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My 2p/2c If I had 3 kids I would really try to travel light. If you google "opensens" they had a doka Unimog with a really quite small camper on the rear. They left home with two kids and came back with 3 :), three years travelling, I think. That is roughly what I'd like to aim at (without the...

What are you missing???? Jeez, reread your own post will you!!! Wussiness is not covered at all, and I wish you had so I can persuade the Missus that more time in remote places is the best time you can spend! ;) Not relevant to most here, but I read somewhere iodene is no longer publically...

Hi folks, cool thread :) Does anyone have real world experience they could share regarding the internal camper temperatures having glued flexy panels on? When I got my camper it had a flat polished shiny ally roof which I thought would be ideal to reflect heat. I got up there one summers day...

Hi Sorry to hear about your loss! My wife and I were at Alaskan last week for a looksee and heard about it then :( Our current non pop camper has a D5WS Eberspacher which is fab but does require a decent amount of Ahs. I had thought getting the same heater you had would be a next step to...

Very clever design, shown on a Skoda Roomster which is a high roofed Golf sized mini MPV type thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cy3gKwirLk&feature=player_embedded http://www.swissroombox.com/swissRoomBox-home.html :)

Thank you for clarifying that Charlie! :) So, I should have just said letting air out of the tyres could lower you 200mm for a few metres on a quiet road perhaps? :)

Its also a pain in Europe, where you have a wide variety of non swappable clylinders between countries, suppliers within each country, even within the same supplier if you want to change size, with different connections, as well as LPG filling stations being non-existant in some areas, and...

Wouldn't the ghosts tend to affect the ECU etc? ;) Good luck finding your truck :)

In or Out? Living inside or out seems to be described as an easy choice just based on your preference, or vehicle size perhaps. A couple we'd chatted who have driven around about half of Africa to date scoffed at me delaying entering nice warm Morocco in Febuary because our heater was playing...

Hi My wife and I hooked up with a couple in a 130 earlier this year for some Moroccan pistes and it struggled. Personally I think Landies are cool and a 110 is a good choice, but a 130 is too big for the design. The nice 130 pictured seems jacked up enough to maybe get around the clearance...

I have somewhere got a print out maybe from a US Army manual along the lines of what is below, but as usual I can't find it when needed! So; From http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/Recovery/index.html " Once you have accurately estimated or measured the trucks loaded weight (LW) you...

News update via Atkinson Vos newsletter flyer; "We all saw it in the news several weeks ago when a British couple and their Unimog camper fell down a ravine in the South American Amazon, but recently stories about Bruce and Leslie Scott have somewhat died down. We have spoken to Bruce on the...

I agree with 2x or 3x the weight. So why not a batch of snatch blocks and a lightweight means of extending the pull? With a scenario like driving around on rough tracks on holiday I don't see the need for a big front winch at all. If you don't think you'll get through you turn round, not winch...

Hi Just a thought, but an Alaskan is 1.5m unpopped normally, and the bed height of any Mog will droop maybe 100mm or more when loaded. So depending on what tyre size the 1541mm above is based on, with a few tons of spare wheels, fluids, and camper you could be at 2900mm or maybe a bit lower...

Superb! Happy travels :)

Why do you need a windshield to drive out? I've had a Landy that was fun without, and a 150mph car that didn't have one from the dealer! Most Harley riders seem fine with decent sunnies too! A square cab Mog only has flat glass too, so one reason to take it rather than a U500 with a nice big...

If its the best truck for your trip then why do you need any other justification?! We ended up off the side of a gravel road and sunk in some soft stuff last week. A bit of too-ing and fro-ing and we were going down further so I stopped. But 3/4 of the air out of the tyres, and a little digging...

Driving convenience versus living comfort. And definitely well within whichever vehicles gross! But how big a living space do you want? The VW looks like a very short bed. There will be more places you can't get to of course, but the space in a bigger camper will pay dividends when the weather...

Sorry about that! So stupid comment if you're sticking within the US!

Like this family http://www.opensens.com/ There is, I think, only one Mog suitable tyre that is speed rated past 55mph. The standard 55mph ones are about £1000 each new in the UK (905 plus vat in Costco for instance), although unused second hand ones come up sometimes. Wether the faster ones...