This week we celebrated 6 years full-time on the road and living in Cuthbert. Here’s some geeky (and not so geeky) stats from the last 6 years…

– Countries: 47 🌍
– Distance: 207,080km/128,673miles
– Engine starts: 9,974 times
– Engine runing: 4,660 hrs
– Glow plugs on: 4,109 times = 13.5 hrs
– Cooling fan on: 99,037 times = 1,276 hrs
– Engine running above 2,000m: 664hrs
– DPF regeneration injections: 998 = 9.5hrs
– Engine revolutions: 473,691,000
– Av speed: 51kph/31mph
– Av engine rpm: 1,694
– Sets of tyres: No.4 just fitted⚙️
– Sets of coffee mugs: 3 ☕
– Windscreens: 2
– Litres of diesel: 33,241 (av 16l/100km, 6.2km/l, 17.6UKmpg, 14.7USmpg)⛽
– RORO shippings: 4 🚢
– New teeth: 2 🦷
– Boats acquired: 1 Boaty McBoatface 🛶
– Guinea Pigs eaten: 1 🐹
– Equator crossings: 8 🧭
– Winched self recovery: 4 👍
– Winch recovery of others: lost count👎
– Highest point driven: 4,982m/16,346ft Altiplano, Chile ⬆️
– Lowest point driven: 282ft/85m below sea level, Death Valley, California ⬇️
– Police bribes attempts: 2 (Zimbabwe, Perú) 👮‍♂️
– Bribes paid: 0 😇
– ‘First Ever’: British to enter the EU from Brazil by road 🇲🇫🇧🇷
– Scariest road: F25 to Cochabamba, Bolivia😲
– Coldest night: -18C, Laguna Route, Bolivia🥶
– Worst night-stop: 4,800m on Chimborazo Ecuador. Not our wisest decision 🤢
– Worst border: Costa Rica to Nicaragua (Uganda to Kenya a close second) 🛂
– Best wildlife: mountain gorillas, Rwanda🦍
– Gas/propane used: 251kg (492 litres) 🔥
– Water filters used: 12 💦
– Geiger counters added to the dashboard: 1☢️
– Deepest water crossing: a bit over 1m, Lencois Maranhenses, Brazil 🌊
– Airbnb/hotel nights: 0. None. Zero. Zilch. Not once have we been even slightly tempted to abandon Cuthbert for a hotel. Only when Cuthbert was on a ship did we reluctantly have to check-in to a hotel. Home is where we park it 😎 #roundtheworld

Over the next year we’re heading from California up to Alaska and who knows where next???