We finally drive south from las penitas and stop in Leon for supplies. We actually start our day with some much needed bus maintenance and a tire rotation, but are underway soon enough. The market in leon is g...
Costa Rica the birthplace of mass marketed eco-tourism, the two-week vacationers’ cloud forest dream, the overlander’s nightmare. After a week and half here, we are still unsure how we feel about the tourist be...
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We met our first overlanders for ages in Uyuni and theres a photo of their self built truck below. Pretty amazing what you can do with an old army flat bed Iveco. We went and messed around on the...
Ethiopia, the homeland of Haile Selassi, is the heartland of Rastafarianism. As such Addis Ababa it is still firmly in the thrall of the Reggae that Selassi brought back from his exile in Jamaica. Before Reggae however the music heritage lay in Ja...
“ Nigeria is a very dangerous country”, or so we had been told by many people throughout Africa
Serves: 4 Prep time: 10 minutes Cook ...
Brodie is back! After a long wait we received confirmation from our contact Keith that the vessel had docked, the container had been unloaded, and that it was now waiting for us at t...
After the poor experiences of National Parks in Senegal, we were looking forward to visiting the wondrous parks of Southern Africa. Kruger Park is a real favourite of ours, and particularly the opportunity to enjoy wa...
Last week I went to the US. I was in the jury for SIGGRAPH, and also wanted to reenter the country before hitting the six month mark. I’m on a greencard and the INS likes it better that way. I spent four days in San Francisco and three in a...
Our time in Nica has been spent slowly passing the days staring at the ocean. It’s hot here. Very ho...
Our time in Nica has been spent slowly passing the days staring at the ocean. It’s hot here. Very ho...
We were traveling north along the Pan American Highway known as Ruta 5 in Chile. This road goes from South to North along most of the country. Roads that branch off Ruta 5 go to loads of interesting places, and we decided to make a side trip through ...
For this month’s gear review, I’m testing out the: If there’s one issue with remote travel by vehicle, it...
Last season I was more or less (except for the most amazing bonus in the world) stuck in the dining tent as a kitchen assistant and dish washer. This season I signed up to work in the Mechanical department, and the idea was that I would be out drivin...
Leaving the dust and heat of Nosara we retreated to the beach at Samara. This was a 28 km ride down a VERY dusty dirt road. Dan is on the up hill and looking back at me down hill. I’m trying to stay back out of Dan’e dust cloud. The conditions wer...
We reached Addis! After picking up Margot, a friend from San Francisco, we dropped our bags at Wimms Holland House. Notorious as the overland camping site, the place has fallen a bit in amenities and hygiene. But it’s right in the middle of...
Today we celebrate 500 days on the road!People often ask, ‘what have been the best bits?’ Impossible to answer. They range from huge awe-inspiring sights – like hiking an active...
Our lives have become busier and more hilarious since we added Aspen to the pack and became a two dog family. Although Porter and Aspen immediately got al...
Looking back at our blog posts, I realized that we don...
There we were driving round town in Tarija and a policeman jumps out and asks for the driving licence of the "conductor" (driver in English). He's at Julies side of the car as always. I hand my lice...
The Valdes Peninsula has the reputation as being one of the best places to see marine mammals in the world. It is also an amazing whale watching destination – in the second half of the year – but there were no whales around when we visited.
We hit the road early and make it to the honduran border crossing. There’s a chance we’ve read too much about the trip through honduras, because even though its only about 80km until nicaragua we’re a bit worried about...
Our idea was and is to stay away from the bigger cities. We both feel better in nature and prefer not to take Dunya and Panda into the cities. Both beasts also feel better in nature. However, when we met a couple on a certain campground who told u...
It was a slightly drunken promise but none the less it was an invitation to Africa. Taking advantage of an absent boss, stretching one weeks leave into two and just enough time to get jabbed, insured and booted. I was off to Ethiopia to meet the r...
We are now back on mainland Chile, a fifteen minute boat trip took us from Chiloe Island to Puerto Montt, and from here our goal was to see Volcan Osorno. It was really strange being back in what seem to us like a mini ‘Europe’ after the wilds of P...
So there we were.....surrounded. Six of them.....we were in trouble....They pulled up in there car and lept out.....We'd only just woken and I was still half asleep. We were sleeping in a petrol station....oh golly.....But we w...
