San Francisco to Ushuaia in an 87 4Runner.

Guri

Explorer
Hi James.
Nice pictures and nice thread.
I'm originally from Entre Rios, Argentina and I live in LA now. I'm Guri (boy) and I can suggest places to visit, places to stay but it will be depends of the route you want to do and the time you want to spend there.
You can PM to me any time.
Guri.
 

BIGdaddy

Expedition Leader
Legit, James.

As always, thanks for the pics, the humor, and as someone said earlier, keeping very beautiful company. :)

Prayers for travel safety, surefootedness, and boringly reliable mechanical operation for the 4runner. :)
 

Larry

Bigassgas Explorer
Definitely my favorite ongoing travel adventure. James and Lauren are great photographers and know how to tell a good funny story. Very neat you two are picking up jobs along the way. Never get tired of seeing their updates here and on Facebook. Keep it up amigos!
 

FireFinder

Observer
The thought of dickhead bosses, daily commutes, and Applebees sampler platters are enough to turn my stomach. We got started searching for work.

welcome to my world buddy.

Applebees anyone? Chik-fil-a? Ok, we got 2 for Chik-fil-a and 3 for Applebees. Looks like it gonna be Applebees...



Can't wait for you guys to get back here!
 

defrag4

Road Warrior
One of my main goals before we left our apartment in Huanchaco was to finally get caught up on our perpetually lolly-gagging blog. Well... needless to say that didn't happen. In fact our blog is now hitting an almost laughable 4-month delay compared to real-time. To all my faithful readers I apologize!

If you are interested in receiving real-time updates then you should check out our facebook page at http://facebook.com/homeonthehighway

Life continued pretty normally in Huanchaco, hanging out with our buds, working, drinking beers, and watching sunsets. We really love our lives here in Huanchaco but we were starting to feel that itch to get back on the road. We finally made the decision to tell our landlord that November would be our last month in the apartment.

Just a few weeks before our departure date we got some more visitors. Jed and Megan from Adventure Americas are fellow Americans who drove their Toyota Tacoma with a Phoenix Pop-up camper all the way from Wyoming down to Peru. They too are headed to Ushaia. When they showed up to the house with 8 liters of beer and a box of wine, we knew we would soon be becoming best friends.
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We hung around the house a few days cooking, grubbing, and getting to know each other.
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One night we let it slip that we had not been camping in over 4 weeks. Fearing that they were hanging out with a bunch of sissy housecats the plan was made to go camping the next night. We jumped on Google Earth and found some nice 4x4 desert roads from Huanchaco that led out to a canyon that looked great for camping.

We headed out the next morning.
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Having a little fun in the soft desert sands
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Along the way we picked up two of Jed and Megans friends from Austrailia. The Australians flew to California, purchased two KLR 650's and headed south. We all agree they are much more hardcore than we are.
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We eventually found the perfect spot and setup camp.
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Many beers were drank, bull**** road stories swapped, and good times had by all around the fire that night.
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The next day was Thanksgiving. Them being Aussies and all; our friends had no idea what lie in store for them when we invited them to a good ol' fashion USA Thanksgiving feast.

The next day we headed up to the store to try to find a turkey. Interestingly enough... Peruvians don't celebrate Thanksgiving so it was harder to track down a Turkey than we thought. We eventually manage to find a breast and some legs. We combined the pieces into a Frankenstein turkey with 6 legs, since thats everyone's favorite part anyway. We also bought all the fixin's we could find corn, sweet potatoes, green beans, butter, etc etc. We got home and hit the kitchen.

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Our Australian friends wondering where all the butter keeps going, as I run to the store for the 3rd time to buy MORE. Oh if they only knew...
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Stuffing, Green Bean Casserole, Sweet potato pie.
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Not pictured is the turkey, but here is the aftermath of our feast. The Aussies said they had never eaten that much food in their lives.
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In the morning we waved goodbye to Adventure the Americas and started packing up the house. It took us a grand total of 1.5 hours to relocate our entire lives back into the truck. Definitely a nice perk of traveling light.
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People have been asking ask what will happen to our newly found kitten Squeakers? Well... We tried taking him out with us a few times on the road but between him throwing endless squeel fests, being scared crapless, and jumping out the window of the moving 4runner we decided he might not be fit for the hard life on the road. Lauren still wanted to take him but she agreed it wouldn't be fair to drag along the cat if it was not interested in this overlanding life of ours. It was a difficult decision to leave the little dude behind, but after the hellish week you will read about in our next post we were convinced we made the right decision.
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Goodbye Huanchaco. We hope to return someday.
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Next we head back to the Ecuadorian border yet again to renew our vehicle permits and then off to Lima to do some dog-sitting for our buddies at SprinterLife. We gave ourselves 6-days to complete this 3-day trip. Plenty of time right!?

Wrong...
 

defrag4

Road Warrior
welcome to my world buddy.

Applebees anyone? Chik-fil-a? Ok, we got 2 for Chik-fil-a and 3 for Applebees. Looks like it gonna be Applebees...



Can't wait for you guys to get back here!

lol i cant wait to come home!!1

2 for 1s baby! alabama slammers all day
 

all4you

Avid Exploerer
Wow, what an awesome expedition so far. Ive been reading this entire post for a couple days now, and I have to say I am quite envious!! This is something me and my wife have contemplated for years. I know she is going to love your travels so far, and maybe give us a push to do the same...
 

vicali

Adventurer
Awesome journey, just liked on fb to get updates!

When I sold my 86 toyota 4x4 here in BC the buyer looked it over and told me it was perfect, he was headed to Belize and wanted something good,-but not good looking.. I like to image it wheeling around the beach and jungle down there, your pics were just like I've imagined. :D
 

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