EDIT: See my adjusted route in the comments, where I skip the most dangerous parts.

I'm planning a trip from thailand to europe on my Voge DSX 650, and want to overland as much as possible. From what i understand, myanmar is in civil war and the borders are completely closed to foreigners with their own vehicles.

Also the middle east region (Afghanistan, iran, iraq) are fairly safe and the taliban will look after foreigers, but there is still a ISIS presence, especially on the backroads. Also from my understanding the india/pakistan border is closed entirely.

Is there any way to overland this route with relative safety in 2026?

Or will i be forced to bypass myanmar and pakistan/afghanistan/iran/iraq?

I've roughly mapped out my route in the image above.

Also, related question: Should i worry about parts availability for my VOGE bike? Are there any things i should bring in advance? I'm thinking of spare inner tubes, handpump/electrical pump, spare oil and air filter, chain maintanance kit and basic tools.

Girlfriend is looking at getting a Bronco. She's very experience traveling. Owned van/vanlife, 4runner, jeep, etc..

Looking for feedback from actual long time travel/owners of the bronco and pros/cons.
We just looked at a used one and she loved it. but i kept noticing odd things like trim missing.

How do these things actually hold up on the road long term w/ offroading?

EDIT:
She currently owns a 4runner TRD PRO 160k & Sprinter 2500.
NOT looking for another TOYOTA. so please stop.... We've owned 2x jeeps with over 300k. Had a taco 80k broke all the time offroad, and 4runner is NOT a solution to her issue.

This is not a daily driver.. We both WFH and travel full time.

Picking either a 2dr Bronco, 2dr jeep, or similar for travel & tow behind.

Let’s be honest, the Tesla Model X engineers never initially designed their ultimate mum mobile to overland the Americas, or did they?

95K miles, 15 Countries, 4x4 routes, I really like to explore. So why a Tesla Model X?

Tesla has never paid me to promote their products, and that’s the way I want it to be. Independent and free, keeping things as simple as possible. Posting videos about whatever is on my mind! They have been supportive by answering my questions online!

Belugita is a 2023 Tesla Model X Long Range 5 Seater that I purchased used with 100miles on the odemeter in April 2023. My Model X is still mostly stock, besides 300 Watts of custom solar on the hood and 19” rims with Falken Wildpeaks 255/55/R19 A/T tires. On a 100% charge, I can get a solid 530km of range, even pulling over 560km range through the Andes once in Chile!

I love to drive, and when I get tired on long driving days, I turn on Full-Self Driving and sit back and enjoy the view. Feels weird to say, loving to drive but having your car drive for you…

The shear ride comfort, Tesla Supercharging, lack of regular maintenance, massive interior potential and camp mode baked into the software made roadtripping across the US and Canada so fun and a breeze. None of these comforts exist or work after leaving Mexico.

South America is where new charging puzzles began. Larger distances, bureaucracies and add little no information on charging, the first week entering a new country meant a large learning curve. I haven’t been left stranded because of a bad charger, as a regular outlet is a powerful backup!

I have driven across some of the most remote regions in the world, and most people driving the Americas do the same. Sure, charging sometimes is a bit of a puzzle, but the unique connections I have been able to make through the car is worthwhile for me.

Most vehicles overlanding the Americas are one offs, heavily modified rigs to roam into the unknown. I feel like my Model X fits right in, just in a different form, the one no one heard coming on the trial. :).

Many people have nicknamed me ‘El Chico de el futuro’, translating to, “The Boy from the Future’, which feels right in someway. I have seen cars here in the Americas that are way older than myself….so the nickname does feel fitting!

I am amazed on how well my Model X has held up…which just shows that the ultimate mum mobile is build tough by the engineers, doing things it might have never been designed for.

I also don’t carry a spare tire with me. The secret is to collect nails you find on the street and put them in a small ziplock and carry it around😉. We all have our own tolerance for risk right?

I am loving Reddit because I feel like my thoughts can come together and people can chime in. Comments, questions, concerns, write them below!

Sandro & Belugita 📍Argentina

SO. I wanted to drive through Asia. I’ve been on the road since may. And currently in Greece again, waiting 2 months for the Turkish no-Visa entry timer to reset. So I get 90 days in there once more. And also looking for a remote job for CAD work. Anyway. So much about the current state.

A couple of days ago I met a guy coming actually all the day back from Aserbaidschan. Because Iran was apparently impossible to pass right now and Russia too expensive and also annoying. His friends were constantly asked for documents, got their devices checked, their vehicles filtered though and also eventually turned around because Fcuk that.

The two questions here are now: is it actually a waste of time to drive all the day through turkey, Georgia and Aserbaidschan? Because it’s kind of a “dead end” right now.
And… does someone need really good technical drawings, 3D models and/or files for CNC or lasercutting parts?

Hey all,

Me and my girlfriend (both Dutch) are planning to drive from Alaska down to Patagonia, hopefully leaving in the next year. We're thinking about a year on the road.

