BLOGS Click on each country of interest and the diary will be listed for each place visited in that country i.e. in Egypt to view Cairo select Cairo. The diary will be updated as often as possible as we go along. Hopefully, we will have lots of interesting stories to tell about all the places we visit and things we have seen. PICTURES To view all the pictures you need to click onto the country you want to look at and all the pictures taken in that country wi...

The vehicle we will be using is a 2007 Nissan Navara 2.5 diesel King Cab 4 x 4 pick up. Even though the vehicle was brand new it had to have extensive work done to it to enable it to travel the rough roads of Africa. All preparation work on vehicle carried out by:- Overland Expedition Company, Devon www.OEC4X4.com Speacialist Leisure, Warrington www.specialist-leisure.co.uk Easy Lifter, Loughborough www.easylifter.co.uk Replaced Front And Rear Suspension ...

After much searching in the U.K. and Europe we eventually found what we were looking for in Denver, Colorado, USA. The camper is an aluminium frame with a fibreglass shell bonded to the framework making it lightweight and strong. Hopefully, this should stand up to the rough terrain we will experience on our journey through Africa to Cape Town. The camper fits on the back of our 4x4 pick up and can be taken off easily whenever required. The roof pops up to reveal...

We went on three courses to help us brush up on skills we would need. St John's Ambulance First Aid Course 4X4 Course We went on an day's course run by www.parkwood4x4.com which is as an introduction to driving off road. GPS Training A excellent two day course called getting started with GPS & Digital Maps run by www.gpstraining.co.uk A very useful course for anyone interesting in using GPS

The preparation and research for this trip has take over our lives for the past 10 months or so and we have spent many hours researching in books and on the internet. To complicate matters further Peter has been putting in many hours training for two triathlons in which he has competed which has involved spinning classes every morning preceded by a half mile in the pool and the pounding of many miles of tarmac. We started the actual preparation for the journey w...