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We get 14 mi/US gal in our Montero in "day to day" use. On long runs at steady speeds we've achieved 16 mi/US gal, and in soft dunes consumption goes up to 10 mi/US gal (or even more if battling really soft sand). Your consumption is normal. The drop in revs is normal too, at least in our...

If only there was a Mac version.... : ( I use Garmin Connect to capture and display GPX files and the maps are good, in my view. The data are useful, and it's handy for giving others insight into travel times, speeds, elevation, and so on. If it's just a matter of giving people an idea where...

Good article - thanks for sharing - I clearly need a lot more education before I could take this type of trip on. As an aside, we just returned home from a 4000+km wander around Central Europe in a Mercedes C class Combi diesel/hybrid. I was amazed at the range - 1500km! We wwere using 5 L/100...

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I'd want to paint it a colour which would reduce the risk of being mistaken for a combatant.

Try searching for camper pop-tops in Australia. We saw lots of them, and some family members rented one in Darwin to travel with us for a week. I think this is what you're looking for.

I'm a little too busy to duplicate what you;ve already done in terms of googling, however here are some thoughts. 1) South America is a lot of countries - the answer will not be same for all of them, e.g., it's difficult to get ATs in Brazil - they protect the local tyre manufacturers, who...

Sorry to see the hiccup - I can visualise the Crisis Café as I'm writing. "Everything will be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not the end"

Just posted the next post - Yellowknife, Northern Alberta, and back to Vancouver to prepare for the next stage.

We will! We need to update the blog - we're home again now and so will post re the rest of the trip over the next few days.

Yes you're absolutely right - we did have lots of conversations, spent a fair amount of time in the area (6 days in Yellowknife alone), registered for road updates with the NWT, and learned a lot. I guess it didn't occur to us to look into this route and so while we noticed the main signs at the...

Thanks for sharing - we felt the effects of the late break-up and high water on our travels, in several places this summer. Have yet to see a musk ox .... : (

Thanks for sharing - a surprise for us. When we drove to Yellowknife and back this summer the signs still said that the road to Wha ti was a winter road. Had we know we would no doubt have wandered up the road to explore. Oh well - next time.

Depends on your way of travelling. Good points have been made by others so not much to add. A way to think of this is to think about what vehicles are being driven where you want to go and then choose a track which fits (so that you're not having to plough a new rut), a clearance which is a bit...

A key point being that on this trip one spare would have been adequate. Our "worst" recent experience was flat tyres was on a stretch of the Dempster, recently "maintained", on which we dealt with six flat tyres: 1) on a trailer - the couple were repairing it, needed no help, but we helped...

Hmm - hadn't noticed, or more correctly I assumed that the prices were lower in the south than in the north - CAD 2.40 or so in NWT, 2.30 or so in Northern Alberta, 2.20 or so in Central BC, and now 2.10 (ish) in Vancouver. We head out on the weekend to Southern BC and Alberta so we'll see how...

The "no-field-repairable" one was a hole in the tyre which was too big to repair with "jerky" - now it's true that a dedicated team with experience in taking the tyre off the rim, grinding out the interior, and putting on an internal patch could fix this puncture at the roadside, with time and...