We spent last 4 days on the expedition cruise ship Via Australis first sailing south to Cape Horn, the southernmost point in the world, and then navigating north through the…
Bariloche
From Buenos Aires we flew south to San Carlos de Bariloche. Besides the beautiful, scenic nature we found that there was a surprising abundance of microbreweries in the area. We managed to…
The anatomy of a 24-hour travel day
We just wanted to share the longest travel day of our trip so far. It certainly isn’t the worst ever (we’ve heard horror stories of 40+ hour travel days), but a little bit…
New Zealand’s South Island
We arrived in smallish but beautiful Queenstown on November 16th where our first encounter with Kiwi culture was taking the bus from the airport. Already on the bus there were lots of friendly greetings “how’s…
Chiang Mai and Bangkok (part 2)
After a number of travel days (the Mekong boat trip and a bus from Chiang Khong) it was great to settle down in Chiang Mai. Here we enjoyed some delicious Thai food, checked out the famous night…
2 day cruise on the mighty Mekong river
We spent a relaxing 2 days cruising up the Mekong river in late October. While we mostly just watched the jungle and mountains drift by in the mist, we also stopped at…
Tragic history, 4 million scooters and an old trading port
We arrived at Phnom Penh from Siem Reap in relative style (air-conditioned coach complete with WiFi) and would definitely recommend the Giant Ibis bus service over minibus any day. Here we visited the Tuol Slang…
The Type 3 turns 88,888
On the drive from Essen to Dortmund, the VW hit a major milestone of the trip. After 3 months of traveling, nearly 7,500 kilometers, 1 oil change (Alex did it in a…
The car train from Verona to Düsseldorf
On July 25 we boarded the car train for the overnight trip to Düsseldorf. Having driven over 7,000 kilometers since our departure from Copenhagen, it was nice (for both us and the car) to…
Driving across northern Italy (June 26-July 6)
We spent around ten days traveling through northern Italy on our way to Croatia. After arriving in Savona on the overnight ferry from Barcelona, we spent our first night camping just outside Genoa.…
4 countries in 4 days (June 13-16)
So we just realized that we’ve been in 4 different countries over the last 4 days (not that this was the goal, but pretty impressive nonetheless). Leaving Lagos, Portugal (one),…
The first 2 casualties of the trip
So about a week into the trip, Alex managed to open a gas station door into his face (not really sure how that’s possible, but clearly an achievement in clumsiness).…
1969 VW Type 3 1600TL Fastback
Mike, Amelia, Kevin and Sara were all visiting us in Copenhagen around the time we bought the car almost 5 years ago. It’s been great fun ever since – a…