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Furthur Off Road

We're always looking to travel further off the beaten trail. PanAm Highway class of 2023. We’re planning the next adventure!

We're an adventurous couple always looking to travel further off the beaten trail. With our Tacoma 'Pete' we explore the southwest United States and beyond, seeking peace and solitude in wilderness settings. Tune in to our YouTube channel for trip reports, truck build updates, and gear reviews of products that make our lives on the trail more comfortable.

07/05/2024

This post is long overdue, for a multitude of reasons. Primarily, we are busy picking up where we left off with life before our grand adventure started. Enjoy this somewhat random collection of shots.

After receiving the truck in Texas we high tailed it back to our old stomping grounds in Tucson, taking just four days to reach Arizona. The speed of travel here in the US is something we’ve had to readjust to. In Central and South America, this journey probably would have taken six or seven days at a maximum of 45 miles an hour… Interstate highway travel for us is still so scary, with everyone trying their best to minimize their trip times and maximize their productivity on the road. We’re fast and distracted here, to say the least. Nevertheless, we realized we actually needed to slow down a little, so we made stops outside Las Cruces, NM in the Organ Mountains and Bowie, AZ at the Dos Cabezas Wilderness to burn a little time. The desert welcomed us back like we’d never left.

The drive to Tucson did have a strange feeling of finality to it though. Every mile forward meant the increasing reality of jobs, finding a new home, figuring out our new place in the world as participants and not as observers.

Once we reached our old home town, all the things we loved and missed while on the road came flooding back. (Can you say, In & Out?) But we’re not staying long. The plan was always to find a new spot to be after our travels. We considered California, New Mexico, possibly even places in the Pacific Northwest, but Arizona has always just felt like home. Before Tucson, the two of us had long histories in central Arizona, so it made sense for us to start looking there.

And so begins the somewhat uncomfortable and unsettled search for new digs. Luckily, we have become adept at living with constant change, and we continue to remind ourselves that this is temporary. In a matter of months, all will be stable and good again.

12/04/2024

Holy s**t. We drove Pete away from the shipping agent’s warehouse in Houston this morning. We spent two hours undoing the chaos done by US Customs and cleaning off all the dust and mold that accumulated on all the surfaces. All items are present, and despite the giant unexpected bill of over $2500, we are really happy to have our rig back, safe and sound. Can’t believe we went all the way there and back, and all of us, including Pete are in one piece!

28/03/2024

Hi everyone! We are happy to finally release our newest video on the Tubes this Friday! We’ve been away, enjoying the remainder of our journey, but there is so much more to share. In this episode, we join the nonprofit organization De La Gente for a tour of the coffee fields below Volcán Agua near the town of San Miguel Escobar in Guatemala. We learn how organic coffee is cultivated there, watch as beans are roasted the old fashioned way, and taste the most incredible coffee either of us have ever had. Hope to see you tomorrow as we return to our Pan American Highway video series!

18/03/2024

We’re combing through all of our hard drives, SD cards, devices, and previously edited photo files, taking an absolutely mind-blowing tour of our own travels. So many moments, sights, and places that we’ve nearly forgotten to make room for the current set of ‘impressions’ as our friend Denise .de would frequently say while we were on the road together. Looking at all of this as one pile feels like a dream or something that didn’t really happen to us.

But it did.

As we mentioned in our video “At Long Last - Making it to Mainland,” we didn’t truly get the feeling that the journey had started and we were exploring new terrain until we crossed from Baja California (a place we have spent much time) to mainland Mexico. The difference between these two places is striking. A great example of just how varied all of Mexico can be in topography, climate, and wildlife.

Above all, we will remember the incredibly bold color that is present everywhere, all through Mexico. It persists in every village and city, in the clothing, the food, and of course the bright walls of homes and businesses. Scholars believe that this love of color is directly inherited from Mexico’s pre-Colombian Mayan and Aztec roots, where each color had a distinct meaning and use. We traveled through many colorful places on this trip, but none as consistently bright and beautiful as Mexico.

We have favorite countries now of course, and it feels odd somehow to say that our closest neighbor to the south tops the list for us. We thought we would be absolutely bowled over by more “exotic” locales further away (I mean, we were!) but Mexico deserves way more of our time and attention.

