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Hi Everyone, My New eBook is out now! In Overland Travel Essentials: West Africa – Myths, Misconceptions and Misnomers I debunk the most commonly-held myths about traveling the West Coast of Africa in your own 4x4 vehicle. I did it - you can too! As well as de-bunking the most...

Hey Everyone, After 3,538 miles in Namibia, it's time to wave goodbye to this magical country and say hello to Botswana, African country number 19! I have been told many, many great things about Bots, so I'm really looking forward to exploring the remote corners. Read about the border...

Hi All, I made a stop at the The Ju/'Hoansi Living San Museum where locals are the museum pieces, showing how their ancestors lived on the land for generations. This fascinating man told me through a translator he actually hunted giraffe with his dad with this bow and arrow when he was a boy...

Driving in is no problem.. shipping in you MUST have a Carnet. I'll get the details into wikioverland.org one of these days... -Dan

Hi All, During all the dry riverbeds I found yet another wild camp that contents for best of the entire expedition. Let me know what you think More details on the riverbeds here: http://theroadchoseme.com/riverbeds-deserts-and-wildlife After all that it was time for a change of pace so I...

Cheers! The Jeep has been holding up brilliantly. Only very minor repairs and of course routine maintenance. Now I'm in the South I'll be doing some more major work, detail on that to come soon! I have never met a Land Rover driver that has not had to do serious, serious work on the West Coast...

You won't wait for the diesel? If it really gets 30mpg, it's a must for me, even if it's auto-only. -Dan

Hi All, We've been exploring down more dry riverbeds and bumping into all kinds of wildlife. Also, this might just be the best wild camp of the entire expeidtion. Elevated above the riverbed waiting for animals to wander by! And then back to the desert Tons more pics...

Did you check what the computer was saying for mileage at 70mph? -Dan

I'm running these on my JK around Africa. They have been nothing short of brilliant on everything I have thrown at them, and are wearing extremely well after over 30k miles of hard life. I really have no need to buy anything different ever again. -Dan

Hi All, We have reached the Coast in Namibia, and I push the Jeep hard in the big dunes to get to the Sandwhich Harbor area of the Skeleton Coast! http://theroadchoseme.com/around-sandwich-harbor More: http://theroadchoseme.com/around-sandwich-harbor With the KO2s down to 10psi the Jeep did...

Hi All, It's been 18 months through 18 countries, and I'm not even half way around Afirca! How long is this going to take?!? To be honest, I don't have a firm answer. I'm terrible at predicting timelines. I'd say it's somewhere between 8-18 months more up to Egypt, but that's just a guess...

Wait a few years and get one used with ~50k miles. Just nicely broken in and you save huge off current prices. -Dan

Hey Everyone, I have been exploring the extremely remote Namib Desert in the North West of Namibia. It is absolutely spectacular. I'm wild camping every night and loving it! Tons more photos here: http://theroadchoseme.com/the-namib-desert-namibia-pt-1 -Dan

A friend works at ARB in Australia and asked if I have the single or dual in my Africa Jeep. He was happy to hear I have the single (which I love) - they get a lot of the duals in for repair. I regularly air up my 34x10.5r17 KO2s, and have even aired up a friends 37s a few times. Never a...

Hi Sleam, Is there any compensation for authors work and photographs? Cheers, -Dan

No matter what dual battery setup you have, and no matter what solar (or not) setup you have, don't power anything from the "starter" battery. Power things like coolers from the "house battery". That's what it's for. In short, don't use the factory-wired 12v outlet to run *anything* when the...

Once again taking into account inflation.... $38,000 in 2008 is $43,535 in 2017. So actually, they are exactly the same price! -Dan

AEV posted on their social they have been hard at work on the JL parts for "months", so I assume everyone has had the CAD files for a while now. There was a bumper at SEMA actually, but the guy didn't want to show the mounting hardware ;) I don't think it will be much longer before we see...

Also note inflation. The 2 door JL for $26k in 2017 dollars is the same as $22k 2007 dollars. (I use this thing all the time: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) -Dan