Ever wondered what eight years of full-time overlanding looks like? Well wonder no more. February 2022 is our eight year anniversary, so here’s our overlanding route map with a list of our geeky and not so geeky statistics.
So far in 2022 we’ve been mooching around the deserts of southern California, enjoying the sunshine and being shamefully slack on blog writing. A full update blog on our California dream will follow soon. In the meantime, get yourself a cuppa, sit back and have a laugh at some of these little nuggets:
– Countries: 48 🌍
– Distance: 268,904km/167,089miles
– Engine starts: 13,463 times
– Engine running: 5,956 hrs⏳
– Glow plugs on: 11,249 times = 23.4 hrs🔥
– Cooling fan on: 109,444 times = 1,389 hrs🌀
– Engine running above 2,000m: 689hrs
– DPF regeneration injections: 1,354 = 12.5hrs (using 29.4 ltrs diesel)
– Engine revolutions: 604,110,000
– Av speed: 52kph/32mph🏃
– Av engine rpm: 1,690
– New tyres: 22⚙
– Sets of skis acquired: 3 ⛷⛷⛷
– Coffee mugs: 6☕
– Cuthbert Clutches changed: 1🔧
– Border crossings: 69👮♂️
– Starlink Satellites acquired: 2📡
– Starlink registrations: 126 addresses at 175 locations
– Windscreens: 2
– Blog posts: 165 🤓
– Lockdown days: 80 in The Yukon, 134 in British Columbia 🗝
– Covid jabs: 6 (3 each)💉
– Litres of diesel used: 43,104 (av 16.1ltrs/100km, 6.2km/ltr, 17.6UKmpg, 14.6USmpg)
– RORO shippings: 4 🚢
– Arctic Circle crossings: 1 🌐
– Scariest road: F25 to Cochabamba, Bolivia😳
– Coldest night: -31C, Whitehorse, The Yukon 🥶
– Visa renewals in-country: 5 (Malawi, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Canada) ️🛃
– New teeth: 2 🦷🦷
– Boats acquired: 1 Boaty McBoatface 🛶
– Guinea Pigs eaten: 1 🐹
– Panning for gold attempts: 2
– Ounces of gold found: 0 😒
– Equator crossings: 8 🧭
– Winched self recovery: 6 👍
– Winch recovery of others: lost count👎
– Gifts offered to us for recovering a vehicle: 1 baby chimp🐒
– Highest point driven: 4,982m/16,346ft Altiplano, Chile🔼
– Lowest point driven: 282ft/85m below sea level, Death Valley, California 🔽
– Police bribe attempts: 2 (Zimbabwe, Perú) 👮
– Bribes paid: 0 😇
– ‘First Ever’: British to enter the EU from Brazil by road🇧🇷🇨🇵
– 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: close tie… gorillas, Rwanda 🦍, penguins, Antarctica 🐧and grizzlies, Canada 🐻
– Gas/propane used: 311kg (610 litres) 🔥
– Water filters used: 15 💧
– Geiger counters added to the dashboard: 1☢
– Deepest water crossing: a bit over 1m, Lencois Maranhenses, Brazil 🌊
– Instagram posts: 979 💻
– Most northerly: NWT border, Arctic Circle, Canada (N 67 02.825)⬆️
– Most southerly: Antarctic cruise (S 65 02.783) (with Cuthbert, Tierra del Fuego (S 54 58.538))⬇️
– Most easterly: S/E of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (E 039 21.708)➡️
– Most westerly: Top of the World Highway, Yukon Territory, Canada (W 140 42.643)⬅️
Here’s hoping that this time next year we can report our ‘nine year overlanding’ statistics from another continent 🤞🌏
Click here to drill down in Google maps for more detail of our overlanding route map