Top 5 Experiences driving the PAN-AMERICAN Highway from Alaska to Argentina
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- I run through the top five experiences that defined my expedition when I drove 40,000 miles over 2 years through 17 countries on the Pan-American Highway!
I will never forget these as long as I live!
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Thanks for watching!
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I live 2 hours away from Yosemite National Park and am amazed at the number of people who live close and have never been .
Dan, I’m certain you have inspired countless people to put some gas in the vehicle they already own and go have a day adventure!
Thanks for another terrific video and photography.
Be safe and stay well!
Buy Dan’s books to get so much more of the feeling he just touches on in this video. His books are not just a chronology of his trips but wonderful stories of personal growth which anyone, even those who never intend to travel, will appreciate.
Thanks for the kind words!
Those were rheas not emus, but they are very similar. Thanks for sharing your amazing adventure!
Another great video Dan!
Love this video Dan. So much overlanding continent is focused on the vehicle, gear, etc. We live on such an amazingly beautiful planet. It’s all about getting out there away from the vehicle and seeing it!
You said it!
Just when the wanderlust was fading, and you release this video
Hey Dan, seriously fun couple days sledding through the Salar with you. Oh yeah, thanks for carrying my bags
Hey Rob! Great to hear from you man!!
I hope life is treating you well and you're still getting out on adventures!!
All the best my friend!
Super inspiring video. This is why I have become a patron!
I really love and share your thinking that the vehicle is a means to an end. It's not about having the biggest tires, but about using whatever tires you have to explore and discover the world around you.
Thanks, Dan, for doing what you're doing. Safe travels towards your next amazing adventure!
Wow!!! I love your enthusiasm in how you describe your story... such an inspiring life you have lived!!
Thank you so much!!
There really is nothing like getting out of your comfort zone and seeing what the world has to offer!
Awesome fotos and great adventure. Climbed the cotopaxi in 1982, didn’t reach the summit though because we got on the wrong way, but surely one of the greatest adventures in my life.
Great video again, that’s why I always bring my mountainbike with me on my travels......
Anyone wanting more context about the bolivia salt flats-atacama desert part should really pick up the first book and read it. The section where Dan goes in deep about it is wild as hell and makes the Simpson desert part of the Australia trip look like a walk in the park. After reading that I understood why Dan took like double the supplies needed when he trekked through the Simpson.
Hell, I road tripped to Vegas from Vancouver this past May and even I brought far-FAR more gas, food and water than I really needed just for that ‘in case shit is about to hit the fan’ moment.
Great stories and life lessons Dan, thanks for sharing. If you're ever run short of things to talk about in your videos, it would be neat to hear more about the fellow travelers you ran into during your travels, what their stories were and what their doing now.
I love you Dan! Thanks for sharing these stories and for the inspiration!
Reading these stories in your book was fantastic.
Good stuff, I have done the volcano is Guatemala where the boots melted the soles and the wind change choked my breathe, just liked you described. Keep it coming!
Dan, You've got me incredibly stoked to explore South America. I actually did a similar kayaking trip in Valdez in 1998, except it was just my girlfriend and I by ourselves in a rented kayak. We hired a water taxi to drop us off by the glacier and then camped and paddled our way back to Valdez over the next several days. Rained the entire time. It was at the same time, terribly miserable and fantastic.
That sounds like a REAL Alaskan experience!
Saludos Dan. This has been by far, the best video you have posted. I can't wait to head out on our adventure. You highlighted all of the places on our bucket list. Alaska. Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. Gracias for the inspiration. Ramón & René Ortiz
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love you show. Very educational, inspiring and full of great content.
Amazing Dan! Thanks!!
Very inspirational! Thank you.
Thanks for all the wonderful content each week, Dan :)
Also, the birds you saw in Bolivia are called rhea, and they are distant relatives of emus :) Look very similar though.
Interesting!
wish you all the best with the new adventure! the photos are amazing.
Thank you so much!
A great 'costs some money, but totallly worth it experience' is swimming with a whale shark in Exmouth, WA. Might want to check it out now that you're doing Australia 😉🤙
Thank You Kindly for the Amazing video...!
Great timing Dan. I just finished your first book!!!
After a few false starts, over the last few months. It took me awhile to get into it after reading the Africa volume first.
At least this one did not make me cry at the end. I think had more of a adventure in South America then Africa. Just by the way in Africa you had to keep moving. As you seemed to be more limited by time\Visas and or funds.
I could tell you were going to select these experience's. By the passion in your writing and detail with these 5 experiences.
Stay safe. I hope one day in the not to distant future see you on the road.
Cheers Gavin, I really appreciate the support and honest feedback.
They certainly were two entirely different trips. In a lot of ways the PanAm was a vacation, while Africa (ESPECIALLY West Africa) was a true Expedition - must harder in many ways, much more exhausting, much closer to "the line" more often.
I, of course, loved it!
... I also can't read the end of my second book without crying.
Excellent, just read your article in overland journal it also was great,thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
You nail the spirit of adventure!
Having recently finished reading Volume 1 of The Road Chose Me, I tried to pause and guess what moments you would choose. I got a couple right, but trying to guess really made it hit me again how much I can't wait for my own trip because I realized there were easily more than a dozen moments you could have used here that were just as amazing. Thanks again for another inspiring video Dan!
Awesome to hear, thanks for the support!
Great vid as always! I like you comments on lava, everyone forgets it’s melted rock, so still has the density of rock, even though it can flow, pretty much everything is less dense so will actually float! After you realize this any movie with lava doesn’t make sense
I still can’t believe you came back…
haha, I'm not "back"!
After that I spend three years driving around Africa, and now I'm driving around Australia.
There will be more!
Amazing number of cool pictures in there... Did you drive Van Zyl’s and go to the Marienfluss in Namibia? I would be curious to hear comparisons in terms of remoteness between that and the salt flats of Bolivia - which are definitely on my bucket list.
What a trip. US is a lil to far for me but maby some day. Cheers mate🍻
The salt flats look like Death Valley.
Dan, I hope you intend another book of your up coming adventure!
Absolutely, yes. I'm also thinking I might do a "guide" or "how-to" book with route details, gas stations, gps track logs, logistics info, etc. etc.
George Carlin spoke about "Stuff".
Dan, I'd like to know how many first aid situations you have encountered / suffered over the years and what you did to help yourself and others.
I have to say really not that many... maybe not even enough for a video!
I talk about my first aid kit here: ua-cam.com/video/_ZvxTaicHgY/v-deo.html
@@TheRoadChoseMe Thanks, cheers :-)
100% gonna do that too! 🤜🤛 🤠🐕
i am so happy you had hair cut... You look nice this way!
Thank you so much 😀
In South America, you saw rheas not emus.
Epic!
Great experiences. Surprising wildlife was not up there for you in Alaska.
After the Pan-Am I lived in the Yukon for 4 years and roamed all over the North, so maybe I'm a little numb to the stunning wildlife up there. It became an everyday thing to see bears, moose, bald eagles, catch salmon so big I needed two hands to pick them up, etc. etc.
Next time we go together!
Danger! That's your comment theme...
I wonder if Bolivia had an emu war like Australia now that I know they have them
Is your jeep Manual or Automatic? And what to you recommend for this trip and why?
I cover all of that in this one: ua-cam.com/video/2cPuDXzFvGU/v-deo.html
my turn is coming