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Follow Us to Mongolia with Track24 Solo

After gathering our car and getting our paperwork in order for the Mongol Rally, we had one final stop at the Track24 Solo office in the trendy Soho district of London.

July 25, 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More

Mongol Rally Prep Pandemonium

Let me Tell you about our Pandemonium During Preparations for the Mongol Rally. It’ the week before any adventure that is the freakiest and when everything goes wrong.

July 7, 2011 / 46 Comments / Read More

Mongol Rally – A Year in the Making

So, have you heard we’re doing this little adventure in a couple of weeks called the Mongol Rally? If you haven’t, It’s a 16,000 km unsupported car rally from London, England to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

June 28, 2011 / 14 Comments / Read More

The Mongol Rally, Fun with Planning

This past week someone wrote a comment stating that they would love to hear more about the Mongol Rally preparations. I’m not one to ignore our readers, so here you go.

May 31, 2011 / 22 Comments / Read More

Take a sabbatical and Travel the World

The idea of taking a sabbatical is one that has spread into workplaces all over the world, to the point at which many people now consider a career break in order to travel.

May 28, 2011 / 3 Comments / Read More

Meet, Plan, Go! Career Break Basic Training

Founded by Sherry Ott and Michaela Potter of Briefcase to Backpack, they organized and developed this unprecidented event taking place in 13 cities around Canada and the United States on the same night. They’re Now Offering An Amazing Online Course. Since that time, they have developed a program called Meet Plan Go! Career Break Basic Training with professional career coach Tara Russel of Three Month Visa.

January 23, 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More

Epic Plans for an Epic Trip

199 Days. That is how long we have until we take on our next great adventure. The Mongol Rally will be in full swing before we know it, and we haven’t even scratched the surface as to what needs to be done. What happens when four very busy travel bloggers decide to get together to take on a treacherous drive 1/3 of the way around the world?

January 4, 2011 / 14 Comments / Read More

Times Running Out and The Pressures On

Throughout the summer we have been writing about our blog changes and goals for our new life as travel bloggers. It has been one of the busiest summers of our lives which is hard to believe because if you were to look at things from the outside, it would like seem we are just playing around on our computers.

October 26, 2010 / 9 Comments / Read More

Canada AM

We were up bright and early this morning for our interview at Canada AM. What a short time on camera, but it was a great experience and we look forward to more appearances and interviews as we go through Africa. Can you believe that we leave the day after tomorrow. I have been talking about [...]

December 31, 2007 / 3 Comments / Read More

How do you spell relief? P-A-SS-P-O-R-T

We have our passports back in our hands, but I have to tell you about the crazy week that we have had to get them… Monday….. It all started on Monday when we phoned the Ethiopian Embassy to make sure that our passports had been sent. They told us the Friday before that they were [...]

December 22, 2007 / No Comment / Read More

Welcome to our STRESS…

The past two weeks have been the busiest and most stressful point of the entire year. As you may have read on our last post, we made a couple of mistakes with our Sudan visas, but it all worked out and we could laugh about it. Well, we managed to make another mistake to our [...]

December 17, 2007 / No Comment / Read More

Crunch Time!

There comes a time in the preliminary stages of every journey, where all of the prepping, training, and planning finally come together. I had been waiting for this moment for months, and it just happened this week. For the first time since deciding to take part in the Tour d’Afrique, it has actually hit home [...]

November 19, 2007 / 3 Comments / Read More