Ght Overland Travel Podcast

#128 - Whether you’re planning or dreaming of exploring the Pan American Highway or anywhere else for that matter; this episode is Perfect for You! A ton of great detail along with endless stories of Overland Travel from Baltimore Maryland to Peru.The extra cool thing is, this isn’t their first time doing a vehicle based, or overlanding trip. In 2015 they flew from Switzerland to the US, rented a Chevy Tahoe, traveling all over the US stopping to sleep in Walmart parking lots. Taking all the lessons learned from their US and even an Australia overland trip, they laid out a plan to return to the US tackling the Pan - AM. How they did it, all the lessons learned, experiences along the way and advice for you, is now live!This week's guests are on A Very Long Honeymoon overlanding through the Pan-AM in their converted High Top 2014 Troopy. Anouk (a business analyst) and Raphi (a construction supervisor) are super fun to chat with and learn from. Anouk also writes a detailed blog at: www.averylonghoneymoon.com / Y

#127 - Some of our favorite interviews have been from Africa. Listening to stories from the Kalahari, Lions, Tigers, Elephants, and now all the way down to centipedes. This is a fascinating episode loaded with stories from Africa! And better yet, it’s centered on a five man crew of film makers raising awareness and raising money to help support the Wildlife Rangers who are responsible for protecting the entire eco system in the most remote places in Africa. In this episode you will learn about the five man film crew who make up Tuk South. Their only means of transportation is Princes Buttercup and her unnamed little Tuk Tuk companion. Ivo and Jasper (two brothers) from Kenya Africa are natural born storytellers who are perfect for the job of raise awareness while broadcasting to the world raw day to day realities from the smallest of Africa’s villages.Be sure to follow them on social media:Instagram: @TukSouthYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TukSouthWebsite: www.TukSouth.com Our Request for you to consider

#126 - This week we have the privilege of talking with Richie and Abigail of Meat Around The World! Their Overland story started about five years ago in Switzerland when Richie who was a full-time truck driver and part-time photographer had the crazy idea of driving around the world. On October 5, 2019 with their seven month old baby Zoe, five suitcases and one-waytickets for Phoenix, AZ they said goodbye to friends and family at the Zurich airport. Now with over 1,000 days on the road, including a two day stop in jail (they didn’t collect $200 for) they kindly carved out sometime as they visit with family in Costa Rica to share their experiences and hard earned knowledge as accomplished overland travelers.More than two and a half years later; they’ve been through through the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica! Be sure to follow Meat Around The World, visit their website and absolutely take a look at their YouTube channel. All links can be found at www.ghtoverland.com

#125 - A review of how our time in Canyonland National Park was, along with a camping experience at Crystal Geyser in Utah. The stories that come from our days and experiences on the road are fun to share. Hope you enjoy!www.ghtoverland.com

#124 - If you’re planning or even thinking of going to Arches National Park, there’s a few things we’d do different on our next loop back, and that's what we review in this episode. Mistakes made, total awesome experiences had and all the things we never thought about until it was too late.BLOG Post / Show Notes & Lots More at: www.ghtoverland.com

#123 - Discussing the realities of full-time overland travel, while attempting to release podcast episodes consistently :0 How we plan to release episodes more consistently, and what you can expect moving forward.Watch our adventures on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/GHTOVERLANDLearn more about us at: https://ghtoverland.com/

#122 - Overland Expo West 2022 Review, along with updates from the road of full time overland travel living. We talk truck campers for overland travel with two experienced truck camper owners Mike and James. Fellow Hallmark Camper owners, with much more experience under their belts, share their insights and experiences. In addition we talk shortly with Matt & Molly of Hallmark, reviewing build times, starting costs, available models and more. More details are available at www.ghtoverland.com

Episode #121 - Craig and Brook of Alaska Overlander launched their full-service overland adventure business in the midst of the covid pandemic, providing fully kitted out overland vehicles for rent. As many small family run business go, they started off small with only two vehicles. With the success of their business and popularity of overland travel, they now have nine vehicles in their fleet for your next Alaska adventure.It’s strikingly obvious that Craig has years of experience in the hospitality and tourism industry. Everything about Alaska Overlander speaks volumes to the amount of thought and organization that makes up Craig and Brooks business. As simple as their ultra organized instagram account, to every question we asked, Craig had a solution.If Alaska is on your bucket list, a call, email or DM to Alaska Overlander should be your first stop. The savings in fuel cost just to get to Alaska, to the more important; saving of time! Time is that one thing we never get back, and rarely have enough of. A

