I’m 30 years old and just about to start writing my Master’s thesis about seal behavior. I study biology with a focus on marine mammal behavior. When I start my project my van will be my office for a year.
Right this moment I’m traveling in my van named Fudde; a VWT4 from 1995, so she’s quite an old lady. Right now I travel around Denmark, Scandinavia, which is also my home country.
Read MoreHello, I am Loes Bazelmans from the Netherlands and just started my second overland journey with my boyfriend Harm.
In 2017 and ‘18 we drove from the Netherlands to Central Asia & Mongolia and back in 20 months. What an amazing experience! During this trip we decided to arrange our lives in such a way that we can keep traveling. So here we are, ready to take off for a new adventure on a new continent AND with a new vehicle!
Read MoreBefore taking things on the road, I worked in the magazine and media world for brands spanning the the travel, outdoor and motorcycle industries. We just completed our first 25,000 mile long-term overlanding trip, from California to Argentina (and partially back up) and we’re now gear up for phase two: South Africa to England. It’d been a wild ride and looking forward to continuing the explore the world by vehicle.
Read MoreHi, I'm Yasha, I'm Australian, I'm 65 years old and I've always been a traveller. My husband, Juergen, and I are overlanding full-time in our self-built camper, carried by Bertita. Our first overlanding experience together was 2006-2009. We sold our home, and most other things we owned, and bought a pickup truck and slide-in camper in the USA. Our plan was to travel for as long as we wanted or until we had seen all we wanted to see. This journey took us from the Arctic Circle in Canada to Ushuaia in Argentina.
Read MoreHello! My name is Joanie, also known as Violette, most likely due to my visible love for the color (it is the best color) and up until about 2 years ago, I was working as a programmer in the game industry. After working in front of a computer for nearly 12 years, I decided to quit my job and sell most of my belongings to become a road warrior and drive my Jeep, Beauty, to the end of the world! In short, this is just a fun way to say that I am driving the Pan-American Highway from Alaska to Ushuaia.
Read MoreMy fiancé and I have been together since high school and have always wanted to travel together. In 2009, shortly after graduating college, we embarked on our first road trip where we toured the U.S. for six months living in the back of our ’96 Dodge Ram pickup. It was a very simple life and we fell in love with life on the road immediately. In 2012, we decided to take our travels further and drove the same truck with the same set up from Maine, USA to Argentina following the Pan American Highway. We took two years to complete this trip and knew this would be a lifestyle we would need to incorporate in our lives no matter what. Since then, we have had a couple different travel rigs that we take to Baja in the winter. We take four months off each winter and travel across the U.S to Baja and back. Currently, we are in Baja enjoying our new rig- an ’07 Dodge Ram with a Four Wheel Camper!
Read MoreMy name is Margie and my Husband and I are overlanding the world with our two-year-old son Sebastian. We hope to spend the next 2-3 years driving from our home in Australia to the UK. I have a PhD in Marine Science but wanted to do something different with my life, so we quit our jobs, sold our house and all our belongings and hit the road. I was actually 37 weeks pregnant at the time we did all this, and we jumped in our car and drove the 5000km across Australia (its very remote and a little terrifying when you are that pregnant) so that I could have the baby closer to our families. A year after that we left Australia to begin our around the world overland trip. We have been on the road for the past 9 months.
Read MoreHello there! British born, I’m Lisa Morris and my fella is Jason Spafford, we’re self-proclaimed wilderness-seekers at Four Wheeled Nomad. Remote exploration is the driving force, enabling our skillset as content creators. After combining our love for diving and photography since childhood, during a decade of experiencing the world below the waterline, a change was eventually overdue.
Read MoreWe are the Southbound Sea hags, Dechiara and Somer, traveling with our 3 dogs (Chula, Brother, and Nola). We were living in Santa Rosa Beach, FL when we both realized we were completely burnt out in our careers and began looking to downsize and find another living/working situation. I, Somer, worked in the offshore oil and gas industry while Dechiara worked in the local restaurant scene. So with the summer of 2018 drawing to a close we quickly sold our stuff, rented our house, and moved into our slightly used pop up camper. We have always been intrigued with Latin America and its culture so driving the Pan American Highway was a logical choice for us. Although our route has never been mapped out completely we would like to make it to Uruguay or even further South. For us this journey is mostly about the people we meet and the adventures we have. The destination is not a huge part of the concept of the trip.
Read MoreI’m Evelin, from Hungary and have been overlanding on and off since 2017. Along with Ferenc, we’re looking to overland pretty much full-time from next year (2020).
