“How to set up your future vehicle-home?” So now that you have your vehicle, let’s set it up!!! Just to be clear, there are no right or wrong vehicle setups, equipment, modifications or upgrades. This falls under the personal preference…
“How to Pick the Right Ride?” You can ask any overlanders out there which is the perfect overland vehicle and most likely will point his out. You wonder why? Because since we are talking about traveling in a vehicle, everything…
“Sponsoring yourself or being sponsored?” As you most probably already know, here in OVERLANDDIARIES we rely exclusively on our own funds as an income to fuel our overland expeditions. No matter how much money we have available, this will be…
“How to stay safe on the road?” Lets talk about safety now and the fine print of it. Wikipedia defines the term Overlanding as: "A self-reliant overland travel to remote destinations where the journey is the principal goal. Typically, it…
Hello fellow overlanders!!!!!! We decided to add this section on our tips & info called Moments & Momentum in order to add special short stories of our trips that add knowledge to overlanding experience. How do we find the places…
Introduction The list bellow was designed for unsupported global travel in developing countries.Developed countries have most of the resources available, so some of the items on this list are not required. The specific pack list is based on full time…
The pre departure stage of every overland trip is probably one of the most stressful ones. As we faced this back in 2014-15 when we were getting ready for "the epic journey" we came up with a group of check…
Getting vehicles across high seas has always been a headache for overlanders. In our case, this was the first issue we had to solve since crossing the Atlantic is the only way to get to South America from Europe.…
Overlanding is defined as a self-relying journey where the primary goal is the journey and not the destination itself. But what does that exactly mean? We overlanders are a different breed of explorers. Seekers of wild places, peoples and…
Sorry for the late posting,at the moment we are back on the road and with Voukefalas in our side. I am not sure if the post below was needed but being in the beautiful Agonda Beach in South Goa without our…
I feel obligated to write about our Indian visa adventure as a separate post in order to warn all fellow overlanders heading to the so called by the tourist brochures “Incredible India”, with the not so incredible system of welcoming…
The real countdown is almost over……………….We are both very exited and after the numbness of the last couple of weeks the stress started building up again.Rochelle still can not believe that after a couple of days she will be leaving…
The countdown is on and we only have 15 days left before we get back on the road.Days of calm back here in Mykonos specially after we shorted out Rochelle Visa Issues .I have decided to dedicate this post to…
Life is a always trying to tell you more ... The awareness is to see listen and feel that's the challenge.Media ,family, friends love the universe nature. It speaks to us every second we are alive. But are we listening…
An issue popped up and hit the overlanddiaries team yesterday and Rochelle (Auzzie Passport Holder) specially so I wanted to share with all you people out there.“How can you stay Legally in Europe for more than 90 days?”. It’s a…
Since our trip would be long and in all shorts of areas and terrains our navigation was critical to be as accrued as possible. Now days a GPS is almost essential for any overland trip .In our case we would…
While back in Mykons we are still working on preparations of the trip. Many friends insisted that ones away from the capital, there are very few thing we will be able to achieve regarding the trip and that we should…
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I have always had in mind that a tool kit is useful to carry.Most important though in our case is to carry tools that you actually know how to use them. In my case my kit is minimal and is…
1/6/2014 Still on the preparation mode we have put together a basic first aid kit.From my experience this would grow with the addition of local medicine that will be more effective in specific cases.So we stay minimal but not unprepared…
