MARSABIT to MOYALE

    HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London across Africa. If you are new to our site, you are most welcome. It is Gareth here today and I wanted to to share with you our time in Northern Kenya on a notorious stretch of road from Marsabit to Moyale – a […]

GIN AND JOY, AT JOY’S CAMP

    HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London overland via Africa. It’s Kirsty here today writing about finding luxury at Joy’s Camp in remote Northern Kenya.     Driving through remote Northern Kenya has been one of the absolute highlights of our journey through Africa. This region of the continent is […]

WAITING GAME

HELLO + WELCOME as we stall in our journey from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty typing today.   After exhausting all options in Kampala and Nairobi we made the decision to send our passports home to Australia in order to get our Ethiopia visa. We spoke with the embassy in Canberra and the […]

WRAP UP {EDITION 39}

  HELLO + WELOME as we attempt to drive from Sydney to London via Africa. It’s Kirsty here with the regular Wrap Up of stuff that’s happening outside the main stories.     OUR ROUTE SO FAR     The above pic shows our exact route so far recorded by our Garmin GPS. Since driving […]

NO, REALLY, CANCEL YOUR PLANS

HELLO + WELCOME as we attempt to drive from Sydney to London in our trusty old LandCruiser. It’s Kirsty writing today.     When we first entered Kenya our plan was to drive to the Masai Mara National Park, Nairobi and then North towards Ethiopia within a week. All of those plans changed when G […]

INSIDE THE RIG

  HELLO + WELCOME. You guys have asked for some more pics of inside our rig. I took these images today and as you can see, everything is holding up real well after such a long time on the road. Enjoy!     :: A view from the ‘lounge’ to the front of the seats. […]

SICK IN KENYA

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive up from Sydney to London. It’s Gareth here today. Well, it was bound to happen. One of us would get sick in Africa and true to fashion it was me.       It was about 12pm by the time we reached the border town of Busia in Eastern Kenya. […]

CROSS THE EQUATOR AND CANCEL YOUR PLANS

  HELLO + WELCOME as we attempt to drive from Sydney to London through Africa. Here’s how we went a week or so ago in Uganda. It’s Kirsty here today.     After fourteen months on the road we drove into the Northern Hemisphere. Stoked as can be we celebrated with a freshly cooked chipati! […]

PATCHWORK HILLS + A TRACK TO REMEMBER

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive across three continents. It’s Kirsty here today, let’s go.     Before we managed to reach Uganda we spent a self-imposed ‘weekend’ doing some housekeeping. We pulled out the fridge and gave it a good clean and tightened up the bolts. Washed our curtains. Dusted everything. Backed-up everything. […]