Currently we are 10 days into the trip and enjoying it, we have done around 2,000 miles and the car has averaged around 35 mpg, no problems yet fingers crossed. Overall, Germany we drove through quickly, maybe we should have visited more sites, but plan to revisit on the way back, Denmark was dull much like England, sweden and Norway…
I was taken aback immediately to my school days when I saw the first old Blue Bird school bus rolling through the Belizean countryside. With their bright colors, roof racks, ladders and souped up engines and transmissions these old buses will get you just about anywhere you need to go in the county. It’s funny after carting thousands of US…
We arrived late in Letaba on Friday because of the long delay at Skukuza workshop. Arno decided to drive the Hilux in 4×4 because the vibration that we heard at the front right wheel then stops. We were lucky to get the very last campsite against the fence. As normal, the hyenas came at dusk running up and down the…
“Five passengers set sail that day for a three-hour tour. A three-hour tour. The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the” … I was trying to shake the theme song from Gilligan’s Island from my head, but it was not working. You see normally I’d like to kind of have a…
So after hours of working on this short film, its ready, Central America, hope you enjoy! Please let me know if you enjoy it!…
We reluctantly left Loreto this morning, amazing place to chill out and the 1697 resturant rocks, if you are in the area they have great rooms for rent and do brilliant food, thanks to Kieran, Norma and their son Patricio (Paddy) for a great time and fantastic hospitality. We had a great run up to Santa Rosalia, only around 130…
After a few days in northwestern Nicaragua (Somoto Canyon and Esteli), we made a beeline to the coast for some surf. We stopped at a town called El Transito, and instead of surf, we found a really sketchy little fishing town with one very aggressive drunk. That night, we asked to park at a hotel and they told us it…
15th May 2013 N48° 24.598’ W123° 19.869’ After Medford we wanted to drop by at Crater Lake, about 100 kms NW of Medford along the appropriately named Crater Lake Highway. Everyone who knew that part of Oregon told us it was perhaps the most beautiful lake in north America and definitely worth the trip. But being quite high up in…
Travel with Purpose. Wow. When we first began our little adventure, im not sure we could have even told you what “Overland Travel” meant. We were simply looking to change our current lives and mindsets, and couldn’t think of a much better way to do that than to remove ourselves. We set out on a bit of a walkabout (or…
Truck on it’s side A herd of Camals A donkey carrying far to much hay Truck loses it’s load down a donga We found some interesting photo’s depicting Ethiopian roads while we driving south towards South Africa……
We’ve done an extensive 4×4 Overland experiment where we have taken two brands of the same size tyres and driven them extensively from London the UK to South Africa. The Toyo was fitted to a long wheel base Toyota Land Cruiser Prado and the BFG fitted to a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado short wheel base. Toyo 255/85 MT tyres at…
We are terribly proud of little Lily, she’s fitted in well with the travelling esp. when we have been forced to travel great distances. She’s really enjoyed running out side with no shoes on and seems to be picking up so many words, languages, experiences for a two year old. Here’s some of our favourites… Love your parentsxxx Lily’s bush…
We made our way up north to the Simien mountains to a town called Debark, looking for Sib and Pris who were two days ahead of us after they left Gondor. We arrived at the Simien National Park where we went looking for them and were told by the National Park Wardens that they were in the guest book and…
After a long day on the Marsabit Moyale road and then doing the border crossing from Kenya to Ethiopia it was time to call it a day. Our first night in Ethiopia was spent in a hotel 1, 5 km from the border. There we were also served out first Ethiopian meal, grilled goat meat with the traditional injera, bread,…
Metema border Lake Tana sunset Simien mountain bush camp, nic dragging a tree for the fire Bad road to Axum Their huts with a beautiful outlook over lake Tana Nicky lake tana Lily’s dog bite at Tim and Kims at Tana Bush camp in simian mountains outside Debark 12th-20th April We arrived at the Metema border at 9am on the…
Way back in 1962, British director David Lean choose the dusty town of Ouarzazate and its surrounding area to film his epic movie ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. Lean recognised the potential of the area as a unique and versatile film location and inadvertently started the small dusty towns long love affair with Hollywood. Ouarzazate and the smaller UNESCO World Heritage site…
Nós chegamos ao Canadá em uma época do ano não muito popular para turistas: o inverno. Muita gente nos perguntou o que estávamos fazendo por lá no inverno e porque não tínhamos ido no verão. Acredito que Montreal deva ser sensacional no verão mas eu gostei muito da cidade no inverno também. As possibilidades de atrações ficam bem limitadas mas…
Salaam Aleikum, My route over the last few days. I had a slow start the morning after the last blog. I had a quick coffee and packed in a rush as Dave was ready to go. We had a long day ahead of us as we wanted to push to Marrakech, the one city I have been looking forward to…
Hi everybody, I just wanted to say a quick hello. Technology challenges in ‘The Stans’ are making it difficult to update you on my progress. Since I left Tbilisi the days have been a blur. Boats (3 days on a leaky cargo boat), Borders (Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and Boris have been keeping me occupied. Don’t fret some blog updates…
Next day was a longish one – we needed to make it almost 300km to Roy’s Rest Camp just outside Grootfontein. We also discovered that the main part of Namibia is on a different time zone! So, turning the clocks back gave us an extra hour in the day. On the way, we stopped in Rundu to find the “Forget-me-not…