How about a flat bottom boat to take you to Europe? We met them in Cartwright Labrador too.
I began to think if we stayed in Cartwright Labrador for a month we might have met 20 more world explorers- go figure.  We also might have been carried away by the bugs- or at least we would [...]

We meet a fellow adventurer in Cartwright Labrador.
Most often the best highlights of any trip are the people that you meet along the way. Our recent trip to Labrador and Newfoundland was no exception. It also seems that the farther out and stranger the place the more people that you run into with incredible stories. [...]

Earlier this year, a good friend of Drive the Globe took a 6-month journey around Africa.  Anthony – one of the more “intrepid” travelers I know – is a Brit in his late 20s and has traveled to more than 100 countries around the world and I can attest to the fact that he is [...]

New Show on Sunday evening 10PM Eastern. Sounds interesting…
Four modern-day explorers head into Tanzania’s deep interior, to travel 970 miles through stunning and unforgiving African terrain. Using only a compass and basic maps, they will re-experience the spirit of a remarkable adventure in world history–American journalist Henry Morton Stanley’s perilous 19th-century journey to find Dr. [...]

It may not qualify for the Overland Travel site of the week, but it is a cool read anyway. I have been a subscriber to Pilot Getaways Magazine for a number of years and figured some of you might share my appreciation for travel by small plane.  Although some of the features certainly focus on cool places [...]

A Toronto man has become the first to drive a solar-powered car up Canada’s most northerly highway beyond the Arctic Circle, arriving just outside Inuvik, N.W.T., on Wednesday. Marcelo da Luz’s solar vehicle, which looks like a low-slung flying saucer on wheels, has travelled since June 12 from Buffalo, N.Y., driving across Western Canada and [...]