#120 - Full Time Overland Travel! Those few times in our lives when our biggest dreams and goals come to fruition. All the planning, all the little hurdles along our paths of accomplishing mini goals along the way. For us it’s been a blend of surreal, a little frantic, along with a trifecta of snow, wind and hot dry dusty days. Complimented with unbelievable scenery, desert flowers of shocking beauty, sunrises, sunsets, followed by clear night sky we’ve not enjoyed for years. We’re more than delighted to share with you our new home on wheels after a roller coaster ride of small amounts of panic last December. After a little shy of 1,300 miles from Portland Oregon to Fort Lupton Colorado, we took delivery of our new pop-up truck camper, the Hallmark Victor! Hallmark is re-introducing this classic floor plan they first released in 1968. The primary distinction between the Victor and their other models is the dinette. The Victor features an East & West dinette, where all their other models are a North / Sout

#119 - When the truck is aptly named “Manfred” (think Manny the Woolly Mammoth from the Ice Age movies) you know its size is going to be massive, complemented by a fun natured side. There’s no disappointment when it comes to learning about this Dutch family of four, who’ve decided living a life outside and exploring with their two young children was the better option than running a business and chasing professional careers.In 2020 the full time exploration started, or at least that was the plan. Fleur and Mike had sold their home in the Netherlands, booked a flight to Canada, packed their bags and had Manfreds boat ride booked. Then; as we all know the world hit the brakes hard and fast in the spring of 2020, closing borders and changing travel plans for many adventure seekers. Searching for a Plan B, they loaded into their trusted Manfred and started exploring close to home in the Netherlands. As soon as boarders began to open back up they stretched Manfreds legs, overlanding further into Europe.In this epi

#118 Funny thing; one of the advantages of consistently talking with other full-time overland travelers is learning from their experiences. Case in point, this week's guests Phil and Izzy of The Gap Decaders. Teaching us the value of being intentional, doing the planning and research.We found a lot of similarities with this week's guests and enjoyed jumping back to Overlanding in Europe. Phil and Izzy spent years in the normal rat-race of life, pursuing careers and financial stability. They’ve renovated properties in their spare time, while dreaming of a different way of life. In 2018, they said goodbye to their old lives, making their dreams of full time travel a reality. They sold their house and most of their stuff, quit their jobs and bought a motorhome to road trip Europe.Although they thought they knew they might need to return to ‘real life’ after a couple of years, it was at 6 months in they realized that going back to their old lives was not what they wanted. In 2021, they swapped their motorhome

#117 - The “Panamericana” explored with a little minivan through 17 countries and 70,000 Kms from Alaska to Patagonia.Bérangère and Jorge of Destino Ushuaia are two marketing professionals that traveled the west side of the Americas (aka the Panamericana) for 18 months beginning in June 2018 through Dec. 2019. Bérangère (French) and Jorge (Peruvian/Italian) are two really easy going humans that met in New Zealand in 2015 during their Working Holiday visa experience after having traveled in South East Asia for a few months on their own. Their life as soulmates started there, and all related adventures. First, doing a road trip in the South island of New Zealand, then backpacking between Peru and Bolivia for three months in 2016. Subsequently, they relocated to Vancouver (Canada) where they started a new life. Jorge had a dream of pursuing the Panamericana and to his delight Bérangère supported his dream as they started planning and preparing themselves for overlanding the Pan-American. After about a year

Episode #116 / Logistics - Full time overland travel has all its amazing views and experiences after you’ve accomplished some kind of planning and preparation. In this case you’re most likely far beyond the dreaming, the packing and all the preliminary stuff. At this point in your overlanding trip you’ve probably spent months on the road becoming a “seasoned overland traveler”. Or you may be like us doing your final planning for what’s sure to be a Darién Gap sized logistical challenge that’s a little unsettling to leave for last minute “figuring out”. How on earth are you going to find the right people, at the right time, and not be hosed on the expense of shipping your overland vehicle from Panama to Colombia? Do you know all the little tips and tricks to making sure your precious home on wheels arrives on the other side in the same condition you left it in? Do you need a full container, a shipping buddy, roll on roll off, a crate built for your bike, are all your valuables that are too big to carry with y

#115 - Our number one necessity as overland travelers is unquestionably water. We can only survive approximately three days without water, so for us it’s at the top of the list. One of the challenges on water was the weight of carrying larger volumes, along with the space requirements. At 8.3 lbs per gallon, and the approximate need of roughly one gallon drinking water per person, per day; not considering the estimated 10.9 gallons per day the average person uses just from their household faucet, this gets out of hand quickly! Thankfully there’s a plethora of options available. Therefore, being able to store and purify water had lots of potential solutions. Our hangup was the weight of carrying large amounts of water (20 gal. +), the required space, along with being able to pump water from numerous sources, while not pumping potentially harmful water into a container, relying purely on filtering it later. Something about contaminated water from every source we ever pull from being added into a container to co