1. Dawn fishermen, San Blas, Nayarit
2. No Fumar!, Laguna de Santa Maria del Oro
3. Caldera lake, Laguna de Santa Maria del Oro
4. ‘Knitted Sky,’ Etzatlan, Jalisco
5. Elementary school mural, Ajijic, Jalisco
6. Street and hanging garden, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
7. through 9. Colorful buildings of Chapala, Jalisco
10. Lake Chapala view, Mismaloya, Jalisco

10/03/2024

This is a tough post for us. We are still in a state of disbelief that our Pan Am trip is done. We’re back in the USA after 16 months of travel through 14 countries. It’s been an absolutely epic journey and what feels like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain real perspective on a good chunk of our beautiful planet and the stunning variety of cultures in the latin world.

“Once-in-a-lifetime.” Sounds nice, but of course it’s not entirely true… We’ll do more international travel but maybe not the same way, knowing what this style of touring entails. Honestly, we set off on this adventure with minimal planning, far less than most of our friends we met on the way. Sounds crazy, but we assumed that this would simply be an extension of our 10 day ‘weekend warrior’ trips in the US… That the journey would reveal itself as the travel unfolded. Sometimes this served us well, other times we felt like we missed opportunities. Perfectly planned or not, there is a moment for all of us long-range ‘overlanders’ when you just have to jump in and start driving, so that’s what we did.

We’re speaking through a cloud of reverse culture shock, but being back in the States, seeing our seemingly endless wealth and our intense focus on achieving perfection in all aspects of life is at once overwhelming and disheartening. We can’t shake the feeling that life could be different here while simultaneously settling back into (and genuinely enjoying) all the myriad comforts of home. It’ll likely take weeks more before the odd sensation of confusion leaves us but our newfound objectivity will certainly remain.

Stay with us! We’re at the finale of this adventure, but we’ll be posting the best of the literal thousands of photos from the trip in the coming months. Now that we have the time, we are also beginning the massive file management effort that must happen to continue editing and uploading videos to YouTube. We are so excited to bring everyone these! See you soon!

09/03/2024

After loading our truck in a container in Montevideo to be shipped back to the States, we headed across the mouth of the Rio Plate to Buenos Aires, free of the responsibility of securing a vehicle. This meant we could get a place virtually anywhere in the city, and really enjoy our last few days in South America.

We chose the neighborhood of Palermo. It’s super hip and trendy but also has it’s quiet tree-lined streets where families reside in the ubiquitous apartment buildings that fill every city block. Palermo is the largest of the downtown barrios, so we spent hours walking the sidewalks, weaving between cafe tables, peering into shops, and admiring the incredible street art.

The list of ‘must-see sights’ in Buenos Aires is more than you could appreciate in six months, let alone the 8 days we had before our flight home. We focused on the architecture and folk art in the city - the fantastic French and Italian inspired buildings of Recoleta, and the street markets of San Telmo and Plaza Serrano. We experienced a Tango show, viewed priceless works of art at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and ate many delicious meals (finally satisfying numerous cravings we had while camped in the wild). We spent almost a full day walking around the truly unique and fascinating Cemeterio de la Recoleta, the resting place for many famous Argentines and home to some of the most incredible sculptures to be found anywhere.

Buenos Aires is without a doubt our favorite big city to date, and one we would love to return to soon.

After what felt like a quick stay, it was time to say adios to Argentina and to our PanAm adventure. We won’t feel like we’re completely ‘done’ until we get Pete back safe and sound in Houston, but for now leaving BA feels like the end of an era.

16/02/2024

Pete’s locked in a box again, ready to be loaded for the ride home. We won’t be able to let out a final sigh of relief until he’s unloaded in Texas, but it feels nice to have a break from looking after our rolling home for now. We’ll be catching a flight home after we check out Buenos Aires. This has definitely been an adventure and the trip of a lifetime, but we are ready to be back in the States, no question.

