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.