Now we have the roof off and the sides I moved on to stripping out all the camper electrics to allow the rear tub to be removed, repaired and put on the new chassis, several days of gentle removal and labelling of each wire was meticulous work, but now the …

Since returning from Africa I have been lucky to find a few places that can help with the big rebuild of Nelson.  The best set up was at GEMM 4*4 near Falkirk who know the truck well as they put a new chassis on it when I first got it.  …

I shall miss Africa, it has got under my skin and into my blood, no more so than in the last week. A paradox of travelling is that when all goes smoothly you can be insulated to some extent from the people and the reality of life here, travelling for …

When the first detachment of the Tsavo West National Park team arrived at my crash site, the leader looked at me and the car and said “you walked out of that?, God really loves you man!” a sense of gratitude has been my main emotion in the two days since …

I used to joke with Tony Borrill, Mark Wilkins and Duncan that rule 1 was “don’t roll the truck” as Nelson is so strong in every direction except upwards as the lifting roof prevents the installation of a roll cadge. So today, 40km from the end of the park road …

I am working my way through Kenya quite gently, keeping the kms low as I am driving on my own and taking advantage of the generous hospitality of Lee’s cousin in Nairobi, I camp in the shadow of Mt Kenya and in the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro while visiting some …

Now I am in Kenya, country number 81 for Nelson and I, this is the last country of this trip as Nelson will ship from Mombasa and go into his container on the 18th June, so I have about 10 days left, four of which will be consumed on administration …

I crossed over to Kenya today after spending the night on the bank of the Nile as it leaves Lake Victoria. I wrote in my journal that it was a pretty smooth border crossing, and it was, by my new recalibrated sense. To put some perspective on it, and to …

I continue to tootle through the beautiful west of Rwanda in the mountains along the short of lake Kivu. The roads are lovely and smooth, in fact people seem to sweep them with brooms each day, no kidding, this are main roads and gangs of ladies (usually) are walking along …