Oh my lord! I bought the JB Weld SteelStik and worked amazing!! Much better than the typical 2 part epoxy. I got a hole in my oil pan way out on a forest service road (way out by US standards, at least). It worked so good, I didn’t even change my oil pan for another 2 years!

He has a bunch of great videos on youtube (and two books) on his travels.  I’m just finishing his Africa book now - it’s great! Read more

Any dangerous or scary experiences?
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My response was to the guy above making baseless claims that the OP must be a trust-funder and that’s the ONLY way he could have pulled this off, where the reality is what I initially suspected: single guy living incredibly frugally to fund a multi-year break from work to travel the world. Read more

Mad respect for your responses here-it’s so cool you took the time. I like the practical measured approach you take to doing what you do. Read more

Repairs, of course. Weird experiences the car survived. Things you’ve done to make the car work for you. Finding gas or parts in the middle of nowhere...
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Yeah, I’ve had good luck in emergencies but never on anything I’m not gonna replace as soon as I get back to somewhere I can get parts. It’s not a repair, for me, it’s a ‘limp to where I can fix it.’ Read more

We had a rental Hilux suffer a transmission issue in a national park in Namibia. The mechanics came out of the woodwork at the camp we were staying at to try to fix it. Eventually an old guy who showed up in church clothes found a way to start the car in third gear so we could at least drive it back to the campsite.… Read more

Some of that is going to depend on the alloy wheels you’re talking about. A good forged wheel? Never broken one, even racing offroad. Cast wheels? Broke tons of them.  Read more

Great advise. Good to see some that time in quarantine is going to helping others who maybe thinking of doing the same. Read more

Hard to argue with success.  Read more

You’re seriously telling the guy who actually pulled it off in a Jeep without any trouble, that he did it wrong?   Read more

A secondary benefit to replacing a lot of normal consumables prior to a trip like this is you are familiar how to take it apart and put it back together, hopefully reducing the odds of something going wrong if you need to do it again in the middle of nowhere.  Things also come apart a lot easier the second time. Read more

No offense, but cross threading a basic bolt is a completely avoidable error, and this guy is obviously a better mechanic than you. Read more

Priorities man. You can save thousands a yearif you brought a sandwich for lunch instead of eating out, same shit with dinner and etc... Read more

I’ve watched all his videos over the years.  He goes through point by point on why he chose the Wrangler.  I though diesel toyota would be the way to go, but clean gasoline is way easier to get that low sulfur diesel. Read more

I’m genuinely impressed that the Jeep made it. A Wrangler wouldn’t have been anywhere near the top-10 of my vehicular choices to take on a road trip around Africa. Read more

I know you’re not really interested in any feedback, but my stock 2008 Jeep Wrangler has 318 thousand miles. I’ve replaced the brake lines, the ABS controller and performed normal maintenance. Still going strong(ish). It’s really just a drivetrain and body - doesn’t even have power windows. Read more

Good article. Interesting how well the Wrangler held up. I’d think a 4Runner would also be a good choice for this type of overlanding trip. Very few “analog” vehicles left on the market that would be easy to maintain remotely. Read more

Great article! I’m glad to hear you have had a chance to adventure on the roads of the world. Practicality seems to win over thrill-seeking. Sharing how to make a long road trip work versus the Grand Tour/Top Gear version of a roadtrip. Read more