The Route

OVERLANDING through present day Africa requires a degree of flex­i­bil­ity. Severe flood­ing can block the only road through a sec­tion of the con­ti­nent and civil war can close a country’s national bor­ders; hence the route is never very direct. The red line below rep­re­sents the track we drove south in 2004. The first weeks were VERY cold. It took seven months to cross the con­ti­nent, top to bot­tom. The green line rep­re­sents our trav­els around South­ern Africa in 2006; doc­u­mented under the head­ing ‘New Reports’ on this site. The green line rep­re­sents our trav­els around South­ern Africa in 2006; also doc­u­mented under ARCHIVED REPORTS on this site. The dot­ted green line is the ferry route that the Buggy took to North Amer­ica. Adven­tures from the Amer­i­cas can also be found under ARCHIVED REPORTS. In 2010, after six years on the road, Tom finally set­tled in Los Ange­les (for the moment) and is presently CEO of Radical.FM.

Click on any coun­try for details. The infor­ma­tion that will be dis­played has been com­piled by the CIA. We feel it is the most com­pre­hen­sive sin­gle source avail­able. How­ever, it should be bourn in mind that it emanates from a main­stream Amer­i­can perspective.