Since our main mode of transportation around the world is by truck, we are always looking for interesting, scenic, and sometimes dangerous roads to drive our Toyotas down. We are constantly on the lookout for something amazing or out of the ordinary because you just never know when you will be driving your own vehicle in that part of […]
Category Archives: Overlanding Tips
Busy With Busywork
September 15, 2007 – 8:58 pm
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 […]
China is Starting to Take its Toll
September 10, 2007 – 4:56 am
Getting into China was quite an undertaking for TWBR and we were excited to get finally get in. However, given the shear size of China and the amount of time we had been granted to get through it, we knew we were in for some long days on the road. As expected, driving in China […]
3 more days
July 22, 2007 – 1:49 am
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. […]
Does Anyone Know Why Shipping Cars is So Difficult?
June 1, 2007 – 11:08 pm
Luckily we did not ship our cars from Australia to Indonesia, because even shipping them to the largest and arguably, most efficient port in the world – Singapore – is proving to be a strain on my mental sanity. I am sure most of you are well aware of the difficulties we had in shipping […]
Carnet de Passage? Qu’est-ce que c’est?
May 8, 2007 – 9:25 pm
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
April 27, 2007 – 7:31 am
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 […]
