Lost World Expedition (US-Central-South America)

[lostworldexpedition]

and of course there is the best kind of food

The stuff you catch yourself! Most restaurants in Florida will cook up your catch for a nominal fee... this restaurant happens to belong to my family


You guys let me know if I am boring you with these non adventure driving pics... but I have come to terms with my love of food more than ever and my belly shows it.

[RMP&O]

Nice long range Cruiser.....Did you get the engine from Marv @ Spectre? I had an 1987 Cruiser way back in 1991, it is a great truck. Funny too but I grew up in Eugene and my TLC was sold in PDX.

I like your bolg but didn't see any details on the route you have planned for the trip. Are you shipping from Panama to Cartagena, Colombia?

[Dolomiti]

Great looking truck, and food.

[dieselcruiserhead]

Congrats Luis again on finally getting on the road. Years in the making -- it's a pleasure to see man! I'll enjoy the updates.. Make sure you stop in Puerto Escondito if possible...

[lostworldexpedition]

Thanks for the kind words

Did you get the engine from Marv @ Spectre? I had an 1987 Cruiser way back in 1991, it is a great truck. Funny too but I grew up in Eugene and my TLC was sold in PDX.

I like your blog but didn't see any details on the route you have planned for the trip. Are you shipping from Panama to Cartagena, Colombia?

We got the Landcruiser from Fernando, the owner of CampingLab and we actually purchased the diesel engine from a great guy in Portland, Oregon. He sold us the engine and then proceeded to do a great engine swap for a very reasonable amount of coinage. He tends to have an Australian engine or two laying around ready for a swap.

There is a very vague route outline here on our site, but it is not accurate and couldn't possibly be because it has changed and will change as we go (we will be posting our actual route as we go)... and yes we are shipping from Panama to Cartagena... we still are too far from that stage of our trip to know if we will ship by container or roll-on-roll-off (RORO)

Congrats Luis again on finally getting on the road. Years in the making -- it's a pleasure to see man! I'll enjoy the updates.. Make sure you stop in Puerto Escondito if possible...

Thanks for your help in getting us here Andre.

[1leglance]

Keep the post coming...even if it is just a quick pic and link to your blog so we know it was updated. Something like the "Oasis for your soul" thread here.

I agree with the Food as part of Travel thing...I find that I am willing to try so much more when I am out of country than I will at home.

If you have any time when you pass back through Phoenix, give us some notice so we can meet up. Even if it is just a quick pint somewhere.

[lostworldexpedition]

I posted this on our Facebook site, but here is the new "tailgate" awning we got this morning from Campinglab ... Fernando just got these smaller awnings in his last shipment. The only bad part is there is no mosquito netting for it yet...
(sorry for photo quality it is from my iPhone)

[lostworldexpedition]

We have not updated our blog in weeks, it seems like I post here in ExPo and on Facebook most of the time.
After spending a week longer than we expected in the Florida Keys we drove to Miami to visit our old friend Fernando (CampingLab). We spent a couple of days there and got some goodies from Campinglab
Our Plan was to head to Savannah Georgia and then back West... we really would like to hit Baja before November. Fernando was heading to Virginia to attend the Roaver Owner's Association of Virginia (ROAV) Mid Atlantic Rally... so we said: "what the hell, we will drive with you!"

Here are a couple of pics, I will start a thread in Land Rover section with all the pics...I will put a link to that thread here soon.
Our view for most of the weekend

Their view of us for the week


One of my favorite rigs

Had a great time Land Rover owners are a cool bunch (even if they did not let us drive our truck on the trails... understandable, it was a Land Rover only event)

[JackW]

Did you take the Blue Ridge Parkway route toward home?

[Lichen]

Those food pictures are anything but boring. I'm drooling all over myself.