Hi Stuart, I'm from Minneapolis Minnesota USA and I'm also a regular Indiana Jones when it comes to travel, been all around the whole world, one of my great trips was flying to Sidney Austrailia and renting a car and driving from Sidney to Perth and back, great trip! and one of my longest road trips was Minneapolis to Fairbanks Alaska on the Alaska highway, almost 8000 miles (12,800 KM) ! I did it with my Ford Escort which I now keep as a collector car, it has a quarter million miles on it!