About This Site

This website records the overlanding and other travels of Nina and Rob Blackwell and covers a period from March 2009 to the present. The images above are just a taste of the photographic record of our travels. Click here to see all of our travel photos.

Most of the travel recorded here has been vehicle based, and undertaken as overlanding adventures. Over the years we have had a number of vehicles and we have grouped our travels into Adventures based on the vehicle used.

Below you will find a summary of each of the different adventures and links to detailed pages about those adventures.

Clicking here will take you to a consolidated map of all out adventures. Each marker on the map represents a 'camping' spot where we spent at least one night, and the different adventures are represented by different colors.

Finally we hope and plan that the adventures are not yet over.

Hence when we are exgaged in yet another adventure the section below entitled The Latest News will have summaries of the latest posts from which readers can link to the current adventure and all posts related to that adventure.

Our Adventures

The Americas

This is the earliest adventure recorded on this website and started in March of 2009. At the time we were novices at this overlanding thing and really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. As it turned out .... read more

Around the World

Our longest overlanding adventure occupying approximately 5 years and taking us around the world from the far East of Canada, across North America, the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Russia, then through the Asian continent to explore Europe and then finally .... read more

Australia

Our 2019 Australian adventure was sufficently successful that we are now living back in Australia, planning a new travel vehicle and some more Australian based exploration. The new vehicle is currently undergoing some modification and preparations and sometime in 2nd quarter of 2023 we will be able to do our first trials.

Stay tuned .. once it is in our hands we will give you a tour and run down.

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Antarctica

We will end 2019 with a cruise to the Antarctic aboard the Greg Mortimer. This is a new ship, having just completed its maiden voyage and is named after a famous (in Australia at least) mountaineer and antarctic traveler. ..... click to see more.

Asia 2020 and 2023

At long last we are about to restart the Asia trip that was aborted by COVID19 in 2020.

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Travels with our Earthroamer

After completing our The Americas adventure we mistakenly believed that we would not undertake any more vehicle based travel outside North America and with that mind set, in 2011 just after OverlandExpo, we purchased a used 2008 Earthroamer. However as plans .... read more

Motorcycle Adventures

In 2015 on our annual return to the US, I Robert, decided to get myself a motorcycle license (my first ever experiences with motos) and a year later (again on our annual return to the US) I bought my first motorcycle a 2011 BMW1200 GS. That same year that motorcycle presented me with a broken leg and thats why we did not return to Europe that year. It was probably inevitable .... click this link to read more.

Upcoming - A Great Train Journey

In the second half of 2024 we are undertaking A Great Train Journey, from Singapore to London by train. Not one train but a series of interlinked train routes. That will take us through Malaysia, Laos, China, Tibet, Kazakstan, Georgia, Azerbajan, Turkey, Austria, and France. ..... click to see more.

The Latest News

The last day of the Great Train Odyssey (London, United Kingdom)

Journal entry for Monday 7th Oct, 2024 (day 64, miles 0)

Today got off to an interesting start as the breakfast room of our hotel was on floor -1 which as you can see from the first couple of photos below was probably the cellar of the building in previous times.

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A brief visit to Paris (Paris, France)

Journal entry for Sunday 6th Oct, 2024 (day 63, miles 0)

As you can see from the first set of photos Nina was out exploring Frankfurt again early this morning and got these photos before our train departed for Paris. The train ride was fast, up to 200km/h, and relatively comfortable. But one does not get much of a view of the scenery at that speed.

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Our first day on EU trains (Frankfurt, Germany)

Journal entry for Saturday 5th Oct, 2024 (day 62, miles 0)

Before I get to todays train ride, I should note that the only photos for todays entry are from Nina's early morning walk in Vienna. She found Belvedere Palace near the river, which had a menagerie (like a Zoo) established in 1720 second only to the menagerie of Louis XIV.

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Schönbrunn Palace (Vienna, Austria)

Journal entry for Friday 4th Oct, 2024 (day 61, miles 0)

Today was all about Schönbrunn Palace, a tour of this famous building and its grounds was included as part of the trip so first thing this morning we were all on the metro heading to the palace which is south west of the city center. The day was wet, the crowd was large and hence the tour was crowded. But still it was interesting to see how the wealthy of a bygone era lived.

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A New City (Vienna, Austria)

Journal entry for Thursday 3rd Oct, 2024 (day 60, miles 0)

Today was a long day on the train travelling from Budapest to Vienna. The high point of the day however was that we ended up in Vienna a city we have not visited before.

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