Scroll down to find links to our email addresses, informational sites, resources for travelers, books and equipment, and, most importantly, to other people who are living out adventures of their own. Enjoy!

We love to hear from people visiting the site, so if you would like to write us, we love hearing from people! We pulled off our email addresses due to spam, but you can write to us at webmaster at sandcruiser dot com. Cheers!

jocelynbroyles.com - Bb's jewelry site. Great place to buy gifts.

Informational/Useful Sites

Costa Rica Real Estate - Looking to invest in Costa Rican real estate? This is the place. Condos, Lots, Homes, Developments... its all there.

Books! - Follow this link to get a list of books we recommend or that we've been reading. Any purchases you make will go to support Amazon.com, but they'll kick back a tiny little percentage to us which helps pay for things like.... um... well, not very much. But some day when this site is huge a famous and attracts more than 50 visitors a day the proceeds might add up to something big.

Tread Lightly! - Off Road doesn't have to hurt the environment. Read about how to be responsible and have fun in the outdoors.

Nasa Image of the World at Night - Very cool composite image of man-made light at night.

Pay Pal - Ok, catch this: if you sign up by clicking this link, you get $5 and (more importantly) we get $5. Pretty cool. The other benefit is that you get to accept credit card payments over the web- good for selling just about anything.

Yahoo Weather Reports- Central America - daily weather reports and forecasts on Central America. Especially useful is the satellite photo of Central America. There is a Mexico Weather Page as well

Central America Daily - Daily news reports and headlines

CIA Factbooks - All sorts of data on just about every country in the world. Some of it seems like it may not have been updated very recently or is based on early 90's data.

National Geographic Xpeditions - Downloadable maps of the world, available with or without cities and towns. Handy for all sorts of stuff.

Metric-Standard Conversion Tables - Don't know how many pounds there are in a Kilo? Want to see how far 500 kilometers is compared to your daily commute? This page makes it easy.

Travel Insurance Services - Because you can't always know for sure what is going to happen to you while you are abroad!

South American Explorers Club - Books, travel tips, maps, stories. We bought some stuff from them and weren't terribly impressed by the production quality, and most of the information is anecdotal and/or based on a single experience. But it is a good resource.

Todos Santos Directory - Information on Todos Santos, Baja, and Scotland (really!) The owner, Ken MacFarlane, is a very nice guy who helped us update while on the road.

Desafío Tours - Adventure Tours and internet access in La Fortuna and Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Driving to Mexico - Information from the Mexican government. Seems to be pretty solid advice.

Toyota Land Cruiser Association - Thousands of Land Cruiser owners, excellent bi-monthly magazine (Toyota Trails), incredible source for 'Cruiser information. Amazing how tight-knit a multi-national group can be.

South America Travel Tips

4wdonline Internet Magazine - Four Wheel Drive information and links

Other Travelers

Planet Incognita - Much like our journey, this group of four plans to travel through all of the Americas (from Alaska to the tip of South America) in a Land Cruiser wagon. Much like our journey, they've suffered a serious setback early on…

Ola Dream - John Paul and Natalie stopped off at our place to spend a night or two as they were on their way southward towards Panama (and eventually Argentina?) Fun visit and it got us thinking wistfully about travel.

Ihana.com - Two wicked brits who manage to get their Landy stuck all over Central and South America, in between trips to bars and discos and whatnot. Good photos, funny stories, wicked fun.

Two Gypsies - Husband and wife team of fulltime travelers, Don Hardy and Rebecca Hill have written some very interesting essays about life in Mexico, USA, Canada, Portugal, Thailand… and counting. We're hoping to meet up with them sometime in summer of 2001.

Tripping On Travel - Craig and Ilse Erasmus are driving an HJ60 Land Cruiser (like Sandy, sorta) all over the Americas. Good descriptions and photos from an English point of view.

JK Publishing - Publishing travel stories from novice/experienced authors. Profits go to grassroots development projects in the "Developing World".

Balum.com - François and Sandra spent about a year in Central America driving an FJ60 Land Cruiser just about everywhere. They helped us get started and gave us some great tips for our trip. They are now in Avandaro (near Valle de Bravo), Mexico running offroad driving classes and conducting tours, check out Activentura.com for more info!

Surfari 2001 - John and Chris are getting ready to take John's 89 FJ62 Land Cruiser on safari in Central America looking for great waves. Nice, clean site (was offline last time we checked).

World Record Tour - Pictures and stories of the 15-year-journey of Liliana and Emil Schmid through 127 countries in a Toyota Landcruiser

Africa Overland Network -- Well done site with an extensive collection of links to overland trips, mostly Africa, some Australia and Americas. Most of the rigs are Rovers.

Around the world in 80 Clicks - Extensive collection of frustratingly short stories about Boris Kester's travels throughout the world, includes some good pictures.

Pat Hudson in Latin America

Pacific Northwest Outdoor and Offroad Adventures - Offroad travel. Landruisers, good photos of the Pacific Northwest. Also some tech tips and some thoughts on all that is offroad travel. Worth a visit.

Remote Area Photography - Great pictures of Australia's wilderness, and a nice Cruiser

Chasing the Sun - Andy & Kitrian Meagher's Round the world journey

Travel Hog - Lists dozens of web pages or stories devoted to travel.

New Cruiser - Robin and Raenelle Travel in Central America in a very cool custom built aluminum Land Cruiser. They stopped in on us in Tamarindo and we had a great time! July 2008 they are headed to South America for another expedition.

Destination Unknown - Two travelers in Central America. (page was down last time we checked)

The Turtle Expedition - Gary and Monika Wescott travel the world in a highly modified Ford with camper

South America Four Wheel Trip - Follow Roy & Gladys Halvorsen's trip through Latin America in an old Land Rover

Sons Of Thunder Christian Off-Road Club - These guys do missionary trips to Central America in some very nice Jeeps

Starship Millenium Voyage - A group of scientists and journalists travel around the world in a very cool ship

Shoestring Travels - Kevin Korell's travelogue site. Links to other sites, stories from India and Mexico.

WorldWander - Karen and Scooter travel around the world, visiting the wonders of the world.

Extreme Telecommuting - Sid and Kristanne, travelling the US and Europe, telecommuting to work in California! An interesting twist on "Business Travel"

Our Trip Around the World - Joe Hunt and Cara Denko travel around the world. Very nice VW van

Chris and Becky's Excellent Adventure - Chris Mendez and Becky Wheeler travel the world

Peter Verrill's Travels - Mostly Mexico, but also some good information about driving in Central America

Other Land Cruiser sites

Ih8Mud.comThe best place online to learn about Landcruisers. Great source of information on technical details, travel, upgrades, common problems, techniques, etc.

Top Toyota Sites - links to a bunch of Toyota sites, not very many Landcruiser sites yet.

Eric V's Photopoint Page - Some great pictures of Cruisin in Idaho, even a few of Sandy!

Farmer Jon's Cruiser Page - Some info and pics about an FJ40 and an FJ60, both in the process of being significantly restored/modified.

Northwest Cruisers of Idaho - Great group of cruiser-heads who took us on a wonderful trail run through the snow

Chris Alger's Photo Gallery - Chris is a fellow Land Cruiser owner who takes great pictures, including a few of Sandy!

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