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I left work last night with an ambition to drive 20 hours straight. I realized it wasn't going to happen, so I drove for 4 hours and found a hotel to spend the night. I slept from 1am to 5:30 am. I woke up, took a shower and left for a 16 hours drive today. I just got into Amarillo, TX, in...

My odometer when I took off for my roadtrip last night after work.

Accident on the Dempster Highway on June 14, 2024. I saw a closure online today on the Dempster Highway and called the visitor information office in Dawson City at 1-867-993-5566. They told me that there was a collision of 2 vehicles heading in opposite directions, so the highway has been...

My car is not a plug in. Yup, I got 62 mpg to the tank. I hypermile. The car is amazing in the city. It competes with the Prius in mpg numbers in the city, if you hypermile the car. My best tank of gas from this car has been 65 mpg from a whole tank of gas. Let me find that picture and post...

Great idea. But you might be a bad influence echoing the thoughts I already have in my mind after going to look at a Toyota RAV4 hybrid and a Honda CR-V hybrid. I think I should stop swiping at them online and avoid stopping at the dealership or I might walk out of a dealership with a new car...

My main concern about the Dempster is rainfall. I posted a thread on tripadvisor and someone recommend a weather app. Well, I ended up downloading a weather app and it shows there will be rainfall on one or more days on my trip on the Dempster Highway. And a single rainfall quickly turns that...

Thanks a lot for liking my trip report and making time to read it. I see we definitely share the same idea about hotels. It is truly painful to pay a lot of money for one night for a hotel only to check in very late at night and be gone by 5am the next morning. Camping is out mainly because...

Thanks a lot for this breakdown. I do like numbers like you. I use numbers in almost everything I do. It helps me easily understand and remember things since I am good with numbers. Your breakdown really makes sense and aligns with what I have been calculating already on paper. I hope I do not...

I thought about going further than Jade City, but there is no other good town to get a cheap hotel. They are all priced above $150. Sadly, my greatest expense is usually hotels. There are many places where my hotel is more than $100 a night. My trip is 30 days long. 30 days at hotels for an...

Thanks a lot for the great advice. I appreciate it very much. The main "raison d'etre" for this trip is to check off my bucket list item of driving the Dempster Highway and visiting McCatthy-Kennicott Mine. So, I plan to savor the wilderness landscape on this trip. Though I am not doing this...

It is a go. I am going to drive the Dempster Highway. My 2024 Accord Honda is in for some serious beating on that road. I have a full spare and a donut spare. So I have 2 spare tires. I will use 2 days to drive from Dawson City to Inuvik. I want to drive a lot of the road from 11pm to 6 am...

Today, I bought a full-size spare tire for my car in preparation for over 1,000 miles of hardcore dirt road at the end of June. I plan to drive the whole of the Dempster Highway in Canada throughout the night since the sun will be up for 24 hours. The risk of having a flat tire or a cracked...

Thanks a lot for the compliment. I really enjoyed my trip very well last year. It was my most memorable trip till date. But guess what? I never finished that trip and I felt sad. My sibling was visiting the US at that time so I had to cut my vacation short to rush home to spend a week with him...

Local Museum in Bandjoun. We took a 6 hours drive with 2 vehicles to cover 140 miles one way to visit our village of Bandjoun. The roads are horrible, that is why it takes 6 hours to cover 140 miles. On top of that, they have radar detectors to get people and demand they pay 25,000 frs CFA...

Random Pictures from my trip out of the country... I got to see an Arctic Truck at the Toyota dealership here in Douala, Cameroon. My first time seeing one in person and I was very impressed with the built. It looks and feels solid. A 2024 Toyota Hilux. Price: 56,000,000 frs CFA = Approximately...

Bump. If there is anybody wiling to buy all 10 Jerry Cans at one time, I can sell them all for a discount. Let me know. I can even deliver them in person up to 2 hours or 120 miles away from me. I can do a quick round trip to deliver. Let me know if interested.

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Brand NEW IN Box. Garmin DriveSmart 66 with Alexa built in. Priced to sell fast. $140 shipped.

FREE: America the Beautiful Park Pass. Expires 12/23 https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/free-america-the-beautiful-park-pass-expires-12-23.242035/ My pass expires 12/23. That is the end of this month. I am offering it COMPLETELY FREE to anybody who will genuinely use it. Please, take...