This is the tale of our Overland Adventure (with some side-trips and a couple of ferries) from Sydney, Australia, to Eeklo, Belgium, in Sterlin our Landrover Discovery.
How did our adventure start? Well….
Once Upon A Time, in a campground in the Moroccan desert…
We had just set up our little 1.5 man tent (we were backpacking after all so anything to reduce the weight of our packs) and had started cooking our evening meal on our single bluey stove, when 2 burgundy Land Rover Discovery’s rocked up. They parked, deployed their roof top tents, satellite phones (which came in small suitcases in those days), and what have you; and we looked at each other and vowed: ‘one day that will be us!’ Those were the times when the Discovery’s dominated the Camel Trophy.
In 2013, about 20 years on, our time had come.
In 2002 we bought a Land Rover Discovery Series II and registered it under its name ‘STERLIN’, proudly showing on a personalized licence plate. During 2012-13 we fitted the car out to become our expedition vehicle; naturally that included installing a roof top tent. More details and information can be found in the ‘Preparations‘ section and the ‘Logistics‘ section
You are on the welcome page, but all the day-to-day details of our trip can be found in the Travel Blog. We traveled from April 30, 2013 (Caroline), and May 26, 2013 (Stephen) and we updated the blog every couple of days or so with the latest going-ons (depending on access to the internet). So! Welcome to our Travel Blog!
We hoped this next adventure would take us to Europe, Australia, South-East Asia, Russia, Mongolia,… and all the way to Caroline’s mum’s doorstep in Belgium! We were not disappointed.
We broke up our journey in 6 sections, mainly to keep the route overview and photo library organized: Leg 1: Europe, Leg 2: Australia, Leg 3: South East Asia, ‘Leg 4: East and Central Asia’,‘Leg 5: Europe (Take 2)’ and ‘Leg 6: South China Sea’.
We arrived back home in San Francisco on November 30, 2014.
A little bit more about us.
You can read about our previous travels here.
Caroline (BEL/USA) and Stephen (NZ/USA).