We want to buy something over there instead of shipping from NL, budget is max 20k USD. The part we can't figure out is the paperwork. Everything we read says you need a US address to register and insure a car, and we don't have one. We've seen people mention a Montana LLC but honestly no idea if that's still the way to go.

So if you did this as a foreigner: how did you register it, who insured you and what did it roughly cost? And how did selling it at the end go? We heard Chile is the place but not sure.

Also open to vehicle tips, we're not picky as long as it doesn't give up on us high up in the Andes 😅

Thanks!

Back country road and stream crossing both lived up to the hype and warnings. Can't wait to go back!!

(The above is a visual sketch of the trip in my mind)

2027 August I’m planning to spend basically the whole month doing a road trip from Hungary all the way up to northern Scandinavia in our Toyota Land Cruiser Prado.
The rough idea is to drive through the Baltics, then north through Finland, probably using some gravel / TET-style roads where they are legal and suitable for a 4x4, maybe even drive up to the North Cape then eventually get towards the Kiruna / Abisko area. Somewhere up north I want to do one longer, expedition-like hiking + packrafting trip, probably several days, then take a bus back to the car.
After that we would head back south on a different route, probably through Sweden and maybe parts of Norway, and do some shorter hikes, overnight trips, paddling lakes, mountain areas etc. along the way.
I’ not really interested in cities or ticking off tourist attractions. The things we are looking for are:
scenic roads or road sections worth driving
remote gravel / forest roads that are legal for normal vehicles
good places for wild camping or sleeping in the car where that is allowed
good hikes, especially less crowded ones
lakes, rivers, mountains and remote areas worth making a detour for
interesting parts of Finnish Lapland, northern Sweden, Finnmark etc.
any roads or areas that are overrated / not worth the time
practical advice for travelling and camping for a month in Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Baltics
I’m used to wilderness camping and long outdoor trips, so remoteness is a positive rather than a problem. The Land Cruiser is properly set up for camping and rough roads, but the goal is not extreme off-roading or driving illegally off-road. I’m mainly interested in interesting legal roads that actually take you somewhere worth going.
I will have about a month, so I’m also interested in complete route suggestions rather than just individual places. If you have done a similar trip, I’d be very interested in seeing what route you took.
The route is still very flexible, especially the return journey, so suggestions anywhere through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, northern Sweden or Norway are welcome.
I don’t yet have a travel buddy so I see quite a high possibility going alone for this one. The only limiting factor is that my parents really want me to find someone to go with. That’s very sensible especially for the packrafting part. I’m only 18 so they would allow it but they will make it more difficult for me to go, for example they won’t give me the car if I don’t find someone. This leads me to an other question. How did you meet people you like to travel with? In my case hike/raft with because that’s the part that has any risks involved. I’m really selective with the people I spend my time and share these life changing trips with. From the current selection of individuals I know would like to come, I wouldn’t take any of them because I don’t like them enough to take with me for a month.

I am proud to announce that on July 16th, I became the first SOLO person in history to drive the FULL length of the Americas with an Electric Vehicle!

Total Duration: 747 Days
Countries: 15

Longest Wait Time to Charge: 3 days (Peru)
Fastest Charge: 35 Minutes (Chile)
Distance driven - 46,961km (29,350mi)
Windshield broken: 0
Flat tires: 0 (OMG) - No Spare
Ran out of Range: 1 (Chile - Atacama Desert)
Total energy consumed: 8,444 kWh
Ave Energy Consumption: 179.8 Wh/km (286Wh/mi)

Bribes Paid: 1 - $100 USD
Robbed: 0
Fines: 0
Breakdowns: 0
Dogs Adopted Me: 100+
Funny Police Searches : 2

The Pan-American Highway is the world’s longest highway, almost spanning the full length of North and South America. Before today, no one had yet driven from the tippy top of North America (Tuktoyaktuk) into the Darien Gap to the southern tip in South America (Ushuaia) in an electric vehicle solo - unsupported. My Model X, Beluga, was converted into the ultimate stealth overlanding rig, with a full kitchen, running water, Starlink and 300 watts of solar panels on the hood, which allowed us to roam across some of the best most remote places on Earth with confidence.

The real challenges here…border crossings, cartels, and corrupt cops, yet I embraced it all. Charging on the other hand, was quite a puzzle sometimes, being a foreigner and having very little information to go on. I discovered how far along the electric movement is and where the short comings lie…and I can say with confidence that Tesla Supercharging is the best and most reliable infrastructure out there…

I wanted to showcase that anyone with a dream can make it happen, without needing all the answers. Thank you to all the kind strangers that helped along the way, and the countless dogs that adopted us and kept guard at night!

