🤷‍♂Just stumbling through life and being lucky so far...

@Woodcock Family Overland, Yes, that line echoes my deep and unspoken feelings too. I too don't want to take all my dreams to the grave. But I am still struggling to get out of the dark well and pursue my dream... 😔 But, I have a very strong hope that, I will succeed and excel, InShaAllah... 😍😎

@@Overlanding For some reason whenever I see vehicles like this, the Star Wars 'Jawas' theme starts playing in my head...

Man he is lovin it 🙏🙌

it would be my guess that not many trust fund babies take many dreams to their graves

Likewise! hope you guys are enjoying Alaska!

We definitely are. It’s amazing here! 😍

@@Overlanding Alaska? If you end up in Juneau let me know!

Sweet home and nice little fire cracker you got there well done sir. It’s not easy to find a good looking woman who would live like this 👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks a lot. :)

It happened to me. I planned my whole life to be a marine. I got hit by a pick up truck a few weeks before boot camp. It changed my life out of nowhere. I didn't even see it coming.

Moving to a country with high wages, continue living like you did when you were a student, not spending money on stuff you don't need and saving everything you can... next to being lucky that you can do all these things and find a partner who's just as stupid as you to want to do the same thing. 🤷‍♂ You don't need to be a doctor to afford this. We both had 10 years less time to work and save than somebody who hasn't studied. It's all about living small and saving as much as you can... ...and most importantly: It doesn't have to be an Excap with a Krug module... People have been doing similar things with much cheaper rigs and by no means anyhow worse. We're just lucky that we could afford it but that doesn't make the adventure in any way bigger or better.

@@Overlanding What an amazing way to explain that being a doctor doesn't mean finding a ‘money tree’ but it's hard work and smart planning. Wish you a wonderful time and hope to meet you somewhere in the world 🤩

​@@michaelkalinowski3129 Thanks Michael. Yeah as soon as you know *why* you are saving 50-70% of your income every month, it gets a hell of a lot easier to do it.

I went to a finance talk, and someone did the math that if person A started working as a UPS driver after graduating high school, and person B went straight to medical school after debt free college (which may not happen! both in the debt area and going straight into med school is less likely nowadays) - then person B will need EIGHTEEN YEARS to catch up to the net worth of person A if person B takes on full loans. Assuming both parties don't have cash cows for family, that is. So we can extrapolate that anyone who earns more than a UPS driver probably has more net earnings than a physician will have for much longer than eighteen years, especially if investment, retirement plans, etc. are planned at a young professional age. Y'all look at a doctor's salary but never think about the decades (!!) of lost wages they take on top of massive debt to get that salary. It's all rainbows when you see that salary afterwards but not the financial burden they have to take on before then. Obviously a family that can take on that burden eases things tremendously, but that would be a different conversation than by anyone just being a doctor. Point being, is that anyone, not just doctors, can afford "expensive" things if they save, prioritize, and plan accordingly. It may take longer than others, or it may not be prioritized enough to make into reality (e.g. kids, health). But that just means that this particular couple chose not to do certain things that other people chose to do, to afford this cost. Or better yet, figure out a way to achieve the same adventure without having to take on as much of a cost!

It’s much cheaper than an apartment in Switzerland. It’s all about priorities. It’s expensive for a vehicle, not really for a house.

Thanks! :)

@rick, Our ExpeditionVehicle rarely gets better than 14mpg. We rarely travel more than a hundred miles a month. Fuel is a very minor part of the budget.

Very true observation. This trend of overlanding is just another type of consumerism and status chase among the "tasteful" upper middle classes. Changing the vulgar show off-ism with luxury cars and clothes to offroad vehicles and outdoor brands that cost the same if not more.

​@@manocpjaevel You both are right. You both are probably better off staying home. . Meanwhile, we are taking our rig to the coast for a few days. After that, we may head over to the desert.

ahahahahaa

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Very high up doors, in general extremely hard to break in... and a climb through to the cab to get away quickly if need be. 🤷‍♂ Other than that: common sense not to stay in dangerous places, information of other travellers and the benefit of the doubt that people are much friendlier than we assume... at least that's our experience.

Butt what about zombies?

There will never be an electric alternative never

​@@mickdundee7604 Canadian semi-truck manufacturer EDISON MOTORS hybrid comes close. . Either acquire one of their trucks complete, or acquire one of their conversion kits for your preferred vehicle.

@elrey, 2003, we engineered our ExpeditionVehicle with 3010 (three feet wide by a foot tall) dual-pane sliders designed for a stand-still house. We mounted these at our eye-level standing inside, about eight feet above pavement. . Our rear wall is steel, with dual dead-bolts on the steel door. Semi-retired welder-fabricator here. Anything I design and build, I can compromise.

maneuver? you mean stumble... 😂

@@Overlanding They still speak better English than (P)resident Joe "Mushbrain" Biden.

​@@Overlanding Your humility is unwarranted. You did just fine.

Did you ask? Next time you see an ExpeditionVehicle, ask if you could drive it around the area. . [edited to add] lol lol lol etcetera etcetera etcetera.

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I am so literally impressed, I am literally shaking!

In the future hopefully at some point yeah. :) 🤙

you would be surprised how little diesel engines consume compared to gasoline.

@kevinbelisle7160 yes. but that is a monster of a vehicle.

In another comment he said that the truck gets 22l/100km or 10.6 mpg. That doesn't sound bad in my opinion.

@free, Our ExpeditionVehicle rarely gets better than 14mpg. We rarely travel more than a hundred miles a month. Fuel is a very minor part of the budget.

@largemarge1603 Ahh. I'd do the same. But there are no expeditions in the expedition vehicle.

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@hunter, 2003, we built our ExpeditionVehicle. Over two decades full-time live-aboard. Twenty-four months twenty-four thousand miles around South America. Alaska, Panama, all over North and Central America. Summers up rough logger tracks to remote mountain lakes. Winters on isolated Baja beaches. . We workkamp. Travel some, work some... while getting to know an area. . A stand-still house? Not interested.

He put in the work. A lot of people are just lazy.

@@jayb.8460 We both did. Couldn't have done it without Judith... but thanks anyways. 😊