Join me for a Christmas story as I travel around the world from the sunny beaches of Australia to the frigid winter of Canada.
Why do I subject myself to this? It’s time for a story!
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00:00 Goodbye Australia
01:00 Seeing an old friend
06:36 Getting a new battery
07:47 Battery Install
09:25 Results
11:25 Road Trip
29:18 Kootenay pass
34:44 Goodbye for now
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I think Jeeps are still for you in the future!!
Good choice taking Highway 3. Highway 1 got closed due to an avalanche on the 24th!
The Gladiator was nice, but I found myself very happy to see the Wrangler again! Welcome back to North America!
Loved your video Dan, so happy to see you back in the most beautiful place in the world. You're going to laugh, but I'm a Canadian living in Adelaide (26 years now). And I drive a 2013 JKU!!! I've wanted to move back so many times but marriage and kids and divorces has kept me in Australia all these years. I think your assessment of the differences is pretty spot on – my personal view is that the two big differences between Canada and Australia are temperature and water. But together these make some big differences – ones that sneak up on you sometimes. Anyway, enjoy your break and your travel planning. Please keep making great content!
Dan, you've been a big inspiration to me. I started watching your channel a few months ago, when I first decided I was going to set out on the road. I've watched a ton of your videos and they have helped guide me through some of the planning phases and led me to new ideas. I have a vehicle, I'm building a water filtration system like
your Africa Jeep, and I hit the road in April to start the Pan American. I expect to spend April/May traveling through Canada, it would be great to "Bump into you on the Road" some day! I'll be looking for your return to the channel/patreon. Until then, best wishes man, enjoy your time home!
Enjoy the break. loved this years trips, looking forward to next year
Looks like the Jeep & Ursa are itching to do another trip!!
Thanks for the topic Dan. I’m going to be moving to Canada soon (my wife is Canadian) and it’s not an easy idea for me. I love Australia but the things you point out are true. The relaxed attitude is just a bit different. Appreciate the opinion!👍
Dan, welcome home! Loved this Christmas story, and as a fellow Canadian, I 100% concur – seasons really do make Canada vibrant and exciting, and as Canadians we all embrace the seasons and live in the moment! What I also find interesting is most Canadians (myself included) don’t often think about it until asked, or when we’ve been away for an extended time and return home, then we full on embrace the seasons again. Anyways, thanks for sharing this great story. Enjoy your well deserved down time and I look forward to hearing about your future adventures. Merry Christmas!
I hope you take this as the light hearted comment it's meant to be but I'm stoked to be watching your videos from not Australia again. I just have this illogical aversion to Aussie offroad content…and I live here. Stoked you enjoyed your time but really looking forward to where you take us next.
Although I’ll miss your Australian content, I missed the famous snake on the dash 😂 I’m looking forward to seeing what have you in store for your next videos 👍
Canada chose you.
Canada is literally a country run by an imbecile ordering tyrants against the population. But go ahead, you’re used to it coming from Australia.
The picture at the end is fantastic!
I do disagree with your Canada diversity theory. In California for example you can go snow skiing in the morning and water skiing in the afternoon.
And I think Canadians must agree because flocks of them come here to Florida every winter and clog up our campgrounds.
Personally you can have that minus…. anything…. temperature! Lol.
It's great to see the African Jeep once again. You seemed like you were pretty happy about it.
Merry Christmas and happy new year! Looking forward to your next adventure.
Welcome home!
I think you have just met the right Canadians, Dan. I have lived all over Canada, including Whitehorse where we met and Yellowknife, but I have met so many Canadians who hate winter and prefer to stay indoors all winter if it was up to them.
Merry Christmas Dan! Glad you are home. Thank you for sharing your adventures and your thoughts! Rest up. See you on here in two months or so! Oh one more thing… that Jeep is pretty impressive! Fixed the battery and you are off..lots of kilometers on it and a year and a half in storage. Very impressive.
I live in Calgary! So happy you visited here.
I would definitely agree Canada is an amazing place to live!!!
Welcome home Dan! Glad to have you back. Merry Christmas!
Happy New Years enjoy the break.
No four seasons in Australia? You have to be kidding
If you like more living in Canada is a legitimate view but saying that in Australia are no for seasons is absolutely incorrect. Have you lived or spent some time in the Tasmanian wilderness, the mountains in Canberra, Victoria NSW in winter? If yes, for how long? Not only Australia has the 4 seasons but also you can change your location any time of the year to choose were to stay or even have a break.
Righto, that does it…. I'm moving to Canada cya soon 🤣👍
Get some good rest, Dan, and enjoy yourself! Look forward to hearing more from you in the coming months.
It must be quite the shock coming back from Australia this time of year. It’s summer there too isn’t it
Glad you made it back home to Canada. We are planning to travel back to Alaska this year taking a different way up than the last time we went. Crossing into Canada on Vancouver Island taking the Sea to Sky and Classier highway north. Also planning doing the Dempster to the Arctic Ocean. Perhaps we will see you some where on the road!
Hey Dan, if you're going to build a new rig I'd be down to buy that sweet pop top camper off ya I'm just in Vancouver. We could do a trade for my stock top too 😉
can you link the build to this jeep?
Welcome home. Your logic is sound on Canadians but it can't just be the weather, or the same could be said for Germans and Russians. I always said it was the 💧water.
I'm glad to hear you gave in and are finally building an F-150 overland vehicle! I'm looking forward to the videos!