Gran Viaje
Halifax to Montevideo in a Land Rover Defender, 2017–2019
In May 2017 we set off on a journey through the Americas in our Land Rover Defender.
On April 26th the Landy was shipped to Halifax in a container. A few weeks later Ben followed and explored Canada and the United States on his own, with no fixed plan apart from a visit to Kansas City in June and August in the Pacific Northwest. On 1 November Rachel and Mitzi joined in Los Angeles, and two weeks later we crossed into our first Latin American country: Mexico.
From there we drove south through Central and South America, 18 countries in all. At the end of 2019 the Landy was shipped home to Switzerland from Montevideo.
This site is the record of that trip. The journal has every post in order, and the route below follows the countries from north to south. If you are planning a similar trip, Preparation collects what we sorted out beforehand, from the car to visas and spare parts.
The route
Before we left
How we prepared the car, what we packed and what we would do differently.