Category: Roads and Transport

SOUTH WEST COLORADO This is our third visit to Colorado while overlanding the USA. In 2023 we covered the Northern and Southwest part of Colorado, this time 2024 we entered from Kansas in the Southeast of Colorado. Following the Highway of Legends covering the historic routes that have long been…

Kansas is located halfway between the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean. It also is home to the geographic centre of 48 states in the USA, near the town of Lebanon. (Not included Alaska and other outlaying states). Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado border Kansas. The State gradually rises from east to west….

MISSOURI (ROUTE 66)  Missouri is in the Central Region of the USA; Missouri played a major role in the Westward expansion of the USA. This is memorialized by the Gateway Arch in St Louis. Coming from the East, Missouri earned the nickname Gateway to the West because it served as…

ROUTE 66 In the South East corner of Kansas. Kansas is in the Central USA.  Kansas is named after the Kansas River and the capital city is Topeka. More about Kansas once we return West towards Colorado. Since we arrived in Texas, we arrived in Tornado Alley.  We have been…

OKLAHOMA  Oklahoma is a state in the central Region of the USA. The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw word Okla which means red. We are told 26 native American languages are spoken in Oklahoma and nearly 15% of Oklahomans are American Indians, which is the highest indigenous population of…

This post will discuss Route 66 in Texas. In a few months we will travel a little more south in Texas the most populous state in the southern region of the United States, after we return from the Northern part of Mexico and the Baja California. Route 66 has many…

NEW MEXICO, ROUTE 66. Defiance to Glenrio (Arizona State Border till Texas State Border) New Mexico claims 745 kilometres of Route 66’s Chicago to Los Angeles journey. The interstate (i40) runs over top of the old highway in many places. The desert landscape, the red cliffs, pine wooded hills and…

Phoenix to Holbrook Leaving Phoenix, we decided to bypass the highway and drove Northwest towards Wickenburg and the old mining towns of Congress and Stanton at the base of the Weaver Mountains. The highway climbs the mountains on a series of switchbacks, known as Yarnell Hill, offering spectacular views of…

SUDAN Sudan is one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world, with about one-third of its inhabitants dependent on farming and animal husbandry for their livelihoods. Sudan is the largest, yet one of the least visited, countries in Africa overlanders. Much of the Middle East has a reputation for…

Namibia is a tourist destination in Africa offering great wild life, 2 nomad tribes the Himba and the Herero, The second largest canyon in the world and Etosha National Park is the best National Park in Africa. For those interested in off road driving lots of huge dunes, dry river…