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Overlander Interview Interview date: 6 February, 2008 Location: Tecka, Argentina Wolf & Ilona Ogorek Hamburg, Germany 13 years continuous overlanding Last 7 years in South America Currently spend most of their time on remote Estancia (ranch) roads in Patagonia in the summer and along the...

I came across a 2008 buyers guide for heavy trucks, pickups and vans down here. There were lots of interesting possibilities for expedition rigs. There are a variety of models not sold in the U.S. They would be excellent candidates for building the camper pod in the U.S. and shipping it...

We spent Oct. 2003 to Oct. 2004 exploring the world via motorcycle. We did some exploration via sailboat in 2005. We spent from Sept. 2006 to June 2007 building an expedition rig to explore via four wheel overland. We tested the rig in the U.S. from June to Oct 2007. We shipped it out to...

I'll post shots of any rigs we see while we're out and about. Here's the first batch. Date: 27 June, 2007 Location: Bryce Canyon National Park Campground Chassis: Mercedes 1017 Rig Info: ex-German military chassis, custom built by small shop Owners: great couple from Germany that we've kept...

Don Green sent me a link to a campground in Cusco that takes photos of their visitors. The site is very revealing about who is overlanding and what they are using. http://home.hccnet.nl/helmie.paulissen/ Click on the "Our Guests" links on the left side.

A guy sent me these PDFs about a co-worker's parents who build a Fuso based camper: Trailer Life article http://www.hackneys.com/mitsu/docs/Fuso-Trailer-Life-1991.pdf Baja article: http://www.hackneys.com/mitsu/docs/Fuso-Baja-article.pdf

When we were building our rig I stumbled across this in the local Sears parking lot while making a run for tools. It was my first exposure to what I would loosely term, um, rustic, rigs. It did, however, open my mind to the fact that there are lots of people out there in some pretty old...

One of the things I assumed would be no trouble at all to find, and turned out to be impossible to find was a fiberglass handle, round point, short shovel. I checked all the usual suspects: Lowes, Home Depot and the local Ace, True Value retail outlets. I also checked retail and professional...

We're 9,500 miles and 101 days into testing the rig. Probably the most unusual thing to happen so far was meeting an Earthroamer on Interstate 80 in Des Moines, Iowa, of all places. We were westbound and they were eastbound. We also woke up one morning in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and found an...

New Moab Plan Available The BLM's Moab Field Office has released their Draft Resource Management Plan (DRMP) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). The combined document is available for download at: http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/moab/planning.html. BLM is taking comment until...

I received an email from a guy in Ireland who stumbled across our travel site. He's planning to build up a Renault Kerax. I checked out their UK web site and it looks like a good chassis option for global use. They offer 4x4 and 6x6 and have a wide range of GVWs available. Might be a good...

Canon press releases on the announcements today: 1Ds MkIII 20.1 megapixel full frame: http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20070820_1dsmk3.html 40D 10.1 megapixel, live view, auto dust removal, 3" display, etc.: http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20070820_40d.html

30 July, 2007 Hitt Wash Santa Maria Mountains Northwest Arizona, USA The white Toyota Tacoma pickup slowly moved into the water, dipping its front wheels in gradually and proceeding until the rears were also half submerged. It paused on the river’s shelf with the water in the slack side pool...

I don't know anything about this listing, a friend sent me the link: http://sandiego.craigslist.org/rvs/369155267.html

We came across this rig in Bryce Canyon NP. It is piloted by a very pleasant couple, Elke and Axel, from Freiburg, Germany. Axel told me the chassis is a 26 year old ex-German Army truck. It is a 4x4 chassis. I don't remember the GVWR Axel told me, but I believe it was >20 tons. The rig was...

Core-Trax makes a very cool, T-6 aluminum track / tie down system that is very handy for anything you'd want to mount anywhere around a pickup bed, etc. Quick Fist makes a very handy clamp for just about anything you'd want to clamp in place, such as fire extenguishers, shovels, flash lights...

The most common question we get about our rig from people who are researching these vehicles is about the 3 point pivot frame. I added a page to our web site that describes what it is, why we implemented one, and how we implemented it along with photos of our pivot frame during its phases of...

A couple of years ago my wife and I went to India, West Bengal and Bhutan. We had some logistical challenges getting our motorcycle into and out of India within the time window we had available so we rented a bike there. Our rental was an immaculately prepared Royal Enfield Bullet 500cc single...

The North American Nature Photography Association is hosting a conference 17-21 Jan in Palm Springs, CA. Details at: http://www.resourcenter.net/Scripts/4Disapi3.dll/4DCGI/events/114.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=114? We attended this conference a few years ago and found it worthwhile.

A long time ago on a trip to the North of England, my wife and I took a shot of a very funny road sign depicting two elderly people crossing the road - a warning sign of a retirement home ahead. Thus began a decade long collection of road sign photos. Here's a few of ours. Ireland New...