Category Archives: Borders, Visas and Paperwork

Ticket to Ride… or Run

So, after a long and seemingly endless trail of crimson, soviet-style red tape, I finally got my visa for the Russian Federation. Sometimes, I question my own sanity when I wait weeks and cough up serious dollars to spend a very limited period of time in a county. In the case of Russia, getting a […]

Busy With Busywork

A few of the skills you have to posses in order to achieve something like driving your own car around the world include good research abilities and more importantly patience. Quite a bit of research goes on behind the scenes here at TWBR as we are constantly trying to gather as much information as possible about […]

3 more days

Cambodia has been a wonderful time.  I really do not want to leave this place, but the show must go on. Tomorrow we will begin our trip to the border of Vietnam and head for Ho Chi Min City.  There we will pick up Bouey’s father and a couple of others to head up north.  […]

Carnet de Passage? Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Carnet de Passage? What is that? This is often the question that we get from a wide variety of people… from people who want to know more about getting their cars overseas to the very shipping companies and customs agents who are supposed to process them for you. For those of you who don’t know […]

Enjoying the Present but Always Preparing for the Future

Anyone that witnessed the arrival of the Tundra and the Sequoia in Sydney can tell you that I was extremely excited but even more so, relieved. Planning for and shipping the Toyotas occupied a good deal of my attention before and after we left the States and in the process, may have also took a few […]