GoNOMAD.Com: Great Information Source To Plan Your Next Trip! 
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GoNOMAD .com is not a travel agency - we don’t sell tours, book flights, or reserve hotel rooms. Instead, we publish great travel writing and own a fantastically cozy community cafe that brings the best people in the area together over coffee, good [...]

Unlikely Destinations: The Story Of Lonely Planet By Tony and Maureen Wheeler.
Lonely Planet is an organization that has been a part of my travels since the beginning. My first publication was Africa On A Shoe String, which at the time we considered to be the Bible of all African guides. Even though the book was [...]

Michael Ladden and Jim Leach enjoy a cold Guinness Float at the Fall River Pub & Grill in Maberly Ontario. A special thanks to Dave Pell of the Ottawa Valley Land Rover Club for showing us how it is done the night before, and proving that even after the kitchen closes there is still something [...]

We have returned from a fun filled weekend at Silver Lake in Ontario Canada at the Ottawa Valley Land Rover Club’s 26th annual Birthday Party event.  As is the case each year, we got to spend time doing some trail rides, hanging out with old friends and getting in some general relaxation.  We visited our [...]

DRIVE THE GLOBE | Overland Adventures will be in Silver Lake Ontario this weekend, June 19-21 at the Ottawa Valley Land Rover annual Birthday Party off road event. If you are planning on attending, stop by and say Hi. We will be driving our expedition Land Rover Defender 110. For those staying at home you [...]

Drive the Globe is now equipped with this handy device called Spot.  It is cheap, easy to carry and definitely a gear item that brings piece of mind to those of us that often travel out of cell range or into areas far away from civilization. Their brief overview is as follows.
Nature, solitude, and fresh [...]

A quick update to reflect the new color of our expedition vehicle. We are not quite done yet, still needs another couple of coats and some sanding but it sure looks orange already!
 
 
 
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The fabrication for the Expedition rear body of our project Mercedes Unimog is complete. The photos below show the aluminum skinned steel framed unit complete with 80 gallon stainless steel water tank enclosed. We wasted no time in stripping the vehicle down from bumper to bumper to prepare for painting. The newly fabricated roll cage [...]

2009 ARB Fridge Freezer compared to ARB circa 2000 model.
Let me start by saying my old ARB fridge has been great, really excellent in fact. I have personally used it on numerous short trips, camping weekends and major overland journeys. This fridge saw temperatures in my truck reach 125 degrees in the middle of the [...]

Jim and Ann Rolston of Connecticut have a beauty of an overland vehicle. This 1968 Land Rover Series Ambulance sees its fair share of action and although it is over forty years old it is still a reliable work horse. This past winter they traveled to Maine for the Winter Romp Event ( http://www.winterromp.org ).
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