Monthly Archives: August 2011 During the week Brian finished working on the new headlights. The car is now almost ready to go for its first inspection! However, that turned out to not go the way we had planned, but we’ll see what happens, it might work out alright. The matter of what to do with the car during winter […] A while back we sat glued to the couch watching Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel around the world on motorbikes as one of our tv channel showed a rerun of the documentary. We knew they had also done a trip from Europe to Africa and just recently we managed to get hold of the […] It might seem weird that we spend so much time working on the car if it was already equipped for a long trip. It sure was, but there are different reasons to why we’re doing modifications to it: – After some research we knew importing it into Sweden was the best option. (There’s really no […]  The title is The Ultimate Africa Atlas, and it sure is a good name. It has country maps, city maps and a great selection of national parks to visit and sights to see all across the continent. This […] When are you leaving? We’re hoping to be able to leave Sweden in August 2012. We thought it would be a good date since it will be Brian’s anniversary to how many years he’s spent here, but there are more practical reasons to it as well. That way we leave in the warm season and […]  Okay, so soon after making the decision to do the trip, we started looking for a car. From reading other overlanders blogs and doing research, we realized that the sooner we have the car, the sooner we can really start preparing for the trip. The car is the biggest expense and once you have it, […]  Yesterday we had a much appreciated visit from Nicklas Lautakoski, who together with two friends rode motorbikes from Nordkap in Norway to Cape Town in South Africa not very long ago. I heard about Nicklas in May when he was going to talk about his trip at the outdoor shop AddNature here in Stockholm. I […] |
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