Thanks guys, hope you enjoy it.
My whole life I spent countless hours reading trip reports from other travelers.
I can't describe the pleasure of reading a good expedition report on a forum or blog. Way better than a book for me.
If I can provide, at least a bit, to other what others gave to me then I'm happy
Lessons learned in day 4, first offroad day:
- You can't slow down the pace on 500km offroad days. One thing is to travel alone at your own pace, another is to have fixed distances. If you want to have time to rest and take care of the vehicle, you need to floor it
- the 300Tdi gives crazy fuel economy, on some stretches I got 7,5L/100km. Yes, that's 31 US mpg, with an expedition load, in the desert
- High (ish) speed desert is the hardest offroad driving you can imagine on your vehicle. Regular trail driving is not even close. We are talking about hours and hours of vibration, high impacts, dust, everything you can imagine
- The 90 Defender is absolutely king in the sand. The tall tires combined with "light weight" (ours was rolling at about 2600kg max) makes that, I guess. People were suffering while we were idling next to them in 2nd high gear
- We needed auxiliary lights.........
My whole life I spent countless hours reading trip reports from other travelers.
I can't describe the pleasure of reading a good expedition report on a forum or blog. Way better than a book for me.
If I can provide, at least a bit, to other what others gave to me then I'm happy
Lessons learned in day 4, first offroad day:
- You can't slow down the pace on 500km offroad days. One thing is to travel alone at your own pace, another is to have fixed distances. If you want to have time to rest and take care of the vehicle, you need to floor it
- the 300Tdi gives crazy fuel economy, on some stretches I got 7,5L/100km. Yes, that's 31 US mpg, with an expedition load, in the desert
- High (ish) speed desert is the hardest offroad driving you can imagine on your vehicle. Regular trail driving is not even close. We are talking about hours and hours of vibration, high impacts, dust, everything you can imagine
- The 90 Defender is absolutely king in the sand. The tall tires combined with "light weight" (ours was rolling at about 2600kg max) makes that, I guess. People were suffering while we were idling next to them in 2nd high gear
- We needed auxiliary lights.........
Before our last trip I did a test pack then decided I absolutely had to make some spring packers for the back to level her up. Time well spent as that extra little bit of travel has prevented quite a few bone jarring bottom outs.