A BUSTED LANDCRUISER : PART 1

  HELLO + WELCOME  as we drive our trusty old Landcruiser from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Gareth typing today and if you are new here, you are most welcome.     So, there we are driving through one of the most famous National Parks in the World.  After leaving a small side track searching […]

WHAT WOULD WE HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY ON OUR RIG + SET-UP?

    HELLO + WELCOME to a long-awaited post on our rig. We have been receiving a LOT of questions about our set-up. Last week we posted about the gear we love and today we post about what we could have done differently. Take it away Gareth…     First things first, we love our rig and set-up. Overall we […]

A WALK WITH THE HIMBA PEOPLE

  HELLO + WELCOME. It’s G here today sitting back on the banks on the Okavango River, re-living our time with the Himba people. Kirst and I visited a village in the far north Kunene region of Namibia. I want to share this with you because I have always found these people so fascinating and think […]

WHAT WE LIKE ABOUT OUR RIG + SET UP

    HELLO + WELCOME as always. We are 80 or so days into the African leg of the expedition and all is going well. We started this life changer on the 22nd of March 2013. The car has been running smoothly (well apart from the overheating problems), we are both healthy and we are […]

Tracking Desert Rhino In Damaraland

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London via Africa. Right now we are hitting our 39,000th kilometre of the expedition. This latest story comes live from a rocky track in Damaraland, Namibia.     “I didn’t think places like this still existed in Africa”, I said to Gareth as I looked […]

Celebrating In Windhoek At The Olive Exclusive

  HELLO + WELCOME as we roll from Sydney to London, via Africa. As we go we will be sharing our experience with you. Feel free to dive on in and say ‘Hi’ in the comments below.     Driving North from the dunes of Namib-Nukluft National Park we headed towards Namibia’s capital Windhoek. We […]

Whispered Words Atop Dune-45

    HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa. As we roll we will be sharing our experience with you. Feel free to dive on in and to leave us a comment below.       We drove North from the  D707 track and headed towards Namibia’s Capital to get a few […]

The Most Beautiful Road In Namibia: The D707

      HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa. As we roll we are sharing our expedition with you. Feel free to give us a yell in the comments below.     About a year or so ago my mate Craig, in Cape Town, emailed us a few photos […]

INTO NAMIBIA WE GO

    As we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa, we are sharing our expedition with you. Feel free to read on and say ‘Hi’ in the comments below.     We entered Namibia through the Kalahari Desert at Mata Mata border post. Even though we crossed borders when we dipped into Lesotho, as […]

KALAHARI DESERT {Part 2: !XAUS}

  As we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa, we are sharing our expedition with you. Feel free to read on and say ‘Hi’ in the comments below. In our most recent blog post we wrote about entering the Kalahari, here we write about our experience as we headed deeper into the park. Fresh […]