The irony..Ushuaia currently doesn’t have any power…so this message is coming from Space, Powered by my Custom Solar Panels!

https://youtu.be/PwVQiI5j250?is=O06h3CEJylTd2V1J

UPDATE: I now have a 2nd dog and decided to buy a rooftop tent. Last picture will show the most recent

I very rarely have the opportunity to take a picture of my set up, but I am deep cleaning and figured it’s a good opportunity to share the set up that works best for me.

Maybe you all can help me improve it or get some ideas from my setup.

I have lived and worked out of this truck the last 2 years and it has been great.

2nd and 3rd row delete with Land Shark Outfitters drawers. Marine grade carpet with a very DIY extended bed platform. I also put a wooden platform that bolts into the factory 2nd row seat bolts.

The light bar and head lamp attachment pictures are just 2 mods that I use multiple times a day and are cheap to do. Extremely happy with them. Surprisingly, that light bar does not fall off. Even on the more serious trails.

Left drawer is for my clothes and toiletries. Right drawer is the kitchen.

I’ll keep updating this post with pictures of other mods I have done on the rest of the truck.

Just saw this in my inbox and I gotta say, lots of mixed feelings on this one. Really like Overland Journal and Scott Brady (and the podcast) but the general direction of Xoverland over the past ~5 years has not been something I've loved, catering way too much to the tacticool crowd.

I guess we will see how it goes? What do y'all think?

https://expeditionportal.com/xoverland-announces-overland-collective-with-overland-journal-and-expedition-portal/

Hi team! I’m trying to ship a van from UK to Australia. My setup has lifepo4 batteries and so far all the RORO shipping agents I’ve spoken to have said they can’t ship vehicles with any lithium batteries.

Has anyone had any similar experiences or ways around? Carrying 2x150ah batteries as carry-on is the “best” I’ve come up with

Driving from Tahoe to Sun Valley Idaho in about a month. Any overland trails people would recommend checking out along the way? Also any app recommendation or ways of finding these routes would be appreciated. Thank you!

I still pine for that "mystique" of thinking/feeling that I am in the middle of absolutely nowhere (which seems to diminish as I frequent a place more often).

Hello guys,

I’ve posted here few days ago to ask for tips crossing Afghanistan, so here’s the most where I talk more about my car and journey

I’ve bought a Mitsubishi Delica L400 from 1995 with some rust and oil leak issues from GB in 2019

The plan was to learn mechanic on it, fix it myself, convert it in a camper and cross Africa from Algeria to South Africa, hence the old diesel choice

But aye, life. After a lot of work done on my car to fix the rust issues and have the French plate number, Africa was unsafe again to travel, especially in the Sahel and Congo regions that I had planned.

Then I decided to learn how to ride a horse, so I went overboard and decided to aim for… Mongolia. Let’s say that I wanted to learn from the best

So I changed my conversion a bit to be more suitable for winter times, used some classic Armaflex + reflectix for insulation

And a heavy marine birch plywood for the bed and drawers. Got a friend who helped me design the interior, cut the planks and put them together ikea style

The highlights of my trip are definitely Mongolia and Georgia.

Now it’s my 220th day, 30000km from home, and I’m in Uzbekistan about to cross into Afghanistan if a few days

Feel free to ask anything !

My wife and I are planning a 2-week overland trip through Oregon and Washington starting around the 15th and are looking to meet another couple interested in joining for part of the adventure.

We’ll be traveling in our Toyota Tacoma with a rooftop tent, fridge, power station, camp kitchen, and full camping setup, so we’re completely self-sufficient and flexible with where we stay.

The plan is to explore the Oregon Coast, Olympic Peninsula, mountains, beaches, and scenic backroads while doing a mix of dispersed camping and campgrounds.

We’re easygoing, enjoy nature, road trips, campfires, hiking, photography, and meeting good people. You don’t have to join for the whole trip—even a few days would be awesome.

If this sounds like your kind of adventure, send us a message and let’s connect!

Getting ready for Africa 💪

Feel free to follow me at my Instagram: Old_Bull_Lee

The wife is graduating with her 2nd master's and wants to walk the stage. The campus is located in Manchester NH and we live in Charlotte NC. Unfortunately it'll cost us around $2400 for us both and the kids just to fly up there. So we've decided to make a fun road trip out of it and to break in my somewhat modified 4runner. She's originally from Philly and has family there, and since it's the halfway point in our trip we're gonna stop by there for a few nights.

I'm looking into the trip and need some suggestions on a place between here and PA. And another place between PA and NH.

I'm pretty set on Assateague Island/Beach to do beach camping and to take the rig on the sand. But I'm completely open to suggestions to go instead. As for the second leg (PA to NH) I have no clue yet where to go.

Please be mindful that this will be my first camping trip, and that I have 2 daughters (3 y/o and 10 month old) so family friendly if possible. Campgrounds, somewhat disperse camping depending on what camping gear I will need, extra curricular activities is a plus but not a necessity, a great view is also a plus but not a necessity.

Any suggestions? TIA! Much love.