The Essential Guide to Overland Travel in the United States and Canada: A Resource for Independent Travel and Camping

Learn how to choose and equip a long distance overland vehicle, and camping gear that best fits your individual needs. Why you might make one choice over another depending upon your situation. This book is divided into three sections: Getting started, gearing up for extended overland travel, and going out on the trail. Content includes the basics of choosing a primitive camp site, cooking on the trail, proper hydration, choosing clothing based upon the fabric blend and not appearance, driving over different terrains, getting unstuck, choosing and using recovery gear that’s appropriate for your vehicle, traveling with others, communication options, maintenance, and much more. Throughout the book there is a focus on traveling in harmony with nature and leaving no trace behind as you travel and camp. Canada and the United States combined is larger than the South American continent and almost twice the land mass of the entire European continent. You could easily spend a life time exploring the wonders of these two nations and yet not see all the wonders they have to offer.