Welcome to our travel blog

After nine years living and working in the city, we have quit New York to go and do something more interesting.

We will spend the next year or so travelling the world in a Toyota Landcruiser. We are working with Footloose 4x4 to customize the vehicle over the next few months so that we are set up for long range travel.

A rough idea of where we are going looks like this: we plan to leave the UK in the very early New Year 2008, go down through France and Spain and then cross over to Morocco. From there we head down the Atlantic coast to Senegal and the Gambia (this road is now paved across the Sahara) before turning inland through Mali and Niger. From Niger we head south through Burkina Faso to Ghana, and from there we simply follow the coast round down to South Africa. Some of the highlights will include Togo and Benin (the home of voodoo) and Namibia which is a geologist's dream.

We aren't committed to any given route and are far more interested in getting involved in interesting projects as we go along. We have no real idea what will happen or where we will end up. But we will figure it out.

For now we are living in the most beautiful location right at the south end of the Lake District in north-western England. We are staying in a cottage on a small farm in the middle of nowhere. Our only neighbors are sheep and cattle, a far cry fron our city days... Coco is our resident dog with a taste for hunting wabbits.