Overland Expo 2015: a view by an outsider
http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/the-crazy-camping-rigs-at-americas-richest-off-road-adv-1705279152 will get you to piece written by someone with sleek writing skills who knows nothing about what we do ...
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I could name and highlight on a map at least 21 regions from Canada's north, down to Argentina, that are seriously RECENTLY unexplored by motorized vehicle (since the mid 20th Century). Many have been surveyed by aircraft and satellite reconnaissance, but VERY sparingly by foot and nearly not at all by motorized vehicle since the 1950s.
Seven of the 21 are located in: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Getting "near" any of these "unexplored" regions could be considered "extreme adventure travel", and certainly getting "through" any of these 21 regions would be considered a fairly insane endeavor; some requiring the hiring of off-duty military personnel as protection!
...I had always wanted to write a book (with my illustrated maps included) of America's most recently unexplored regions (by "Americas", I mean: North, Central and South Americas)...
As Robert wrote, there are many unexplored regions of Australia (remember the ancient rain-forest discovered in Australia in the mid '90s housing an enormous expanse of ~~40 million-year-old tree species almost unchanged genetically ??!! ). Africa also has many large expanses of little-explored territory. Large tracts of Namibia; there are large tracts of rainforest in Zaire that even local indigenous Africans have never explored (local superstitions preclude)
Seven of the 21 are located in: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Getting "near" any of these "unexplored" regions could be considered "extreme adventure travel", and certainly getting "through" any of these 21 regions would be considered a fairly insane endeavor; some requiring the hiring of off-duty military personnel as protection!
...I had always wanted to write a book (with my illustrated maps included) of America's most recently unexplored regions (by "Americas", I mean: North, Central and South Americas)...
As Robert wrote, there are many unexplored regions of Australia (remember the ancient rain-forest discovered in Australia in the mid '90s housing an enormous expanse of ~~40 million-year-old tree species almost unchanged genetically ??!! ). Africa also has many large expanses of little-explored territory. Large tracts of Namibia; there are large tracts of rainforest in Zaire that even local indigenous Africans have never explored (local superstitions preclude)
