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Off-Road Navigation Made Easy: How to Plan Your Adventure

am November 11, 2024

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The Silk Road in a VW Grand California

am August 25, 2024

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Traveling with Baby and Child: Tips for Vanlife and Overlanding

am August 14, 2024

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Using Starlink internet at vanlife direclty with a 12v power supply - for overlanding and remote working

am May 15, 2024

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Finding the Perfect Portable Power Solution: A Comprehensive Comparison

am April 03, 2024

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My desire for freedom, adventure, travel, and adrenaline!

am August 12, 2023

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Buschfunk #9: The Vlog Vanlife Travel Review

am July 16, 2023

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Ecoflow Delta2 vs DIY Battery

am June 20, 2023

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Off-Road Navigation Made Easy: How to Plan Your Adventure

Before every Off-Road Adventure, the same big challenge awaits: Planning and Navigation! The perfect app for planning and navigating off-road adventures just doesn’t exist! Although there are plenty of usable apps, the learning curve is often only worth it for commercial tour operators. As a traveler and overlanding enthusiast, I’d rather spend my rare free time (especially as a new dad!) outdoors or behind the wheel instead of spending late nights diving into route planning or learning complex navigation apps. Of course, we could just opt for pre-made roadbooks from MDMOT, 4x4Roadbooks, or Pistenkuh, or book a guided off-road tour, such as one of the sociable events offered by Five-Mountains. Since we prefer solitude and remote nature, though, pre-planned tours or group trips aren’t ideal for us. They tend to lack that touch of adventure—like the uncertainty of whether our vehicle can handle the route—and shared spots can sometimes mean crowds, noise, or litter. So, if you’re like us—

flexible Watertank or bladder for vanlife and overlanding

To be able to easy carry enough water for drinking, washing and showering is important for us travellers who likes to be able to stay off grid some days. Easy to fill, easy to store, easy to use. This is less important if you stay at campgrounds with facilityes each night. A view days ago I did detect some great ideas for water storage in our van, 4x4 or rv vehicle. An australian company did sell them over ebay. Also when the shipping from australia will cost additional cash it it should be considered for us travellers. The water bladder! Those flexible watertanks or bladder are very good for a temporary installation, it need just a minute to install or remove them. I was able to interview some people who use them since severall years. As always there are some pro and cons about such a product compared to an watertank with solid walls like I showed below. A flexible bladder tank will makes less noise, there will not water noise during driving. He is also easyer to install and remove,

Ecoflow Delta2 vs DIY Battery

Today I would like to compare how well these battery boxes perform compared to a homemade project, at least on paper. And also look at the advantages and disadvantages, not ignoring the cost side. We will compare the high-quality components with a similarly equipped Ecoflow Delta2, which we have already presented here. For the comparison, I only choose really good components, those that I would currently use for a DIY project myself. Here's my selection of components, I'm already excited! The power supply in the touring vehicle. A DIY project vs an Ecoflow Delta2 - which battery or power supply is better? 12v charger Victron Orion-Tr 12/24-10 240W for charging from the alternator 125 USD, 1.5 kg weight EDECOA 2000w inverter 12v 230v voltage converter or inverter 300 USD, 4.0kg weight 2 x solar charge controller MPPT 75/15 Victron Energy 12V 15A 200 USD, 1 kg weight Shore power charger Victron Energy 230V , 12 V/30A-3 220 USD, 1.4 kg weight 100Ah LiFePO4 battery ECO-WORTHY 1

Offroad self recovery: Waffle board and recovery tracks comparison

The Overland Journal did test severall Waffleboards and Sandladders at 2009. On the Expeditionsportal the Article is offline today - but the Youtube Video is still there. 12 Years later are many new player on the market - and most Travelers did choose those waffle boards today. Maxtrax, Tred, Aldi - and a lot cheap clones are on the market. Here is the Video of some guys who try to abuse those recovery tracks and waffle boards. They Video gives a good idea about the quality of those recovery boards. We travellers usually dont abuse our material that strong. We just want some recovery help in deep sand or mud - where most of those devices would be helpful. The Video shows us, that the more expensive recovery boards are stronger and will serve us longer. Specially the Maxtrax, Maxtrax pro and Tred Pro did a fantastic job there. It is up to you what to choose! If you like some more offroad action during your travels, we would strongly suggest a set of Maxtrax or Tred Pro: You can fin

Ford Nugget vs VW California vs Campmobil

If you take a look around on the European market today, you will find some great buses with motorhome conversions. All of them are more or less suitable for bad roads, but without a reduction gear they are not intended for rough terrain. None of them is available on the international market yet. Today I would like to take a closer look at three of them and compare them, I have chosen these vehicles: California Ocean 6.1, Ford Nugget 2021 L1, Campmobil HK 4.9. We are comparing extensions based on the VW California with different space concepts with the Ford Nugget Custom with pop-up roof (Westfalia). Image: https://www.de.ford.ch/nutzfahrzeuge/transit-custom The Ford Nugget L1 with pop-up roof has an appealing two-room concept that allows relaxed cooking without having to convert everything in the living area. The manual folding roof is also convincing with a useful width of 141 cm. Two adults can sleep comfortably there. The kitchen has a useful size and is really usable. With a hei

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