About Us

Hi there! We are Taisa and Ernesto of Overland the Americas. On July 18 of 2015, we quit our desk jobs and started driving our Toyota 4Runner, Sooty, from Seattle, Washington to the tip of South America and back. We drove across all 23 contiguous countries in the Americas while living out of our car for 4 years. We're now back home in the United States plotting our new adventures!

Meet the Team

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Taisa

Outdoor enthusiast, environmentalist and yoga instructor.

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Ernesto

Adventure seeker, designer, photographer, musician and stubborn idealist.

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Tanchô

Our quaint Troopy is the epitome of under-stressed, over engineered design. The quintessential overland rig.

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Variosaurus

A Middle Eastern Royal Court Guard Mercedes Benz Vario 615D from Oman with a cool story.

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Sooty

Adventure vehicle and home-on-wheels with a vanity complex and a weight problem.

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