Colombia Day here today. But nothing to celebrate from our/my end though. Since heading south from the Carribean Coast I have had some unwelcome travelling companions with me, well more to the point, in me. You see, I have picked up some Amoebic friends that have, and still are lunching on my intestine. This they do very well. So well in fact that I have been hospitalized for various amounts of time at different truckstop clinics on no less than three separate oc...

Well FARC me! Finally arrived at Cartagena, Colombia on the 30th June. We broke the trip up into four legs, Melb to Syd, Syd to Santiago, Chile, Santiago to Bogota, Colombia ("Colombia not Columbia", as the locals have printed on their T shirts, to educate ignorant barstards, like me), and Bogota to Cartegena. This was a futile attempt, as it turned out, to lesson the impact of such a long trip on two pension aged Aussies. I tried to explain the trials and tr...

Keen to avoid another Tasmanian winter and experience other places and cultures we are on the move again. Our last taste of Overland travel did nothing to satisfy our urge to travel outside Australia. Our previous travels through North America, parts of Europe and Africa did convince me that I travel way to fast in my attempt to 'see what is over the next hill'.

Heading east from Katherine the traveler is offered a plethora of route options. We chose the Savannah Way which tends to hug the Gulf of Carpentaria although at no time does the Gulf coastline ever come into view. This invention of the tourism marketing people up here runs from Broome WA right across to Cairns in Qld through, well, Savannah. Now what do you get when you combine Savanna with, in the main, flat terrain. Bored is what you can get if you don't notic...