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Around the world in 10 years
I know EricD has had a similar adventure, albeit not as long or as far, but just as adventurous in Africa, I'm sure.
The link goes to the website of a couple who started out in Barcelona, Spain, and have literally driven around the world (with stops aboard ships to cross oceans). They've been on the road now for 15 years. http://viajeros4x4x4.com/category/in-english/ Quote:
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Some real good advice there. I'm glad there's YouTube to use to travel.
It is sure as heck a lot cheaper. May not be as tangible, but is good enough for MY interest, most of the time. I don't like the SMELL of foreign countries, as a rule. |
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I'm getting itchy feet, if you haven't noticed.
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"They won't shoot were Americans." From the movie Spies Like Us.
Sanders be careful traveling the world these days. I to love to travel, but remember most all countries yah visit yah can't have a weapon and the locals may just be armed.
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Sanders, fwiw, here's the rute I used a year to complete:
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I'd only heard snippets of your trip, but never seen this map. That's an awesome trip. I'd like to do something like that in South America.
While some of the countries you didn't go into are fairly obvious, it is interesting as to some you went through vs. those you avoided. Have you written up your experiences anywhere? I know Expedition Portal would be interested in them. |
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Secondly, the security situation is constantly changing in many African countries (although it often isn't as bad as the media makes it out to be), so you have to plan accordingly. For example; we dropped going into Ivory Coast because the civil war broke out a week before we planned to cross the border from Mali. While on the other hand we dropped Nigeria because we wanted to spend more time in Niger before continuing on into Chad. Thirdly, the rainy season plays a part too. So we had to make it across northern Africa and down to Kenya before the rainy season would make it impossible to cross from Sudan into Ethiopia and onwards. Just by chance, we were the last vehicle to cross into Sudan from Chad before the Sudanese closed the border due to the situation in Darfur, which started while we were there. If we'd been a day late, we would have had to turn around and go south thru Cameroon, Gabon, Rep. of Congo, DRC and Angola. Which would not have been a problem at that time. In fact, when we finally reached Cape Town, I felt that I wasn't quite finished with the trip, and discussed with my wife driving up via Angola, DRC ( with the Land Rover on a barge to Kisangani), and then onwards thru CAR, Cameroon, Nogeria, Niger and Algeria for 3-4 months alone, while she went back home for work. In the end I decided that I didn't want to be away from her for that long at that time (call me pussy whipped, but you get kind of attached to each other after living in a 2,4m X 1,4m tent for a year ), so we shipped the car home in a container. As for the Expedition Portal and similar sites, we did have a website with a journal that was updated when we got a chance in the occational cities that had an internet café back then. Roughly once a month or so. After keeping it up for almost a decade, we eventually took it down. If you have similar plans, all I can say is do it. It will change your life, and be something that will effect you for as long as you live. Needless to say, it helps having a bit of experience off the beaten track in third world countries from before, and experience in dealing with stressful and/or hostile situations. The way I look at it, you can survive by dumb luck, or you can be smart and create your own good luck by making the right decissions when in various situations. |
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