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

Nostalgia (Budapest, Hungary)

Journal entry for Wednesday 2nd Oct, 2024 (day 59, miles 0)

Today was a bit of a nostalgic day as Nina set off before 9:00 this morning to visit Vajdahunyad Castle and Heroes Square. These were places we visited and remarked on when we previously visited Budapest. Along the way she found a revamped City Park and the Ethnography Museum.

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Buda Castle (Budapest, Hungary)

Journal entry for Tuesday 1st Oct, 2024 (day 58, miles 0)

We arrived at Budapests Kerepesi station a bit past at 9:00 and were delighted to discover that our hotel was literally a 5 minute walk across the road. The plan was to have breakfast at the hotel, leave our luggage there and start the days tour activities. However by the time breakfast was over Nina's head was spinning and we were unable to join the group but rather pleaded with the hotel staff for a room so she could sleep until her "turn" had passed.

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Our last overnight train (Bucharest, Romania)

Journal entry for Monday 30th Sep, 2024 (day 57, miles 0)

Today is a bit of a milestone as this evening we catch the last overnight train of this marathon journey. However, that is not until 18:00 this evening and we have a late checkout with our hotel room until 17:00. So today we have the time to do a bit of exploring.

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Romania, here we come (Budapest, Romania)

Journal entry for Sunday 29th Sep, 2024 (day 56, miles 0)

Nina took a short walk around the town this morning for a few more photos and then we were off to the station to catch a train to Bucharest, At the station we learned that the train was 60+minutes late and that set the scene for the day as the weather also deteriorated into heavy rain and by the time we got to Bucharest everything was saturated. The last couple of photos below are of the Danube River from the train. The Danube forms the border between Bulgaria abnd Romania.

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Over night to Bulgaria (Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria)

Journal entry for Saturday 28th Sep, 2024 (day 55, miles 0)

Today, Sept 27th, we had almost an entire day in Istanbul before catching another night train to the Bulgarian town of Veliko Tarnovo. So Nina and I continued our nostalgia tour of this fabulous but chaotic city by walking to Taksim Square (and return). This was just an exercise of remebering the last time we were here and collecting some more interesting images along the way.

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