Anton Poplett – on the wrong road for the right reason (part 2)
The back door slammed shut as we finished the seventh school on the itinerary of vision testing around the Okavango Delta. Anton explained the next part of our journey would be taking us into a remote part of Botswana that rarely saw tire tracks most of the year. This year saw particularly heavy rains, and […]
Anton Poplett – on the wrong road for the right reason (part one)
Somewhere deep in Southern Africa, far beyond the paved roads of Cape Town or Johannesburg, there is a man by the name of Anton Poplett. He’s there on a mission, and I had to learn how I could help spread the word. As I flew from Seattle to the unspoiled landscape of Botswana, I looked down […]
Georgia: awe-inspiring, with one of the world’s most treacherous roads
Secret escape! The adventure began in Germany and extended through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Turkey before arriving in Georgia. We were travelling in our 2003 Mercedes-Benz G Wagen and the passengers comprised my wife, Kristin, our children, Julius and Luisa, our dog, Zeus, and myself, Benyamin, behind the wheel. For years, […]
Scandinavia – why this amazing region should be on your Bucket List
After two years of preparation, we left the French Alps on April 18th, 2022, to start our “Next Meridian Expedition.” We, Mathilde and Nick, both 28 years old, left everything behind to travel the world in our 2012 Land Rover Defender 110 TD4 nicknamed Albatross. We moved full-time into our vehicle for a three-year journey […]
Living Legends: Tanja and Denis Katzer
It was during the four years from 1999 to 2003 that Tanja and Denis Katzer were caught in the spotlight on the adventurer and explorer stage, when they embarked upon their world record walk across Australia. A 7,000 km trek from South to North; West to East. Tanja and Denis filmed their caravan of camels […]
Land Roving in 1997 – Amadeus Matzker on the spirit of adventure and exploring North Africa
November was knocking at the door but it wasn’t the weather alone that motivated my friends and I to start planning our next tour to Africa—it had been 10 months since we were last there. It was raining outside as we drank Kölsch, the local beer, in a Cologne bar and channelled our thoughts toward […]
First Overland, London to Singapore – Tim Slessor shares memories of the epic 1955 expedition
The 1955/56 Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition—a milestone in overlanding history as inspirational today as it was 60 years ago. We scroll back to 1955, Tim Slessor was one of a six-man team who pioneered the longest overland trip ever undertaken by a vehicle—London to Singapore. A journey that would take six months and […]
Soaring with Condors – Billy Ward’s first trip to South America on a Triumph Tiger
I left Liverpool, England, with no real idea of what South America was actually like—but it was certainly on my bucket list. Arriving into Santiago, the taxi journey from the airport to Los Condes was an eye opener. I was surprised at how European the city felt, how modern it was. But the snow capped […]
