Around the world since june 2000

[Scott Brady]

After many days in Prescott is time to go back to the road. To get lost again. It's a beautiful feeling....

We want to thank Scott and all the people from Overland Journal and Expedition Portal who have helped us during this days, we have now a very happy 4x4 van, a very happy free cockroach with new shoes, new solar panel and new caliper....

Hope to see you again soon, far away, on the road...!!!

Safe travels my friends. Looking forward to the images and updates.

For now, here is a fun video of the Cucaracha in action!

[viajeros4x4x4]

Phil, if you want to travel south, you must learn spanish!!!

Regards from Vegas, heading to Death Valley....

[Christian P.]

Pablo/Anna,

I am glad that the team was able to help you! I wish I had been there...but I am sure we will meet soon again - please keep us posted on your progress.

[viajeros4x4x4]

Wooooowwww!!!
We love that flying toilet paper!! It is very glamourous!!! jajaja.

We have some pics from Prescott that we want to share with you all. We had a really good time there... and it was the best spa the Cucaracha had in a veeeery long time!!

You can see how much fun we had with Jeremy and the Jeeps driving on the snow, mounting brand new tires in our really old rims, the brand new caliper... and with Scott at the Overland journal HQ. (the pics from Whiskey Rd are not posted... and won't be!! jajaja),

Thanks to you all!
Big hugs!

[jdemonto]

This is an amazing story and you guys are living the life we all dream about.

Jason

[viajeros4x4x4]

Leaving for Death Valley.

10 days of solo drive thru everywhere, including Mengel Pass and Titus Canyon. We’ll follow the gps points included in spring 2007 Overland Journal magazine looking for the back road to Lippencott mine and the Racetrack…

We’ll see if that roads are as bad as the African roads…

Regards from the Free Cockroach, our Mitsubishi L300 4x4 home.

[viajeros4x4x4]

I have to recognize it. Death Valley is a great place to prepare a trip to African dry roads. It has dust, heat, small bush to prepare small fires, some lose stones, beautiful small creeks and has Mengel Pass.
That is for real men (take your hat out please).
We’ve been three hours there to make the first 7 miles from the Geologist Cabin in Stripped Butte with our 4x4. We don’t have a huge clearance so we needed to built part of the last 200 meters of the road before the pass, move a couple of big rocks and fill some holes with stones. It was tiring but it was so nice, so rewarding to be in the other side of the mountains towards Baker’s Ranch. Then, we found the big step in Goler Canyon…
Anyway, when we finished I had to promise our Free Cockroach, our Mitsubishi L300 (Delica) 4x4 where we’ve been living during the past 11 years, that it would never go thru that pass again.

Five days later we were at the entrance of Lippincott Road from the Racetrack. The previous evening I walked a couple of miles downhill and it looked quite a piece of cake (at least compared with Mengel Pass) (I take my hat out).
The next morning we woke up early, I took out the table to write and correct some pages of the new book about black Africa, and when I was sipping my first coffee I saw the right front brand new tire: it was flat.

I believe in messages from other worlds, mainly when they came from our beloved and passionate Free Cockroach (that’s the name of our 4x4 van). She abandoned us with serious breakdowns in the Sahara Desert in Sudan and in the Turkana Area in Kenya, 500 miles from the closest reliable mechanic. We slept at 4500 meters (around 14000 feet altitude) during a trip thru the highest roads in the Bolivian Altiplano and it woke up with a frozen engine…

So, this time I said: ok, you win. You made it thru Mengel Pass (I take my hat out). You’re released of going down Lippincott Road. But remember, this summer we are going to Álaska…

[viajeros4x4x4]

http://youtu.be/S8EfJjE0yIg

Is it posible to insert youtube video here?

[trailsurfer]

Thanks for the great update. Please keep it coming.

[viajeros4x4x4]

Some pics from our days in Death Valley... from the best spirit of the old west to the Butte Valley (in the Mengel Pass remember to take your hat out), the Goler Canyon, the Teakettle Junction (that's from Alice in Wonderland...!!!) and the bush mechanics...
Yes, we had to repair a flat tire and a broken vc joint with duct tape, old inner tube rubber and staples...
And the dust...

Regards from the road!