Author Archives: Steven Shoppman

Call for Expedition Members

As many of you already know, we have had the crew fluctuating lately.  Up and down from 3-6 people we are now down to just Steve Bouey and I.  So I thought I would put out this little blog to formally announce that we are looking for crew members.  More than that though, we are […]

Blogs, Blogs, Where are the Blogs?

Over the last week we have had many wonderful things happen.  We met with the nice people at USAID, which then lead us to the nice people at Wild Aid.  Much of our time is spent here in Bangkok taking care of business as we prepare for the less organized countries that we will be […]

Stats from the road.

Here are some of the stats since the beginning of the expedition. 7 countries 7400 miles driven 2 speeding tickets 122 wrong turns weight/pounds lost: Steve 25 / Bouey 5 1 volcano 2 snakes eaten 14 stamps on the passport, 18 for Steve and Caki when Steve forgot to get the Carnet stamped at the […]

The music of the week

One of the things that you need to carry you along for the long days on the road is good tunes.  I am going to recommend music that I am listening to in the hopes that if you like it, you go to Amazon and buy it so that we can help to fund our […]

The Wild Ride

Upon crossing the Thai border we had to teach the people at customs to fill out our documents.  Literally we were giving them orders as to how and where to put the dates and sign the papers.  This is not because they are incompetent, it is just because they have never seen anyone like us […]

Endau Photos

We have photos from Endau Rompin National Park. Click here.

So you want to know a little about the trucks.

We have our trucks page finished, or rather started.  Soon we will have regular updates on this page, along with statistics about the trucks performance.  So far we could not be happier with their performance.  So check out the page, we have a photo gallery with a bunch of photos as well. Click here to […]

Update May 30th, 2007 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We are now starting a routine of regular video updates.  So here is our first one…go easy it was our first time doing this and we only did one take. 🙂 You can watch it here on our site with the link below or on Stage6 in higher quality.  http://stage6.divx.com/The-World-By-Road—Around-the-World-by-Two-Trucks

New Photos – Malaysia, Tioman Island, and more of Indonesia

We have new photos up. The links to the galleries are below.Australian Aid School Building Project – AUS AID has committed to help build 2,000 schools in Indonesia over the course of the next 2 years.Indonesia this Morning on Metro TV – Our first international TV appearance. Tioman Island, Salang, Malaysia – This island was […]

New Photos

We have updated the photo gallery…. go there now!!! Cobras for dinner, volcanoes at sunrise,  and just plain tropponess. Click here