Pereira, ColombiaLife on the road has so many advantages it’s hard to know h...
Spain- a land of arid plains, flamenco, tapas and bullfights. Home to one of our favorite cities, Barcelona, as well as smaller gems like Seville and Granada. What do you envision when you dream of the Iberian Region? For me it’s the astonishing flas...
Our new friend and hostel owner Eduardo had kindly taken us to six stores and the local Gomeria (tyre repair) in the hope of finding replacement rims for our Landy. The business was being run out of a little old couples back yard, old tyres and rims ...
The 1800’s saw a fairly large migration of Welsh farmers to Patagonia and they mostly settled on the Eastern side of the country. This must have been a shock as the landscape here is pretty barren and looks very hard to farm.
We pull into tunco knowing that it’s a bit too busy for us, but needing to get online again and knowing we can meet up with Tad and Gaila of Overland Now for dinner.
We return to the discoteca parking lot and ma...
We pull into tunco knowing that it’s a bit too busy for us, but needing to get online again and knowing we can meet up with Tad and Gaila of Overland Now for dinner.
We return to the discoteca parking lot and ma...
Like a good first aid kit or a winch, we hope we never need chains, but w...
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a so called “scenic byway” and runs for about 570 miles fro m Front Royal in Northern Virginia all the way down to the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina.
I had thought that since Spring is just round the corner (although I’m not so sure having looked at the forecast for this weekend), I should finally write up about the BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Now that Dan is “a kite surfer dude” we are going to head south to meet his sister and her family in Nosara. The drive south was initially on the gravel road back to la Cruz and then for a few hours on the pavement. After leaving La Cruz there are...
Now that Dan is “a kite surfer dude” we are going to head south to meet his sister and her family in Nosara. The drive south was initially on the gravel road back to la Cruz and then for a few hours on the pavement. After leaving La Cruz there are...
Now that Dan is “a kite surfer dude” we are going to head south to meet his sister and her family in Nosara. The drive south was initially on the gravel road back to la Cruz and then for a few hours on the pavement. After leaving La Cruz there are...
More photos, great stories, and daily life in Belize coming soon. Meanwhile enjoy these photos. Thanks from the staff at Central America Overland Expeditions, trust us that we are working hard to bring you the most up to the minute information to ...
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Ethiopia Part 1: South Omo Nothing we’ve seen in Africa quite comes close to South Omo. Here, you don’t find a trace of “modern Africa,” and passing through the Ethiopian mountains was like entering a time warp. Even up to 50 ...
Our time in el zonte is a paradox between the tranquillo serenity onshore and the power constantly crashing just meters away offshore.
We spend our time endlessly watching the waves, our days bookended by glorio...
We’re 5 days short of our 8-year anniversary in the UK and are about to storm the beaches of Normandy. We leave tonight under the cover of darkness and arrive at the crack of sparrow’s fart tomorrow morning for a fortnight of cheese, wine and gre...
Jules and I went ...
We have been taught many lessons thus far on the trip ...
Heading south from the border, we made for the Playa Copal and to the Kite House. The road is gravel from La Cruz and that is also where the nearest grocery store is. The view from our room overlooks the bahia Salinas. Learning to kite surf...
Heading south from the border, we made for the Playa Copal and to the Kite House. The road is gravel from La Cruz and that is also where the nearest grocery store is. The view from our room overlooks the bahia Salinas. Learning to kite surf...
We eventually learn that in this small bay there are many things that can be difficult to find. Internet it seems is one of them. There is a guy with a usb modem, but on days like this with a lot of wind it do...
We had a very short ride past Volcano Masaya and on to Granada. We went up the volcano last time we were in Nicaragua and it is really worth it. I love the sign in the parking lot beside the active crater that says “ park facing out…just in case”....
I arrived in Laos and Laos didn’t even know it. In fact, I was in Laos for about an hour, had lunch and a beer before I decided I should BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
I arrived in Laos and Laos didn’t even know it. In fact, I was in Laos for about an hour, had lunch and a beer before I decided I should BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
This month we’ve taken ourself off the road and into the trees, renting the top floor of a cabin in San Cristóbal de las Casas. It is at one of our favorite campgrounds, Rancho San Nicolás, where we ...
