you will sport that there is currently a video 'gap' between Belize and Colombia. My tardiness in creating the Central America videos is primarily based on the fact that I only have a fairly random collection of video clips. I...

Thanks :) Two very different rigs too. Instagram is available to view on any computer, it is limited for posting but fully works for viewing through a browser: https://www.instagram.com/THISBIGROADTRIP/ We also have an Instagram feed on our website gallery page here...

Train Weight - Corrosion = Load Limit :)

December 2019: Colombia #1 - The Bridge We jump forward over a chunk of Central America, heading straight to Colombia. Mainly because I have yet to do the video for Central America and we'd just done an amazing trail to some stunning, sketchy bridges, which we got some cool footage from...

As you can probably tell from my profile picture; I am an XPCamper owner. I also wanted to just add my 2c about a couple of things mentioned in this thread so far. 1 - XP Design / Quality Control. There are some design flaws, I would say. I think that applies to every product ever made. The...

Thanks. Where did you go? I enjoyed your camper thread. Glad I am not the only one for whom leaks defy all the laws of physics!

Thanks and, very true. It was actually all the wife's idea, she has a bigger travel bug than me. By the way, that is some collection of vehicles you have! :)

True .... but if it's new it's - in theory - less likely to break down to start with. I think there it's a nice sliding scale of very old (easier to fix) a bit old (easier to find parts, easy-ish to fix) and new (less likely to break down, easy parts.) My truck is, I guess, a bit of a mix of...

Yes and no. I am no mechanic, but I have spent 2.5 years travelling to where I am now. I have never seen anyone, even in the weirdest of vehicles, get stuck. (Edit: Friends of ours with a cracked Iveco windscreen who were worried they would not be allowed to enter US waited a few months in...

July 2018 - March 2019 - Mexico & Belize A random collection of Mexico and Belize clips, dragged from folders on our desktop and thrown together for posterity. We had never planned on creating video, which is a shame. Because now we wish we'd paid more attention to capturing these stunning...

Jan 2018 - June 2018 - The USA Segment We leave Kelowna BC and head for the border. We'd been to the US South West every year, joining the other Canadian snowbirds to avoid the snow. Ironically, the snow was a major reason for why we moved to Canada in the first place! Note the U-Haul truck we...

We are James and Claire Young, an Endurance Sports Coach and Family Physician respectively. Working, running, climbing and exploring our way around the world. We left home, Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada on January 1st, 2018 in our modified Dodge Ram 3500 and XPCamper. This Big Road Trip...

Is it possible to sensationalize a mass shooting? Isn't that a bit like trying to satirize a Trump press briefing?

I have close encounters with bears wandering through my garden. Welcome to Canada. Buy a plaid shirt, grown a beard. HTFU :) (PS - Did you actually mean a fox? Like those cute little things?)