Temporary Import Permit (TIP) Archives

Tackling Big Bend’s Black Gap 4×4 Road

July 20, 2020

Big Bend National Park. If you have been paying attention in the last few years, Big Bend keeps popping up as a National Park that you need to visit. We had read several blogs and [read more]

A Baja Truck Camper Adventure

March 20, 2020

While thousands visit Mexico each year despite media reports of its dangers, few explore Baja as one can in a truck camper. Baja is a large tract of land roughly 1,000 miles from Tijuana to [read more]

A Big Hand For the Mexican Mainland

November 19, 2018

No Labels I am not an Overlander. At least I no longer use that shackle as a definition. As labels go, Overlander may already have passed its sell-by date. Overlanding’s Australian bush travel origins being [read more]

No Fear or Loathing in Mexico

September 24, 2018

It’s 1977. Spellbound moviegoers watch agents of the evil empire approach the droids in Star Wars. Feeling the need to protect his tin friends, Obi-Wan raises a wise hand and breathes the immortal line, “These [read more]

Kid and Gypsy Enjoy Truck Camper Life Abroad

July 2, 2018

Interested in living full-time in a truck camper and exploring North, Central, and South America? Michel and Sabina Robitaille of Ontario, Canada are making that popular dream a reality. After planning this trip for a [read more]

Truck Campers Banned in Mexico?

October 26, 2017

You may have heard by now that truck campers are being turned away at the Mexico border. Is this true? Unfortunately, yes. But the reason appears to be a misunderstanding of Mexican law by Mexican [read more]