This takes the prize as not only the quickest border crossing that we’ve done but also the most fun. The Argentine side of the border is a reasonably big complex of buildings with a fairly dilapidated look about them. There is a boom across...
Depois de ver Nova York do alto à noite, resolvemos ter a mesma experiência durante o dia. Mas antes, fomos conhecer o Flatiron Building. Esse prédio com formato estranho foi construído em 1902 e na época era um dos prédios mais altos do mundo. O pré...
Nenhuma viagem a Nova York está completa sem um passeio pelo Central Park. A cada ano, mais de 38 milhões de pessoas visitam o parque e nós somamos a essa multidão quando visitamos a cidade. Os números impressionam:
Pete here. Despite slightly tainted from 6 years of absence, the memories of my first exposure to Bolivia’s carnage w...
It took us a couple of nights to come down from our trip to Antarctica and get ready to be back on the road. Adjusting to a camper half the size of the room we’d had on Sea Spirit was only half of it. BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
It has been about two months since our last post and the unfortunate events that happened to us in Peru. Combined, Jed and I have about ten word documents saved on this computer, all attempts at trying to piece together our feelings of the attack...
The last few days have been spent mostly under the bus…but getting closer.
It took a day of trying everything but i was eventually able to get the bus up and running again. As is probably clear to everyone now, w...
Yesterday we picked up Panda in the harbor of Baltimore. We presented ourselves at 8.00 am at the office of Pride International, the forwarder of the ship with which Panda crossed the big pond. The papers were all ready, emailed by Seabridge last ...
Nos últimos posts, falei sobre alguns prédios famosos de Nova York e contei como foi ver a cidade lá do alto. Um dos prédios mais icônicos de Nova York, infelizmente, não está mais lá. Em 11 de setembro de 2001, um atentado terrorista derrubou duas t...
View down a v...
An interesting journey to Brandberg but not much to say about the sites on the way BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Just a short post as we’ve heading back into some National Parks for a while, and probably will not have wi-fi access for a couple of weeks. Things are going well, we got the Oil changed in the truck, bought our own hair cutting trimmer so Merv’...
Our time at home over the holidays is fantastic. Surprising the families s...
No trip to Swakopmund is complete without a visit to Sandwich Harbour!! BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
No, no, the OTHER left....
Foram 15 dias de espera até que o barco chegasse com o Troller em Barcelona. Apesar da constante ansiedade em ver o carro estávamos entre amigos e curtindo esta cidade cosmopolitana cheia de vida e belezas arquitetônicas, sem falar é claro da boa ...
Leaving Matagalpa we opted for the long way round. There is a few km of dirt on the way to San Ramon. This is also a great ride! There is a fairly sketchy 20 km just past Muy Muy, but the rest of the road is good. The traffic on the drive thru Ma...
Leaving Matagalpa we opted for the long way round. There is a few km of dirt on the way to San Ramon. This is also a great ride! There is a fairly sketchy 20 km just past Muy Muy, but the rest of the road is good. The traffic on the drive thru Ma...
Johannesburg, South Africa It almost feels like we are back in preparation mode … so it feels quite natural to fall back into my weekly “preparation” update posts – only thi...
“When you get to the top of a wall, there’s nothing up there…the end result is absolutely useless. But every time I travel I learn something new, and hopefully I get to be a better person.” BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
“When you get to the top of a wall, there’s nothing up there…the end result is absolutely useless. But every time I travel I learn something new, and hopefully I get to be a better person.” BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
“When you get to the top of a wall, there’s nothing up there…the end result is absolutely useless. But every time I travel I learn something new, and hopefully I get to be a better person.” BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
The town of Coyhaique is located about half way through the Carretera Austral and is also the biggest “city” with a burgeoning population of 50,000. After so long spent on empty roads and surrounding wilderness it was a bit jarring to pull into th...
The Oaxaca Children Grassroots is a non profit in the US, that funds the Centro de Esperanza infantil, in Oaxaca. BlogThis!Share to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Did I say I love my motorcycle? Lucille, my 2011 BMW F800GS is the perfect tool for this most wonderful trip. Today was proof of that. Gaila and I had the luxury of sleeping in a little bit (we did yesterday too:-) and that was nice after a ver...
We are finally reunited with the bus. The last few days have been quite comfortable. Karma’s meds are over and she seems to be in good health and spirits. We spent our time starting to make a small group of fr...
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