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...
Jan 4, 2023 | Asia, Featured
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...
Jan 3, 2023 | Asia, Featured
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...
Jan 3, 2023 | Asia, Featured
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...
Jan 2, 2023 | Asia, Featured
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...
Oct 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
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...
Oct 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Upon packing the wagon and loading Pina up, we meet the hosts again who want to see the car, and chat with us before we head on our way, this is sometimes tough to do as you want to chat, but it will turn in to a meal and 5 hours so you sometimes do have to cut it...
Oct 17, 2022 | Asia, Featured
In the Caspian Sea today, woooo. We wake up to a stunning sunrise as it lights up the mountains behind camp, although quite cold we make a coffee while packing up to speed to process. The wagon idles away, somewhat loudly, getting our bum heaters warm and giving the...
Oct 14, 2022 | Asia
Ohhh this is a good one, we step back to the 2021 trip for the last time to fill in a small side track we did, We visit the Teymareh petroglyphsin the Golpayegan region. This area has rock art from over 7000 years ago with some ranging to over 30000 years old. It was...
Sep 20, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Today we hammer north to Tehran, but first, I witness the most arched semi-trailer ever, I mean just look at it (Look below) its crazy, why? That’s way too much arch for such a short trailer. Any whooo… we basically head straight past Tehran, maybe next time I will...
Sep 19, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Its time, the call has come. I must return to work. So we turn north, as we will be storing the wagon in Armenia. The tears flow… our drive north back to Isfahan is lovely, with a stop to hike to a water fall, plus just overall being in the highland version of the...
Sep 19, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Today is the big day, Asareh has been going on and on about Persepolis for ages now, and today we finally visit. Now you have to think back to this time, rocking up and there are columns that looks 30m tall, horses at the gate. I mean, it’s absolutely wild. I will...
Sep 18, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Back in the present, we are now aiming south to head for Shiraz, a city chocked full of architecture and history. The drive is along decent enough highways, well sorta decent, there are some crazy rough patches but most is high speed. The cat, as per the norm is out...
Sep 15, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Todays back track is from our adventure the Mashad, It was one of the places we just had to hit on our first trip. And was it ever worth it. We start with an adventure on an old 777, it’s a bit rough due to sanctions. But we get there. Of course the airport food is...
Sep 14, 2022 | Asia, Featured
Where to start? We start by going full tourist mode and hitting up all the Big sites so this blog will be mainly a blog with pictures and links to Wikipedia to learn about the locations. Can’t tale a dirty car So lets start shall we! Stop #1: Hasht Behesht, a...
