I have a confession to make: I’ve never written about this here or elsewhere before — but I have a deeply-rooted fascination about motor homes (also called mobile homes, recreational vehicles, etc).

And I’m convinced I’m going to live in one of these someday, that’s I’ve been incessantly shedding away all but absolutely needed “stuff” and living a really lean life (another confession, eh?). It’s just a matter of time.

For now I nurture my passion by frequenting various RV forums, blogs, newsletters. Thanks to the Internet, I can easily find and interact with like-minded people from all over the world. This doesn’t come so easily for me in the brick-and-mortar world.

Today someone passed along these massive beasts from UNICAT: The UNICAT Expedition Vehicles, passionately nicknamed “land yachts”.

Designed, engineered and built to take you practically anywhere you want to go: from the heat of the Sahara to through the cold of the North Pole, even through up to 4ft of water… God have mercy!

Fitted with redundant GPS units … so you’ll never get lost on the desert!

On board “escape” vehicle:

Now just look at the interior: real and rare luxury on the road!

I want one of these. Pricing depends on the particular model and fittings, so you want to buy one for me, just let me know… so we can take out all those stuff that I wouldn’t need

More photos of these recreational / expedition vehicles from UNICAT’s website.

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Update: Turns out that I’m not the only one fascinated by these beasts. Veronica Belmont from Mahalo Daily took a trip to UNICAT Ameicas’ Palo Alto HQ to check out their entry level vehicle.

Now this “entry level vehicle”, with all the fittings will take you back US$600,000, and US$800 to completely fill the tank (at current gas prices). Hmmm. Here’s the Mahalo Daily video:

Here’s a little interactive map of Ghana courtesy of Google Maps. Use the arrows at the upper left corner to move around and to zoom in and out.

As you can see, you cannot get that much detailed view from this map. If you’d like to explore Ghana further from your desktop, download and install Google Earth, a free desktop application from Google.

This free desktop application combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips. Works on both PCs and Macs.

But even with Google Earth, you still cannot get as much detail about Ghana as you could from other places like the United States. This is because Google has to license the geospatial data from third-party providers.

And guess what… Uncle Google will license this data only when it makes the most economic sense! Yeah, they only buy this data for countries where they make their money from. But would you do otherwise?

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