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Get our hints and tips on money, camping, border crossings, paper work, and other useful stuff.

Featured image: a road with BGToll sign (and text overlay). Bulgaria introduced the new electronic BGToll system for heavy vehicles and included motorhomes. In this post I explain how we dealt with this utter nuisance.

BGToll, Needed for Motorhomes over 3.5 tons in Bulgaria

Bulgaria introduced the new electronic BGToll system for heavy vehicles and included motorhomes. In this post I explain how we dealt with this utter nuisance.

Overlanding in Peru: Get Off The Pan-American Highway!

Driving the Pan-American Highway – a dream of many. Our post summarises all the basic practical information you need to know before overlanding in Peru.

Save Money on a Rental Car to Follow in our Footsteps

At dare2go, we encourage you to rent a vehicle and take one of our road trips. Here are some tips, and a coupon, to save money on that rental car.

Overlanding in Brazil: Our Favourite Country This Trip

Overlanding in Brazil: our summary of safety, road conditions and tolls, overnight camping, sights, supplies, and other topics relevant to overlanders.

Overlanding in Uruguay: our summary of road conditions, road tolls, safety, overnight camping, supplies, and other topics relevant to overland travellers.

Overlanding in Uruguay: a Small but Inviting Country

Overlanding in Uruguay: our summary of road conditions, road tolls, safety, overnight camping, and other topics relevant to overland travellers.

Overlanding in Chile: dare2go Experience Over 14 Months

Overlanding in Chile: our summary of road conditions, road tolls, safety, overnight camping, supplies, and other topics relevant to overland travellers.

One of the things we spotted during our border crossing trip: this beautiful antique lock shut the church gate in Cariquima.

How we Crossed a Border with no Border Crossing

This is our adventurous tale of how we crossed from Bolivia into Chile, using a border which has no official border crossing. Many things didn’t go to plan.

Overlander Headache: how to get Internet on the Road

Our full-time trip in South America comes with one typical overlander headache: how to get internet on the road. Here are some tips we would like to share.

We're often staying at a church overnight. We believe an added advantage might be that people respect church yards.

How We Find Overnight Places On-The-Road

Overland travellers face the challenge (almost) daily of finding a safe, quiet place to spend the night. This is how we find our overnight locations.

In the middle of the Salar de Atacama we had full bars reception for Entel mobile data!

Best Option to get Mobile Internet in Chile

Our recommendation for Mobile Internet in Chile. Travelling overland we use mobile data regularly and had excellent experiences with ENTEL “banda ancha”.

Chunky Vegetables in Tomato Broth over Couscous

A quick and easy recipe to use up left-over vegetables. A tomato-broth based vegetable stew on couscous. Vegetarian cooking in our overland camper on the road.

What to Include in an Overlander’s Kitchen

Packing list with essentials for our overland kitchen. What we eat keeps us going. To prepare food we need the right equipment and utensils in our kitchen.

Hello & Welcome

Meet Yasha and Juergen. Our travel blog is atypical because we travel differently, not flying from one dream destination to the next. Our choice instead: to take it slowly, take side roads, discover places aside from the typical "bucket list" and guidebook highlights. We drive and live in our self-built overland camper, called [~~"Berta"~~] "Bertita" (little Berta since 2018 in Europe). You can read more on our "About Us" page.

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BGToll, Needed for Motorhomes over 3.5 tons in Bulgaria

Bulgaria introduced the new electronic BGToll system for heavy vehicles and included motorhomes. In this post I explain how we dealt with this utter nuisance.

The COVID-19 Challenges for Overlanders are Not All Over

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Picturesque Towns of Western Greece You Should Visit

The mainland coast of Greece has many picturesque towns you should visit by car or motorhome. These towns are cheaper to reach than the famous Greek islands.

Overlanding in Peru: Get Off The Pan-American Highway!