We’ve done several overland adventures in the past, with two major trips in 2018. At the beginning of the year we’ve taken part in an overland rally driving from Budapest to The Gambia and then we took off on a 20,000 mile trip driving from Budapest to Singapore. We’ve been travelling with a 2006 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado with a roof-top tent, and otherwise very basic gear. The biggest luxury we have is a 12v Engel Fridge. So far I’ve been overlanding on 3 continents (as I mentioned, with Ferenc) but looking to explore another 3! At the moment we’re looking to buy a 4x4 van and try the off-road van life for a while. It definitely needs to be a 4x4 van, not a regular one, as in my experience, the best places can be found far from the main roads.
Read MoreWe’re a family of three based out of South East Queensland Australia travelling our ‘epic’ continent in search of adventure, new experiences and memories.
In Australia we have a term for travelling around the country; it’s called ‘Doing the Big Lap’. Families load up the car, the 4wd, the caravan, throw the kids and the pooch in the back and head off around the vast Southern Land together on their trip of a lifetime.
Read MoreGrowing up in Brazil I spent a lot of time in nature. I went on lots of camping trips with my parents and the scouts. I lost track of how much I enjoyed being in nature until my partner and I moved to New Zealand. We bought our landcruiser and started going on road trips every weekend and longer whenever we could get the time off work.
We started with just a mattress in the back and our jetboil and we were happy. We didn’t feel like we needed much more. We loved going on 4wd convoy adventures with our friends, making a fire and just being in the middle of nowhere in a valley somewhere in the South Island of New Zealand.
I have always enjoyed outdoor adventure ever since I was a young child, I was the kid who always had a bit of dirt on their face even when I tried hard to stay clean. It started with family camping trips and I kept taking it a bit further getting into rock climbing at a young age and moved into backpacking in the Rocky Mountains in high school.
Adventure cycling was a natural progression for me; my first trip was when I graduated university in 2012 and toured the western US and learned a lot and promised myself I would not repeat all the mistakes I made. Now I am 23000 km into cycling the Pan American Highway and loving it!
Read MoreI started my overlanding addiction, at age 29, with a solo trip from the Netherland to Indonesia in 2016. I traveled through Russia, Central Asia, India, South East Asia until my final destination of Bali. On my way I met an amazing man, who became my boyfriend. We decided to go back to Europe to plan a new adventure together. So after 1 year saving and planning from home we left again to do Cape to Cape, Norway to South Africa. We just finished this trip and are now back to saving and adjusting to work life again to fill the bank.
Read MoreBefore my boyfriend and I started our overland journey we lived and worked in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our life was completely different than our current life as we spend most of our time in the office. I worked as a lawyer at an international law firm.
In the fall of 2017 our offer on a house in Amsterdam was accepted. As usual in Amsterdam, paying more than the list price of a house and some luck was the reason for our success. That same evening we went through our finances again and laughingly said to each other "weird to think that for the amount that we are outbid we can also travel for about two years." When the next day it turned out that the purchase was canceled, we knew it. We are going on a trip! In about two years we drive from the Netherlands to Nepal and back.
Read MoreMy name is Candice and I’m a professional illustrator/ concept artist in the work world. I’ve been most recently responsible for creating and executing the look and design of children’s games at a studio in Vancouver BC. You’ll constantly find me drawing cartoons, catching up on art freelance or teaching kids how to draw. My husband Jordan and I have overlanded in different rigs over the last 6 years.
Read MoreHi- I’m Angela from The United States. Bode’s mom. Before my family decided to hit the road, I was a marketing director and a California transplant, feeling a bit lost pursuing the American dream. We planned a ‘one year sabbatical’ to reassess our future priorities and goals and make an effort to live more deliberately. That was 10 years ago, and now my 14 year-old son has grown up all over the world. We have traveled through North and South America and Europe. We are now in Norway - our 45th country over land.
Read MoreHi, my name is Lilli, a 60+ from Germany and I’m overlanding Eastern and Southern Africa solo in my 30+ year old Toyota Landcruiser. I’m somehow hooked on Africa, although I also travelled backpacking in Asia and vehicle-bound extensively in Australia and Europa as well. But I lost my heart to Africa.
Read MoreI worked in digital advertising before quitting my job last year and hitting the road with my husband. We’ve put all our belongings into a storage unit and moved into our trusty Land Rover Defender (@mkulu_the_landy) to travel Southern Africa from Cape Town to Malawi and back.
We’ve been overlanding for the past 6 months and traveled to 6 countries, stayed at 60 campsites and still have a few more kilometres to travel before we arrive back in Cape Town.
Read MoreHi, I’m Karin-Marijke, from the Netherlands. I had been working for an in-house catering company for ten years and was ready for a change when I met Coen. He wanted to travel the world and asked me to join him and I immediately said yes. In May 2003 we set off and took 3.5 years to drive from the Netherlands via Iran, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh to Southeast Asia. From Malaysia we shipped the Land Cruiser to Argentina with the idea to drive to Alaska in 3 or 4 years. 9 years later we were still in South America…
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