What? Its Over?

What? Its Over?

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...
Will He Make It?

Will He Make It?

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...
End Scene

End Scene

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...
Pushing Past 3200M

Pushing Past 3200M

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...
Pants Are Optional

Pants Are Optional

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...
Frolicking in The Flowers

Frolicking in The Flowers

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...
Boiling Batteries

Boiling Batteries

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....
Back And Forth

Back And Forth

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...
Retracing Steps

Retracing Steps

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...
Blog 69! hehehe

Blog 69! hehehe

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...
It’ll Hold

It’ll Hold

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...
Round 1 – Fight!

Round 1 – Fight!

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...
Here We Go Again

Here We Go Again

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...
End Scene

End Scene

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...
The Big Stuck

The Big Stuck

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...
Breakfast Of Champions

Breakfast Of Champions

What a day this was, stunning roads, friendly people, and some good food.  We started today with an early rise so we could pack up for our 8am breakfast meet up. And as stated, he is waiting for us at the agreed time. This was one of those early pack ups that once...
Borders, Bacon and Beer

Borders, Bacon and Beer

Ohhh yes, that’s right, today we leave Iran. And head for that sweet sweet country of pork and beer. Our host at the Airbnb (not actually called that, Iran has there own) shows us around the property, it is very well decorated and the rooms are clean. We grab a coffee...
Babak Fort

Babak Fort

Waking up before the sun rises is how we start the day, I quickly pack up the still wet tent from the dew and get the car ready to go, Asareh takes care of the coffee, which is in the travel mugs this morning for the drive out to save time. We start working our way up...
Aliens?

Aliens?

Ohhh… Asareh will love this blog!! But first we must pack up and leave Ireland, the camp was lovely, we even a windless night. Today we are heading to Babak Fort. We wind our way through little towns as much as possible, until we hit construction, and oddly enough we...
We Stop In Ireland

We Stop In Ireland

Well not really, but it sure looked close with the green rolling fields. Packing up in the morning the fog is heavy heavy, maybe 30M visibility, and in some places you can barely see past the hood. This is a nightmare to drive in as the drivers here cant be trusted to...