Category Archives: overlanding Unpacking all the gear from our partner Kama Fritid really made us feel that the trip is coming closer! We couldn’t really hide our excitement as we went through everything, from car maintenance products to kitchen accessories to safety gear… This was simply a great collection of gear that will come very much in handy […]  This evening we’ve spent hours sitting like this. Sometimes completely soaked up by our own screens, sometimes discussing something. One looking at car spares, one doing research on travel blogs. After filling out forms, making decisions, reading more travel blogs, scratching our heads, going from despair to hope and back and back again. One of […]  A while ago we started discussing what would be the best way to boil water during the trip. It will be an everyday matter pretty much and all the everyday things have to be as easily accessible and as easy to handle and as quick and smooth as possible because otherwise you will just get […] We found these guys’ videos this weekend and couldn’t help but watch each one of them. When I see things like this I want to do it so bad I get close to tears. Thanks, Nick and Joanne, for the inspiration this weekend! This is a short summary of the entire trip, to see the […]  We are very excited to welcome Garmin onboard this exciting journey! We met again this weekend and sealed the deal and Brian and I are thrilled. Garmin will be supporting us both financially and with GPS equipment. We took the chance of meeting up with Mattias from Garmin again this weekend, since he is normally […]  Sorry about the silence on the blog during all of last week. Last week was a bit hectic because we got car trouble, not with the cruiser but with our everyday work horse, our Peugeot. During the past four years or so that we’ve had it, it’s never broken down completely and left us standing, […] The first few weeks of contacting potential sponsors have really made me realize how hard it is and how long it will take. I didn’t think it would be easy or over in a week, but I’m really starting to understand the immensity of it. To be honest, I had my moments in the beginning […] As things aren’t progressing very well – or at least a little slow and unpredictably – in Syria, sadly, we have lately started realizing that we might have to reconsider our route quite a bit. We’ve been reluctant to do so – since we both badly want to go to Jordan. There aren’t really any […] |
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