Apr 27 2009
Fuel Tank Evolves From Cardboard To Aluminum
Work continues on our fuel tank project for the Mercedes Unimog. We have fabricated an aluminum tank to replace the stock small steel tank that is standard on the Mog. Several weeks ago we posted photos of the tank in cardboard form. Since then we have tack welded and test [...]
Apr 27 2009
My FJ Cruiser.Org
A newer blog site to check out, especially if you own a Toyota FJ Cruiser. Details everything from vehicle modifications to expedition gear and travel tales. I especially like the post detailing the installation of a desk top computer into the truck. A good read.
http://www.myfjcruiser.org/
Apr 27 2009
Backroads of Alaska and the Yukon By Joan Donaldson-Yarmey
I picked this book up last year while traveling in the Arctic Circle. For those of you ambitous enough to plan a trip to the great North either in the summer or winter this is a helpful guide. Details many cool out of the way places. I [...]
Apr 21 2009
Panasonic Toughbook CF 18- Recommended Expedition Gear
I spent two months in Africa in 2001. The vast majority of the time traveling I spent fighting with a broken lap top screen- a victim of rough roads and unforgiving conditions. Even though the machine was well protected within a Zero Halliburton aluminum case it still managed to get damaged [...]
Apr 13 2009
Colin Javens Spinal Injury Trust
Some 40,000 paraplegics and quadriplegics in the UK - and the numbers swell by 3 every day - are confined to a wheelchair for life - and many, understandably, succumb to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.
Colin Javens, paralysed from shoulders down in an accident in 2000, used a tiny movement in [...]
Apr 09 2009
The Masked Rider By Neil Peart
“Cycling is a good way to travel anywhere, but especially in Africa. You are independent and mobile, and yet travel at people speed–fast enough to travel on to another town in the cooler morning hours, but slow enough to meet people: the old farmer at the roadside who raises his [...]
Apr 05 2009
Expedition Truck Gets Fast Axles
The build on our expedition truck is starting to get fast and furious. Several projects are going on at the same time, not the least of which is the upgrade to fast axles. Well, fast might be an exaggeration. Anyway, our goal is to increase the top speed of the truck [...]
Apr 05 2009
Just wanted to let our faithful web viewers know that we have finally, and I mean finally (it has probably only been about 5 years) updated our In The Press page. Now that doesn’t mean that we have added ever single story that has ever been published about Drive The Globe, but… we have added [...]
