http://youtu.be/Yd_0l5a0TBY
Travel volunteering overlander, earthship building community member, tropical enviro life affirming unconsumerist or just looking for a cool, awesome place to hang out for a [...]
Apr 072013
Resources
Here you’ll find all our resources, posts and links that will inform and inspire you. There are stories about traveling in general and traveling in a truck; there are reports on specific countries or borders, lots of how-to articles and reviews of specific museums, attractions, festivals and the like; and there’s friendly advice on how to live a more globally connected, responsible and awesome life wherever you are… Use the search to find something in particular or browse the map that shows all resource posts.
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Mar 022013
It has always been a belief of mine that there is never a single, correct way to cook anything, even apple crumble. There is always [...]
Aug 192012
Central American borders can get real funky – Central American borders and dogs even more so. Below you’ll see our limited experience of 2012, a [...]
Aug 092012
Here’s how to renew your 30-day papers for your vehicle in Panama: Step One: Go to Suramericana Insurance Office in BellaVista to buy another month’s [...]
Aug 062012
Protect and track a laptop - last week, in this beautiful city we had a laptop stolen from our truck: not only were we stupid enough [...]
Aug 042012
Going on vacation generally means two things for us time-poor city-dwellers: firstly, we’re somewhere where you can actually see the skies away from the usual [...]
Jul 302012
A large number of overlanders fund their travels by working on the road, from country to country. They prove that a very long, overland journey [...]
Jul 132012
Heat and humidity – how to survive it when you’re traveling around in a truck in the tropics: Hanging around countries like Panama, it is [...]
Jun 242012
http://youtu.be/DaZJUgF5ph8
Volunteering overlander sounds like a German word for a regiment of mountain fire fighters. Actually it is what we have become for a couple of [...]
May 202012
People had been warning us for weeks about how expensive Costa Rica is – so we’d stocked up with food, smokes and a bottle of Flor [...]
May 072012
A few days after leaving Nicaragua, I read a report from some overlanders with a right-hand drive vehicle across the Nicaraguan northern border. They said [...]
May 032012
Our first conversation in Nicaragua, with an actual Nico, went something like this: “Hi, where are you from?”, “Portugal – my husband [yeah, me] is [...]
Apr 282012
This article is about how to build a shower in a camper-van or converted truck or bus. I believe my plan is the cheapest, most [...]
Apr 202012
It’s not often that we write so specifically about what we are doing – I really wouldn’t want to bore you with our day-to-day. And [...]
Apr 012012
Not so much on the internet about this border but it’s an easy, quiet one and if you want to stay on the Costa Garifuna, [...]
Mar 282012
Tikal is an utterly amazing set of structures deep in a National Park. Many things come together to make this ancient Mayan city so much [...]
Mar 262012
You know when you’re at a big party with loads of people, there’s a cheap bar and a pretty full-on sound system stacking it up [...]
Feb 272012
Place and time: Enforced three week stay in Mexico City waiting for a new passport to be sorted out. Cash: Not much at all – [...]
Feb 202012
When you make an arch you use framework to keep all the bricks in place until you install the keystone – the piece in the [...]
Feb 072012
Teotihuacan is 50 klicks northwest of Mexico City – a pleasant couple of days out of town – just remember to have a good charge [...]
Jan 072012
Basically with mousetraps. The ones that kill. We found around 4 kg of dog food that the mice had nicked from Vaga’s food bowl. They [...]
Dec 062011
We’re passing by Berkeley, the home of BOINC, but we don’t have time to stop and check it out. No real loss, eh? Probably nothing [...]
Oct 282011
http://youtu.be/8BSidUKgYIo
Link to article about driving overland round the world
Sep 142011
An event that started in 1986 on Baker’s Beach, San Francisco, moved to the Black Rock Desert, Nevada a few years later and has grown [...]
Jul 302011
I haven’t communed with the Rainbow People since the early nineties moments before the digital era. Back then, we were a little more interested in [...]
Jun 012011
May 182011
The earth circuit remains the same of course – grounded somewhere along the line, hopefully, into terra firma. But the other two – Live and [...]
Jan 232011
Driving through Russia represented a big unknown on our trip around the world. It’s always interesting, now that we have completed that section, to think [...]
Oct 102010
One of the more spectacular temple complexes in South Korea awaited us a few hours drive further into the mountains of the east central area. [...]
Oct 072010
The biggest limestone cave in Asia. I don’t know whether that makes it the biggest cave of any kind or whether you can get bigger [...]