Category Archives: overlanding

Watching the news

We’re right now following the latest reports on BBC World News on tv on the situation in Libya. They’re saying Khaddafi’s regime could be over within 10 days as the rebels are closing in on Tripoli. This is great news, most importantly for the Libyan people of course, but also when it comes to our […]

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Perspectives

It’s funny how the human mind quickly adapts to thinking that something is perfectly normal, simply from spending a lot of time doing it. It’s hit me a few times how this project doesn’t strike us as very odd anymore. We’ve said the sentence “we’re driving from here to Africa” so many times now that […]

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The Long Way Down

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 […]

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Some FAQ’s at this point

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 […]

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A visit from another traveller

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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