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Over the past weekend Drive The Globe | Overland Adventures hit our first milestone on YouTube as our video entitled Desert Crossing passed the 1000 view mark. In addition, since the launch of our YouTube page in June we have nearly 4000 total video views and almost 800 unique visitors to our YouTube page. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support. We look forward to posting some new content very shortly.

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Sahara Nomads embraces the love of travel in Northern Africa.

A quick simple website with some great photos and nicely equipped Land Rovers. Our overland travel website of the week.

Visit saharanomads.com to see for yourself.

Sun, planes, cars- seems like a great excuse to hang out on a Sunday and enjoy probably one of the last summer like days of 2009.  Hundreds of planes and cars turned out for the annual event. This year we attended with the Mog, the 1965 series IIA and Pat Macomber’s Defender 90.

First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover- by Tim Slessor.

Another fantastic novel for all of you interested in the origins of overland vehicle travel.

They had no money. They had no cars. They had a whole lot of tenacity. These six men convinced a publisher, film maker and enough sponsors to make this historic trip a reality. In late 1955, they set off from England. Six months, six days and 18,000 miles later, two very weary Land Rovers rolled into Singapore to flash-bulbs and champagne. Now, fifty years on, their bestselling book, First Overland, is republished with an introduction by Sir David Attenborough.

Available at Amazon.Com

The ugly stick is a traditional Newfoundland musical instrument fashioned out of household and tool shed items, typically a mop handle with bottle caps, tin cans, small bells and other noise makers. The instrument is played with a drum stick and has a distinctive sound.

The instrument’s main body is a mop or broom handle cut to approximately four feet. An old rubber boot was attached to the bottom and a cymbal attached at the very top. At strategic intervals along the length of the shaft, nails affixed with bottle caps, felt tins and other noise makers would be nailed into the shaft. The instrument would then be decorated with items of colour and fluff to the artist’s taste.

On our travels through Rocky Harbour we got a chance to catch the local Newfoundland band Anchors Aweigh  play one night and demonstrate the fine art of uglistickness. They suggested dressing up your instrument in the likeness of someone who annoys you. Either way, on a recent getaway to Martha’s Vineyard we constructed our own stick. Now if we could only find someone that has rhythm enough to play it well!

Anchors Aweigh with ugly stick on left of photo.

 Visit our video of a couple of ugly sticks in action on the Drive The Globe YouTube site.

More photos from our summer trip 2009.

Thanks to Dennis and Maura White for posting more photos from Labrador, Newfoundland, PEI and Nova Scotia.

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Road Trip 2009

Three Cups Of Tea - Greg Mortenson

Three Cups Of Tea. Does it sound like your cup of tea? I know it’s a cheap pun, but I couldn’t resist. The title of this one may mislead some, but don’t judge this book by its cover alone. I’ll leave the clichés and puns there. I highly recommend the book. The wonderful adventure that is Greg Mortenson’s life will stay with you long after you close the final page.

Synopsis from Barnes and Noble:
One day in 1993, high up in the world’s most inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world’s deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished village in Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school. Although he was a homeless “climbing bum” living out of his aging Buick in Berkeley, California, Mortenson sold what few possessions he had to launch one of the most remarkable humanitarian campaigns of our time.” “Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson’s decade-long odyssey to build schools, especially for girls, throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - by providing both girls and boys with a balanced, nonextremist education. Mortenson must survive a kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family.” Today, as the director of the Central Asia Institute, Mortenson has built fifty-five schools serving Pakistan and Afghanistan’s poorest communities. And as this real-life Indiana Jones from Montana crisscrosses the Himalaya and the Hindu Kush fighting to keep these schools functioning, he provides not only hope to tens of thousands of children, but living proof that one passionately dedicated person truly can change the world.

Specially adapted and updated, see also the Three cups of Tea- Young Reader’s Edition that includes new maps, illustrations and an afterword by Greg’s twelve-year-old daughter Amira.

Have you ever visited a distant land and wished you could do something to improve the lives of the people you encountered? Do you believe that one person can make a difference in the world? Greg Mortenson will give you reason to view the world in a whole new light. He gives travel, adventure and the will of one man, new meaning. You will not be disappointed. Enjoy the adventure which continues as of this review. Be certain to check out Greg’s sites for more information as well. Happy Trails! Enjoy!

 www.gregmortenson.com and gregmortenson.blogspot.com

Book available at Barnes & Noble

Sometimes it seems like a trip never ends. After our “breakdown” in Labrador and the subsequent decision to leave the spare tire behind because of weight considerations we had to figure out a way to get a 275 pound large tire back home. As it turned out the easiest way was to have it shipped to Montreal and then pick it up- might as well make it a weekend getaway to Montreal in the process.  Things never go quite as planned though and I expected it to be waiting for me at the Hilton when I arrived. No such luck though. So at 11:30pm on a Friday night we found ourselves on the outskirts of Montreal at a freight distribution center trying to make the midnight deadline (they close for the weekend) to pick up our much sought after spare tire.

Success! With only minutes to spare after a long drive from Connecticut the tire was loaded into our Jeep Rubicon by removing the rear roof and we were on our way for a weekend in Montreal.