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I'd contact Martin at International Vehicle Shipping Service. He is very experienced with working with overlanders. We've worked with him shipping our vehicle twice USA to Britain and from Kenya to Oman.

Thanks for the nice compliments. You can do it the hardest part is actually committing yourself to go

Armenia - Part 1 Parked at the top of Selim Pass Armenia was a surprise to us. We knew shockingly little about this small embattled nation, but from the moment we entered from Georgia through the deep, lush Debed river canyon, we started to fall in love. The country has vast landscapes of...

Turkey - Part 2 In addition to being excited about visiting iconic Istanbul, we were thrilled that Dawn’s cousin Helen, one of our favorite travel partners, was joining us for the week. She had a past history of doing business in Istanbul so was cued up for both a trip down memory lane and...

Western Turkey - Part 1 We were so excited to visit Turkey for the first time and Istanbul was a city we had always wanted to explore. But our plans did not pan out as we hoped. Information was somewhat difficult to come by and we got over confident about our ability to navigate borders and...

Greece - part 3 Our next island visit was Mykonos. For us the name evoked celebrity, glamor, and luxury. Luckily it was also a place we could take our truck by ferry. But we quickly found out it was not really a place for self-camping. Highly developed, there was very little open space with...

Greece - part 2 The truck!! (We still don’t have a catchy name for it like most overlanders do) Fully rested after our ten days of hotels and restaurants we set off on what felt like, to us, our “real” exploration of Greece - overlander style. Our first stop was the Peloponnese Peninsula...

Greece - Part 1 Temple to the Goddess Athena (one of many) next to Delphi Greece was a fantastic place to land and re-group after a year and a half in Africa and the Middle East. We felt a huge sense of comfort in the European familiarity and how easy everything was for us. For the first time...

Jordan - part 2 There are many ways to tackle Petra, in retrospect, maybe we should have taken a taxi to the entrance by the Monastery and walked one way back through the whole valley to the main entrance. Or we could have purchased the two day pass and split up sections. But in the end we were...

Jordan - Part 1 Jordan quickly became one of our top travel destinations. Exploring beautiful deserts, wadis, and majestic ruins of ancient civilizations made for a delightful blend of experiences. For us, being from the western United States, entering Jordan also brought a welcome sense of...

Saudi Arabia - part 2 More of the wooden screened boxes And then we were on our way again - more beach and desert camping! We learned to keep an eye out for these guys - mostly they hid under rocks Next we visited Al Ula, an ancient oasis city in the desert and the surrounding desert with...

I would not go out of my way to go back there again. However, it was interesting to see. We like to talk about our top 10% countries which include Iceland, Norway, Albania, Romania, Morocco, Benin, Tanzania and Oman but haven’t put together a list of our bottom 10%, but Saudi Arabia would...

Saudi Arabia - part 1 Wild camping at “Judah’s Thumb” Saudi Arabia is enormous, with vast rocky and desert flat stretches. There were areas of exquisite beauty, and also a lot of empty space to cover. It was not our favorite Arabian Peninsula country. The culture felt less welcoming to us...

Bahrain Bahrain is slightly less prosperous than Qatar and also more socially relaxed. It has half the population of Qatar with 50% of its residents living in the capital of Manama. Although not as shiny and new as Doha, Manama had a charm of its own. The country is really a collection of...

We also thought Africa was going to be cheaper. But what was interesting is West Africa and East/Southern Africa were roughly the same cost. West Africa had much higher visa costs whle South/E. Africa had much higher national park/camping fees. Visiting almost any African national park is...

Qatar Al Zubara fort, Qatar Qatar and Bahrain are similar in that they are both two small Arabian Gulf countries with economies based on oil and gas. For both of them, their main connection to the rest of Arabia is through Saudi Arabia. Qatar is a small peninsula land locked by Saudi Arabia...

Trip Costs Sure thing! So far we are 3 1/2 years into our five year driving around the world adventure where we have put on 125,000 miles so far. We spent our first year and a half on the road traveling the US and Baja, Mexico (our eventual goal is to visit every US national park, right now...

Thank you for the super kind words. At times I wonder how large of an audience we're reaching out to. Some of what we do is just to remind ourselves where we have been, haha.

UAE - part 2 Then we were back to city life and learning about UAE history and culture. Abu Dhabi was a pleasant surprise (those of you who have read other blogs know we are usually grumpy city people). After a year of navigating cities in Africa, we were still amazed with the cities on the...

United Arab Emirates - part 1 Dhafeer Fort - Liwa Oasis The United Arab Emirates continued our fascination with the Arabian Peninsula. Although it did not quite have the extraordinarily beautiful wild camping spots common in Oman, the country offered the intrigue of huge culturally...