Tim and Kelsey Huber bill themselves as two ordinary people living an extraordinary life. For the last two years, they've lived in "Goose," a 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser modified for camping with a custom interior and pop-top.
After a year secretly planning, saving, and divesting themselves of all salable possessions, the duo crossed into Tecate Baja, California, on June 25, 2018. They spent most of the first month trying to beat the heat by staying high in the mountains or hugging the Pacific ocean. Unfortunately, when they tried to ship Goose to mainland Mexico, a paperwork issue sent them back to the US border. They made a banzai-run North to get it sorted out. With the documents in hand, they said goodbye to Baja and headed East into Mexico. The Pan American Highway led them down through colonial cities of the North to the beaches of Oaxaca and into Chiapas' jungles. Once in Central America, they enjoyed Nicaragua and El Salvador but hustled through Costa Rica to get to Panama. They had a deadline to meet a freighter and get Goose across the Darien Gap. As they waited for Goose to arrive from Panama, they spent a magical month exploring Cartagena, Colombia, on foot.
Back in the Land Cruiser, they worked their way South. Zig-zagging through Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru before heading into Brazil and onto Bolivia. They explored cayman-filled jungles, survived the death road, salt flats, and climbed to 18,660 feet, before continuing South into Tierra del Fuego. At the tip of Patagonia, they celebrated with friends they had met along the way before heading back North. Argentina and Uruguay were the last places they saw before the coronavirus began closing down borders. They shipped Goose to the US from Montevideo, Uruguay. He landed in Texas on March 17, 2020. With the drive to Canada figured into the journey, they've logged 80,000 miles and are still on the road! When we spoke at the end of August, they were in Gillette, Wyoming. To follow their journey or buy them a taco check out their website www.dirtsunrise.com.
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