Edzna

Just under an hour from Campeche is the uncrowded archaeological site of Edzna, one of the nicest we have visited on this trip so far. Compact but unique in its […]

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New Home

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Why does it happen to me?? (this is not a film)

A bit of an update. Why does it happen to me…Remember the phone call for 8 hours the last time. Well this time the Insurance company sold me some insurance, yesterday. I called again this morning, like I do, to really check that what they told me was true, it wasn’t! So I cancelled it after less than 24 hours. For the privilege of this they charged me £46.60 to which in said no way! So threatening an official complaint I told them they had miss-sold me the insurance. An illeg […]

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The technology of van-life: armed with an arsenal of apps!

We travel with an arsenal of apps!  The technology of van life.  There are several apps we use while traveling that help us plan, organize and communicate.  I hope this […]

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Rock and (corn) row

One of the joys of traveling in this style is that we have the freedom to seize an opportunity. When the Buffalo radio station told us that there were still […]

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Oostkust, Lesotho en Karoo

Einde van het kookplaatdrama We zijn weer een aantal dagen bij Ronald, nu om de kookplaat te vervangen. We vinden een gaskookplaat en gasflessen die passen in de beschikbare ruimte alsof ze ervoor gemaakt zijn. Omdat we niet het materiaal kunnen krijgen dat in Nederland te koop is is het resultaat niet perfect, maar het is een grote vooruitgang. De eerste avond gaan we samen met Ronald uit eten om Jan’s verjaardag te vieren. We ontvlechten tenslotte de inventaris van Ronald en ons […]

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Plan 9 From Outer Space....

Spent all weekend thinking and planning. A few panic moments were had when I thought we would have even more trouble with the parts for the new Ambulance. As its based on the Military Wolf things are a little different than I’m used to and the main thing is the car is 24 volts where as a normal car is almost always 12 volts and this includes Matilda our trusty 300Tdi 110 Defender. The new 130 Defender Ambulance is 24v meaning parts are much more expensive for that side of things. Even the d […]

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The discoverers

Neill & Julie has been to: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portuga […]

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Campfire Tails...

I’ve been thinking about completing the our trip in numbers section and my Dad mentioned it the other day. So I’ve started on it. Some people have mentioned how good Julie was on the trip living in a Land Rover. Well we both did it you know. Not just her! Anyhow, I worked out how many nights we spent in the Land Rover excluding all the nights in hotels waiting for shipping containers and all the nights we spent in the houses of people we met. You could say couch surfing bu […]

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Merry Christmas....

To all those that put us up, looked after us, fed us or just met us and said hello; to my friends who watched us have the time of our lives…..Merry Christmas….if you do that. Happy Holidays…. if you don’t. Season’s Greetings anyway.So Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our friends where ever you are and wherever we met you. We remember you all! To those of you who helped us, looked after us and really just washed us and/or fed us we thank you from the […]

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Some TV....

As some of you know we have no TV licence so we cannot watch live TV but we can watch Netflix. We’ve jsut re-watched Long Way Down (LWD) and although i was extremely happy with it the first time we watched it. Now I’m not. Theres a good parody on You Tube also. Google that. You should all watch it again.Ewan and Charlie were quite rightly moaning about the speed of transition and especialy Ewan. Rightly so. They skipped seemingly whole countries and missed some of the best stuff. Going to Lalibe […]

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The Replacements.......

As you can see. We have another vehicle for the next trip. She/he will be converted into a camper. […]

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Messy blog

Sorry for the mess, I am overhauling the blog.

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A podcast and some articles!

Just wanted to let everyone out there know of a few things that have happened since finishing up my trip. Justin Long, from Long Riders Radio interviewed me for one of his podcasts. You can listen to it on his … Continue reading →

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Dogs, lakes, hikes and glory days!

After crossing out of Canada at Calais we went to Acadia National Park for a brief visit. It was terribly crowded in the campground, roadways, restaurants and overlooks. So we […]

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Back through New Brunswick and out of Canada, for now.

Returning to the providence of New Brunswick gave us the opportunity to see a couple of things we had missed when we came through before. We made our first stop […]

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Prince Edward Island

We had some terrific experiences on this tiny island! It started with a ferry ride to PEI (as the locals call it) from Nova Scotia. We arrived and spent the […]

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Flowers & Other Beautiful Things

We’ve been traveling for almost 10 months, seems shorter than that at times but then Alaska seems a long time ago, even Mexico seems a life time ago. We’re still Continue Reading →

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Cape Breton- the edge of the world.

This one of the places in the world where a person can feel very small. Everything is so large here. The cliffs are very tall in some places. The forest […]

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The chaos of the rear bumper

This unit began as an original Vanagon bumper and a basic receiver hitch welded to the frame. Then we found an old-style GoWesty hitch mounted swing-away bumper. Finally, we added […]

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