Dec 16, 2024 | Asia, Featured
We all knew this post would happen, I mean I was just at Karahan Tepe a few days back.. you cant expect me not to stop at Göbeklitepe to see what its all about. Dating back to 12000 years ago, there is a bit of everything from obelisks to general simple carvings which...
Dec 16, 2024 | Asia, Featured
We start our day in Mardin looking for coffee, and we do succeed of course, this is Turkiye after all. We begin by walking around the old town and wandering down side streets. We even pulled into a nice shop and bought some wine, there was also a cute kitten that had...
Dec 16, 2024 | Asia, Featured
TURN ADN BURN BABY!! It sounds cool, but we didn’t really burn, more like a 3 point turn at the border then slowly worked our way home starting with a mangal on the way to Van, the road started nice, then got wild. And by wild I mean narrow with a few 100 meter drop...
Dec 16, 2024 | Asia, Featured
For once the call wasn’t related to work. It was worse, This is back when Syria and Iran had a slight little missile exchange, With the news not looking good and airports closing, Asareh made the choice to meet me at the border with Turkiye. It’s a quick pack followed...
Dec 16, 2024 | Asia, Featured
Well, with some free time and a spare vehicle, I found a bit of time to run around near Antalya, we will start these little warm ups heading for Ucansu Falls just over an hour away, For living so close its taken me ages to make my way out here. The drive was lovely...
Oct 10, 2023 | Asia, Featured
With an icy start I crawl out of a rather warm tent, this heater is seriously worth every penny. With coffee boiling and eggs and bacon (read a full pack of bacon) I start the car which is running oddly rough this morning. It’s slightly missing, I think the glow plugs...
Oct 10, 2023 | Asia, Featured
We roll the dice yet again if Georgia will finally let me cross into the country after all the paperwork fiasco of last time. But of course I first had to wash rinse repeat my normal start up procedure of getting the rig out of storage, washing it, fueling it up, then...
Jan 8, 2023 | Asia, Featured
The final blog of this chapter, we wake extra early to make the most of the day, with a final vacuum complete, Pina walks through the car with dirty paws to inspect. He looks unimpressed. Either way, its clean enough, we place the vehicle in storage and lock the...
Jan 8, 2023 | Asia, Featured
This is it, our last day with the wagon on the road. We cross directly over the mountains and straight to Goght, which is where we will spend the night. The pass is huge and ticks just over 3200 meters. The wagon, suffering from a fan hub issues and now a bad...
Jan 8, 2023 | Asia, Featured
Ahh yes, what do you do when you have a private area next to a lake, go swimming of course, well not fully swimming, but we at least got wet. Not much going on these 2 days, ohhh except, remember the plums? Well we had sugar so Asareh made jam. Now that is how you do...
Jan 8, 2023 | Asia, Featured
Today, I make sure we use the good camera a bit more as we are going to drive a route suggested to us from the campsite we store the wagon at. I spend the morning trying to photograph some birds. They are much to fast for the setup I am using. But I will keep...
Jan 6, 2023 | Asia, Featured
Our day begins very uneventful, a nice wake up. Coffee, followed by a smoothie. While Asareh is around the car relaxing, I grab a bowl and get crackin, I have found black berry’s and by sacrificing my super sexy legs I wade into the shrubbery for our delicious meal....
Jan 6, 2023 | Asia, Featured
We absolutely love camping next to water, either rivers or lakes. It means we get a clean up in the morning and we don’t need to stress about our water supplies. Plus, its calming, you know all that nature crap people love so much. Back at the task at hand, we are...
Jan 5, 2023 | Asia, Featured
Well today we will pick up on a road we drove in a rental last time we were in Armenia, mainly because the views are stunning and there is a lovely little river in the valley to camp at. We have forgotten its Saturday though… this could be problematic. Our drive...
Jan 5, 2023 | Asia, Featured
One day I will grow up, but not today. Either way, today is our lazy travel day, after yesterdays blow out distance and time wise, we have decided to drive a massive 90kms. That’s it. Were done. As a bonus our first town has some cool cranes! And everyone (Me) loves...
Jan 5, 2023 | Asia, Featured
After a full day in town, in which we covered the whole town top to bottom looking for a fan hub, even the Toyota dealership was paid a visit as I knew they had the special oil I was after. Which, fun fact – is only available for Australia and not for sale in...
Jan 5, 2023 | Asia, Featured
Well, not fighting with people, just with the car. This is our first attempt at highway in the 40c heat, and let me tell you these mountains are giving me grief, as its mostly below 60kmh where we need the fan to aid, so we struggle, it never overheats, but it gets to...
Jan 4, 2023 | Asia
A short blog, As we are just getting the wagon back out of storage for a small trip. There are some niggling issues starting to show their ugly heads, mainly the viscous hub is failing, but its original, so its done very well. I noticed it getting a bit warm on the...
Jan 4, 2023 | Asia
With our flight in 2 days it is time to strip the wagon down and clean everything. I mean even the tent comes off. We vacuum and wash the tent, the storage boxes, and even add the country flags we have missed. Even smelt clean! Spotless! Adding stickers But of course...
Jan 4, 2023 | Asia, Featured
Well, when you wake up fresh and figure, you know what I feel like digging for 2 hours straight, the best thing to do is ignore the locals advice and go have a crack at the trail. And honestly, we had a very good start till we got to the 6km mark, snow, very hard...
