Traveling the Pan American highway

[Next Horizon Overland]

Dear overland folks
We are Ernst & Jiew from Switzerland / Thailand and travel the Pan American from north to south

We are full time overlanders since 2022 and enjoy this gipsy life very much. At the moment, we travel through Arizona, but soon leave to Mexico as our US visa expires.

some days ago we travel through the spectacular Mojave desert here our report

Mojave Desert, Troopy Overland 4x4, Pan-American Ep57

 

[John and Mandi]

We drove the Americas north to south (2015-2019) in a 4x4 pop top van, it's a great trip. When we get a chance we'll check out some of your videos. Oh, nice looking Troopy!

 

[Alanymarce]

A personal view - stay off the actual PAH as much as you can. Get into the side roads, local villages, remote country.

 

[WE ROME]

When is the best time to depart the US from Texas and head south, to coincide with the warm weather in the very south of south America? Thanks.

 

[Alanymarce]

People have done this in anything from weeks to years; it depends on your average travel. We typically cover 165 km/day - what do you expect to cover per day? Secondly it depends on whether you go from A to B (shortest route) or go exploring and cover a lot more distance (as we do; we drove 49,000 km in South America alone) - how do you travel?

 

[John and Mandi]

We listened to the normal advice of crossing into Baja around October or November, we crossed just after Thanksgiving. Honestly, it was colder than we would have preferred most of the time so we would have been better served to cross earlier or in spring (we're from Florida). Unless you hammer through you won't be able to stay in the perfect temperature range the entire time. We spent 18 months in Mexico and C.A. so we had to deal with every season, we spent about the same amount of time in S.A. but the vast majority was in the mountains. When you get too hot, drive up...when too cold, drive down. You'd be surprised at how much elevation there is in Latin America.