Our adventure was inspired by folks we met while backpacking Guatemala in 2007. Since then we have learned there is an amazing amount of people young, old, families, with pets (bunnies and dogs) following their dreams and driving around the world or even just a few weeks… we have decided to post a few of them here on our site. There is an insane amount of people out there traveling and in fact we have no less then 50 blogs in my browser bookmarks… we will not post them all, but if you like one send it to us and we shall included it here.
NOTICE: After a few posts here, we decided to share our links in a more open medium so there are many more links to other adventurers at Expedition Portal a website and forum dedicated to overland travelers around the world. Please visit and join us there (Link)
First the king and queen of Overland Travel : Emil and Liliana Schmid the world record holders… they have been on the road for more than 25 years (as of 2009) on a truck very similar to ours. Their site is a little hard to navigate but well worth it.
The King and Queen of Overland Travel : Emil and Liliana Schmid with their trusty Landcruiser
Americaencitro: an Argentinean couple driving from Argentina to Alaska in their 1970 Citroen 3cv.
The little Citroen that can...
Landcruising Adventure: A Dutch couple Marijke and Coen have been driving their ’84 Diesel Landcruiser since 2003… they are really doing it the right way.
The (very cool) Landcruising logo
Pebble Pedalers: These two guys make us feel like the worst slackers ever (which we may be… at least Luis). The Pedalers are brothers Seth and Parker Berling and they are pedaling from Alaska to Argentina in order to raise awareness of and garner support for protecting the Bristol Bay Watershed from the construction of the Pebble Mine which would be the largest proposed open pit mine in North America. Please read their purposee and consider it…
The Berling Brothers, pedalers with a purpose
This is Dan’s website, we like the name “The Road Chose Me, 50,000kms of Ebb and Flow“. Dan is driving from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in a bone stock Jeep with minimal equipment. It makes us feel like we way overprepared for our little adventure and it proves that all you need to do is get up and go!
Dan showing the hood of his Jeep, where he illustrates his route on a map of the America's
Nicolas Rapp and his TransWorld Expedition. Nicolas is driving around the world in his 1996 Toyota Landcruiser (a younger sibling of our 1987 diesel Landcruiser). He is doing good time and seems to be having a good time as well, even though the Landcruiser has given him some grief now and again. We follow his website and his Twitter account.
Nicolas Rapp's 80 Series Landcruiser getting ready to cross a river. Notice the sweet Campinglab.com roof top tent 
UnURBAN is a Norwegian couple, Malin and Espen driving a 2004 Nissan Patrol. In their own words: “unURBAN is a crew of two having time off and doing fun things. Part one is a drive across North AMerica from north to south, part two is driving South America from north to south and the next parts are not yet decided.” We like them, they sound just like us!!!
WaggelAdventures are Wilma & Marcels a Dutch couple who are travelling the Americas in their decked out 23 year old IVECO truck.
Life of Saturdays or 95 Degrees South follows the adventures of Kacey and Dave as they drive through the Americas.
Completed Journeys, but still very good content for reference:
Mungo Eats Latin America: This website shares the adventures of Mungo McLean and his family, Kevin, Daniela, Sean and Sara as they drive around the Americas. UPDATE: They finished their Americas drive in May 2010, but the blog continues to thrive while they live their lives in Calgary.
The Ramblewriters: Rochelle, Nick and their dog Domino drove a first generation 4Runner from Durham, NC to Buenos Aires, Argentina and they keep a very well designed website with incredibly useful and entertaining content, one of them must be a graphic designer (a good one)
Southbound Explorers: A Canadian couple that travelled the Americas in their VW Westy