Episode #114 - An unquenchable thirst for adventure clearly runs through the veins of so many of us. Emily and Danny are no exception! After 3 ½ years of Full-Time Overland Living and 11 Countries, there’s a lot to learn from Emily and Danny, popularly known as The Vandersons.After building out their 2015 Promaster 2500 they took a similar approach to launching their overland travel adventures as we plan on. Getting warmed up and working out the bugs in the comforts of your home country. Then embarking into the Alaskan wild frontier driving the Dalton highway to the Arctic Circle.Following a chilly dip in the Arctic Ocean it’s a bone chilling u-turn, heaters on high and locked in on a somewhat permanent southernish bearing. After many challenges doused with countless epic views and adventures, we finally caught up with these two as they crossed the border from Colombia to Ecuador.In this episode Emily and Danny openly share their experiences through stories chock-full of overland travel knowledge gained from

Episode #113 The Cummins Camper vs. BajaBaja Mexico over Christmas sounds warm and delightful. Baja over the winter months of the Pacific NW sounds even better! Eric and Marisa of “The Cummins Camper” have discovered the warm weather, warm beaches, and the warm hearted nature of the people who call Baja home.The amazing pictures Eric and Marisa were posting on their instagram page had us intrigued for several reasons, however the unending sun and sand had us hooked as we kept looking outside at gray clouds and rain for way too long.We have a fun conversation with Eric in this episode after a night of binge watching their YouTube channel. It’s full of good overland travel tips and stories from their experiences in Baja. Experiences you probably only get after being broken down on the side of the road for two months.We encourage you to transport yourself to Baja as you listen to this week's episode as Eric gives us all the details on their Lance camper, his experiences with fixing their truck, finances and busi

Episode #112 Monkeys On The Road / A Family Overland AdventureImagine this: You’re on the overlanding trip you’ve dreamt of for years. You're roughly two and half years into your epic overland adventure when you start to hear about corona-virus. The country you're in closes its borders, and sets stringent rules and a curfew. Now what! What do you do? How do you react? Do you book a flight home during the small available window of time, for $1,000 plus per seat, as everyone goes into panic mode? Or do you hunker down and make the best of where you're at?As life presents its unending challenges with required decision points; It’s your turn to decide. You now need to decide what to do, and decide how to roll with the punches. It’s all part of life, and it’s surely all part of overland travel. This week's guest on the GHT Overland Podcast is author Mary Hollendoner. Mary wrote a book about their Pan American experience with her husband John and their daughter Lilly. Mary’s style of writing draws you into their t

Episode #111 - Meeting Tim and Kelsey in person is like reuniting with old friends, even when it's for the first time. It's not often such awesome people cross paths with you, and although it seems to happen more often in the Overland world, Tim and Kelsey are clearly extra awesome. Humble yet bubbling over with an energy for life, you know overlanding is good for the soul.After meeting up at the NW Overland Rally in 2019, they soon returned to South America to finish their overland adventure to Ushuaia. In this episode we talk about what it was like to reach such an epic destination, their return home as COVID set into our lives, along with their drive North to Prudhoe Bay Alaska. Of course we cover their decision to sell Goose, along with some great insights on their new rig, Dusty.Enjoy this episode packed with positive energy, insights and stories from one of our favorite overlanding couples in the universe!Dusty: 1990 Toyota 80 Series - HDJ80 with a Maltec rear living quartersHolds 65 gallons of diesel

Episode #110 - Overland Expo 2022 and Eva RupertOverland Expo has been at the top of our list for many years. Constantly hearing from so many overlanders how valuable the classes are and how amazing the experience is meeting so many amazing, like-minded people. Meeting up with old friends, while forging new, possibly life-long friendships at Overland Expo seems to be the recurring theme. Being introduced to Eva was one of those moments! Like a shot of espresso with a beautiful bouquet of wildflowers.From her outlook on life to her contagious energy, Eva Rupert is everything we imagined about Expo with a double shot of awesomeness! This episode is a real treat as she shares her experiences of overlanding, along with her love for moto, good food and all the greatness you can look forward to at Overland Expo 2022.Overland Expo West in Flagstaff Arizona May 20 - 22, 2022Overland Expo PNW in Redmond Oregon July 8 - 10, 2022Overland Expo Mtn West in Loveland Colorado August 26 - 28, 2022Overland Expo East in Arri

Episode #109 When asked "what advice would you give your five year younger selves" Courtney and Tyler nailed it with perspective and an appreciation for life that's always refreshing; "Enjoy your Life". As many of us do, we fall into the status quo, following the footsteps of our parents or those we look up to. Getting a "Good Job", marriage, a dog or two, then children; generation after generation. For some of us it takes years, sometimes decades before we come to the realization Courtney and Tyler have, early in their marriage and early in life. To Enjoy Life your way, go do all those things you spend hours thinking and dreaming about, but do it now.This week's episode is a perfect example of what can happen when you build on your strengths, remove the unnecessary clutter, along with all your other treasures that no longer serve you in pursuing your dreams. As Tyler points out; be smart with a budget and stick to it long term, it will payoff. This is so very true, and probably beyond what most people are