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Traversing the West Coast of Africa requires visiting a minimum of twelve countries, and optionally up to twenty-four. There are many reasons to skip certain countries—safety, weather, visa issues and even Ebola outbreaks closing borders. More simply, sometimes a country is skipped simply due to a lack of...

For decades, the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series was the truck Americans could read about but never legally buy. It was built for the Australian outback, the Saharan oil fields, and the United Nations motor pool, and Toyota never bothered to federalize it for the United States. The 25-year import rule changed that. Every year, a fresh batch of these solid-axle, diesel-powered w...

There are two unalterable facts you need to know about water. First, it is incompressible—thus, if sucked through an air cleaner into an engine whose pistons are trying mightily to compress the contents of their cylinders by a factor of nine to one or more, it will cause bad things to happen...

Have you heard the old proverb about turning tart-tasting lemons into lemonade? Sure, we’ve all heard that line, but there’s so much wisdom in it even though the sentiment has become cliché.

When life changes for one reason or another, and you must adapt to forge ahead, a helpful practice is to take inventory of what you currently have on hand ...