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Originally Posted by dennis45
Tony, you might try contacting these folks. They do caravans to Mexico and May be able to provide some insight on SA. We have dealt with David Baxley and found him to be a very good person to deal with.
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Thanks Dennis but Betty and I break out in a terrible rash just thinking about travelling in a caravan - or even a small convoy. Not long spent three months in Mexico - boondocking for about half the nights - and six months in Argentina and Chile - also boondocking wherever possible and practical- and so far no bullet holes in the rig or us.
That doesn't mean we don't hookup with other travellers for a day or two now and then, or give other travellers a wide berth when camping, because that would mean we can't access important intelligence on the road ahead, but driving around with a number on front and back and having to listen to waggonmasters droning on and on - not to mention the bingo sessions .... But we are all different so caravans serve a useful function.
Caption- [Nothing too unusual about people sitting around in a circle outside their RVs. In Australia it happens all all the time late each afternoon. What makes this one different is first that no-one has a glass in their hand and second, those in this group have paid up to $8000 to join a 20-vehicle convoy to Mexico and they, having driven for some days to get here, and the rest of us in the RV park, have just endured an amplified, very long address by the team leader -- and now they are enjoying a game of BINGO - also delivered over a speaker system - AND it is still early morning.]
Generally South and Central America are fairly easy places to do your RVing in simply because no Carnet is required and border procedures are reasonably uncomplicated. There are hundreds of blogs by travellers - in many different languages and in some cases are literary masterpieces - so you can spend months living vicariously through the lives of others before taking the step yourself. You can also read blogs by cyclists who have ridden the entire lenght of the pan American Higway - from top of Alaska to Ushuaia and after seeing them push their bikes into howling gales for days, we do it the real easy way.
We are soon to visit in Utah with a couple who have just bought a F350 and Bigfoot camper (they already have a nice rig but they need something smaller and lighter) and are preparing it for a journey to the bottom. No need to spend a fortune (we did the first 6 months in a vehicle costing a whole $3000) to have an adventure.
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