The challenge? To design + execute an awesome, liveable, mobile home from our 1989 Toyota Troop Carrier. We’ll be working with a 5m³ living quarters and we must design it to get us to where we need to be and to sustain us in remote areas. In our home on wheels our aim is to […]
Surely it can’t be Wednesday already? This past week has flown by like it’s nobody’s business. The Troopy is still in the garage – for those new to the site, we are having our Toyota Troop Carrier converted into having a pop-top roof – and it is begging to come home. And home it […]
Hope you’re all having a cracker of a week! We would like to send out a big HELLO + WELCOME to anyone who is new to Aussie Overlanders. Especially to the awesome overlanders and 4WD lovers we met over the weekend at the Sydney 4WD and Adventure Show. We are on a bit of […]
1. THE AFRICA OVERLAND NETWORK Loving… how Africa Overland Network brings together the (delightfully insane) overland community. 2. TRAVEL MANIACS Loving… this step by step photo blog of Travel Maniacs Troopy Conversion and interior build. This is VERY close to what we want to do with our 4X4. Inspiration to the max. 3. WOMEN ON WHEELS […]
Well hello you good-looking, adventurous fox! Let’s dive right in, shall we? Here goes with 9 great travel books that are lesser known, and altogether GREAT. And personally get us throthing at the mouth to hit the road next year as Aussie Overlanders. 1. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (click to buy book here) “It […]
Is it just us or is time moving monumentally fast at the moment? There are CHRISTMAS decorations popping up at the supermarket and the year ‘feels’ like it is drawing to a close. Well STOP IT World, it is only October and we all have a load more living and doing to get done in the […]
1. RIDE TO RIO Loving… watching the start of an around the globe adventure as these dudes set off to CYCLE from L.A. to Rio 2. OLLY & LISA’S BIG TRIP Loving… their amazing photos of overlanding through Western Australia {soon to hit Africa!} 3. NOMADIC MATT Loving… the inspiration on […]
Welcome to our regular post where we wrap up what’s been going on in the World of Aussie Overlanders. The past week in a word? Inspiring! Because of YOU! Here’s a few of your words… “I have goosebumps as I read through your website. And a few close tears as I write this. It’s so […]
Loads of travel photos and small gems of information make for the perfect mix of inspiration at this early stage of planning our road-trip. So, last night we had a session soaking up the entire Tasmania section of photographer Steve Parish’s book The Around Australia Guide. Followed by a hunt for valuable morsels of info online. Read on […]
We thought it would be fun to do a regular wrap up of what’s been happening in the World of Aussie Overlanders. Rather than leave this space empty until our first update from the road, wouldn’t it be fun if you came along the ENTIRE journey with us? Well the journey starts here baby, jump […]