Wait… 2022… over already? Where does the time go? Another overlanding year behind us. After six years driving up the Americas from Argentina, our mission of 2022 was to complete the Pan-American Highway by reaching Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. With that mission accomplished and our US visas expiring, we came to Mexico for some winter sun. What started as a round-the-world trip nine years ago has stalled a bit in North America since Covid. It’s about time we bucked ourselves up and got on with the business of circumnavigation! So now, from a series of lovely beaches in Mexico with overlanding friends, we ponder overlanding 2023 and the big question of our time: ‘Where next?’

Alaska does glaciers and stunning scenery rather well. We saw this on our tour around the south of the State. Now we’re overlanding central Alaska – the middle bit – seeing more of the same old scenic stuff and hiking to a glacier… again (yawn 😉). But wait, there’s more! In central Alaska we do some cultural stuff too: we experience our first 4^th July, watch our first Eskimo Olympics, and enjoy not a chicken pie, but a pie in Chicken….