After seven years travelling around the world and recording our journey in our blog 2aussiesglobal we have decided to continue blogging on a new site. Our next destination is South America, and our new blog is: aussieglobaltracks.blogspot. Hope you join us on our continued adventures driving our old Landrover Defender to beautiful and remote places on this wonderful planet of ours. Gael and Rob.

It is great to hear the coyote’s howling around our camp. Because of the relatively small and scattered human population on the Baja, we are remote enough to hear the coyote’s calling to their neighbour’s nearly every night and early in the morning. They put the wind up Gael one morning at the site we now call Coyote Camp. Gael had beaten me out of the truck for our morning walk, and had been gone about fifteen minutes when she heard the Coyote...

Time to take a break from applying ointment to Gael for awhile. More on that later. We managed to exit the USA on the 29th Sept, two days before our visa’s were due to expire, so we have left the door open to return, if we choose, to by getting out on time, although there can be complications in obtaining a new visa. We will miss all the camping in National Forests and on BLM land. So much free to access public land in the States. It dwarfs Australia in ...

We have bumped along the Oregon coast and seen some very nice views of headlands and coastal forests. Unfortunately like most forests in the world these days they are all regrowth. One can only imagine what sort of diversity of flora and fauna they would have supported in the past before they were all bowled over. Well thats not quite true, as a "massive" four percent of redwoods still survive, thanks to the efforts of some far sighted individuals. Whether it's ...

The area around Denver, or the parts we have seen of it, on the two occasions we have been here, provide all you could possibly need to have an active outdoor lifestyle. It is situated in a very beautiful part of the world in which it would be easy to live. Of course we have never been there in winter, when I imagine it would be cold enough to freeze the balls of a _ _. Well you know the rest. Had the crew at JC’s British & 4x4 in Englewood, Color...