Fellow Travellers Websites (with children!)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Here is a list of the websites of fellow travellers (with children!) we have come across:
Family overlanders using vehicles
Already completed travels
www.a2b.uk.net Pete Sinclair and his family including 3 children and their Land Rover CSW who journeyed though Europe, Middle East, Africa to Cape Town in 2002. What is really special about the Sinclair family is their daughter Poppy - aged 8 at the time - an insulin dependant diabetic since 2 years old so they had extra complications associated with that, but all went well without a problem. What we really liked is what we read about the similar considerations given re: children and 2nd row seating arrangements. Hoping we might be able to pick Pete’s brain over the next year re: CSW. Pete has already provided some information regarding children’s education as follows:
“I have to say that our kids missed virtually nothing in the 7 - 8 months we were away. They were all at Primary School at the time and caught up with stuff within a couple of weeks on our return. We used to chant the times tables every day for 20 minutes when we were driving and the kids kept journals which we emailed back to the schools”.
www.2c2k.net - 2capes2kids - Andrew and Anne Louden and their two young girls who overlanded from Scotland (Cape Wrath to Cape of Good Hope) across Africa during April - November 2007 for a period of 7 months using a Toyota Landcruiser and 2.4. x 2.4 Howling Moon roof tent (we almost considered buying one ourselves!)
www.vlinderen.com - Dutch family and their two children who spent 945 days!!!! on the road and have been back since 2008. Excellent site and we are hoping to pick up home schooling tips!
www.drive-to-oz.com - Graham and Eirenne Naismith and their 3 children - departed May 2008 and returned mid-February 2009 using a Toyota Land Crusier. Stopped en-route in China in time for the 2008 Olympics, car blew up in Thailand which was a bit touch and go. Finally completed their circum-navigation of Australia using a rented vehicle.
www.adventurefamily.se - Lovely website. Adventures of two Swedish families with children and two Land Rovers who returned early 2009.
www.ringdahlfamily.blogspot.com - The Ringdahl Family and their FOUR children using an especially extended Land Rover to do their trip from Sweden to Cambodia between April 2008 to July 2009.
Kai Brethouwer (Dutch), his wife (Kiwi) and two children sold there puppet shop/s and home, bought a van, converted it and then headed off into the sunset in August 2009. There plan was to head from Australia to Holland by end 2010. This was before their 9 year old daughter announced she’d had enough after 4 months traveling and the family had to change their plans.
Currently on the Road
Probably the king of all overland travel families - an Argentinian family Herman and Candelaria with 4 children (all born in different countries on the road) called the Zapp’s who wrote ‘Dream Chaser’ and a best-selling book called ‘Spark your Dream’ from the back of their fantastic fairy-tale car. They have been traveling since January 2000 and are still going strong using their 83 year old British built 1928 Graham Paige model car (given to them by Herman’s grandfather). Before we left on our own trip they were traveling through Australia. They have covered 40 nations, have been traveling 11 years and are now touring SE Asia. A fellow traveler friend of ours called Kai Brethouwer (see above) who lives in Australia got a chance to meet them when they visited there during 2009.
www.lesglen.net
A Swiss family and their two children who live in France. We met them in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia driving a campervan. They left around the same time as us and we think their route reaches as far as Malaysia before heading back through India. The site is in French but has a translation conversion tool.
A link containing a searchable list of RTW travel blogs (mostly flying) of several families:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1774052&tstart=15
Please let us know if you have a website you think we would be interested in researching/following! And please add us to your website if you find us useful. Many thanks.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hi travelers to be,
Great plans you’re having. Wish we would. But than again, we will again go travel. We now are home for about a year after traveling 945 days. It was awesome. Like I said: Do it again in an instant. Will visit your site more and do hope to see you take off for real. Good luck in preparing things for this “once” in a lifetime, but I warn you: Don’t bet on that “once”, when the travel bug gets you it bites hard.
Here is our website: http://www.vlinderen.com/finchroad.
Partly just in Dutch (as we are Dutch) as of Colombia in English too and of course lots of pictures (and film)
Safe Travels and Happy Trails
Carla
July 13th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Thank you Carla. Have read some your site content and looks really interesting. May email you over the coming months for tips. Thanks, Anne
April 8th, 2011 at 11:18 am
Your blog is showing more interest and enthusiasm. Thank you .