08/02/2024

What have we been up to since our wild off-grid hot springs soaking adventure? Making our way east! We exited Catamarca Province in the north and drove (and camped) through more arid Argentinian wine country to the city of Cordoba. We did not expect the sweltering heat we would find there. After one sweaty and uncomfortable night at the municipal campground, we splurged on a room closer to the city center so we could have a cool place to rest after exploring the town a little. Topping our list for sights to see was the Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Evita in the stunning Palacio Ferreyra, itself almost as interesting as the works held within. Cordoba was also where we enjoyed some of the best food we’ve had since leaving the states, but the highlight for us was the excellent room we took, which came complete with this astounding view. We’re now back at the coast in Uruguay, north of Montevideo, with no plans other than to rest and enjoy the beach and the last few days before the real work of shipping Pete begins.

05/02/2024

From Mendoza, we secured our spot for the truck in a container headed to Houston. This gave us the confidence to book a stay in Montevideo to clean and organize for the shipment, and also Buenos Aires for some sight-seeing afterward. Having that ship date out there in the future, we really didn’t know what to do with ourselves. Three weeks remained to tool around northern Argentina and enter Uruguay, our 14th country of the trip. On a random tip from some nice folks from Salta, we drove north for two arduous days of travel to Campo Piedra Pómez. This protected area contains some of the most interesting natural rock formations we’ve ever seen. Thousands of white rock ‘towers’ dominate the landscape for miles, formed by the erosion of white pumice ash. We had also heard of some beautiful and remote hot springs which we wanted to check out, further down the trail. These turned out to be the absolute highlight of the area making the long drive to reach them well worth the extra time and effort. The springs flow from these towers of salt and minerals, sometimes with spectacular colors. The setting at almost 12,000ft and tucked high in a volcanic valley was tremendous. We stayed overnight and soaked ourselves to complete contentment. Afterward, we both agreed that for us, this stretch of lonesome off road matched the popular Laguna Route in Bolivia for remoteness and sheer raw beauty. We’re so glad we made the extra effort to see this place.

21/01/2024

We did’nt post much recently from the east coast of Argentina because it’s a particularly empty landscape, at least along the Ruta 3 between Rio Gallegos and Bahia Blanca. We spent a week traveling through this section stopping to camp at municipal campgrounds along the way as they are cheap and plentiful, and tend to offer some protection from the still ever-present wind. One of these camps was in Puerto San Julian where you can see a 1:1 replica of the Viktoria, the ship sailed by Magellan himself. Further north we stopped at several points along the coast that are home to massive seal lion colonies. These have to be some of the most entertaining creatures we have spent time with on this trip and visiting with them was a highlight for us. We turned inland again at Bahia Blanca and drove a couple days northwest to stay a week in Mendoza, a city we had heard so many good things about but were unable to see on our way south. So far this place has exceeded our expectations. It’s full of stunning parks and public spaces, has grand architecture, clean and beautiful tree-lined streets, and some of the best food (and of course wine!) that you could ask for. The fountains and water features are pretty amazing too. 🇦🇷

18/01/2024

And occasionally, we score big time. Driving back west from Bahia Blanca into the agricultural heartland of Argentina toward Mendoza, we found ourselves here. This is the wilder, ‘back forty’ section of the campground near Villa Mercedes. When we arrived the owner, Daniel, gave us a full tour of the property including three separate pools, four camping areas, and three bathroom facilities. The place is huge. But when we mentioned that we needed open sky for our Starlink he showed us this spot above the river running through his backyard. Man, what a slice of heaven. We settled in, then he came to make sure we had everything we needed. We talked for at least an hour, us with as much Spanish as we could muster and frequent use of the translator. As a traveler, this is so awesome - when someone takes the time to break through the cumbersome language differences and actually let you in a little. It’s rare, mainly because locals are often afraid to try to speak to foreigners because, well, it’s awkward. We met all of Daniel’s dogs (all six!) and his two sweet cats, one of which stood watch over us the entire night. To us, this place, meeting the owner, the river, the night sounds, all of it, is as good as it gets when you’re on the road.

14/01/2024

Really enjoying some warmer temps and lush camps after so long in the Argentine Pampa. Each new camp comes complete with new pup friends, some of which are consummate professionals when it comes to extracting alimentos from short-timers such as ourselves. I love the look on this one’s face after she got a ham bite for a quick shake. Winning!

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