Horizon Chasing
Thanks for dropping by. This is Sam Watson’s blog – sometimes writer for various magazines, traveller, writer, geographer, conservationist and itinerant scruff. Insta – samwatson4994 / X – SamWatson__ / Fb – Sam Watson
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Defender 110, 130, 130 CSW, 142 or 145?
The time has come to think about a refit for Elsa, my 1991 Defender 110. She is nigh on 400,000 reliable miles old, many of which have been solo in the Sahara, and she has been a real trooper since I bought her 17 years ago. However her bulkhead and chassis needed patching for her…
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Plastic moulded fuel containers
For a couple of years I’ve been intrigued by the US-designed Rotopax plastic fuel cells that can be stored on vertical or horizontal surfaces in a vehicle or on a quad or bike. They are quite small (1, 2 or 4 US gallon) and very pricey but their design is innovative and lends itself to…
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Finally! Update… Balkans to the Highlands
Gosh. Many apologies for silence til now! Two months without a post….. fairly hectic. So initially after flying home to the UK I drove to Albania. Like you do. When I left Cairo eighteen months ago a friend, Darrell, was also leaving and kindly shipped some of my household bits and bobs to his new…
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Defender for sale (not mine!)
A friend, David Clinton Marcus, is selling his left-hand-drive 1998 Defender Tdi CSW. He’s just completed a journey from Kazakhstan to South Africa in this Landy. However he’s now in Jamaica where a Land Rover is rather wasted so the old beast is sadly up for sale. Fully kitted for her next trip and with…
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Thought for the Day
“It is a curious fact, and one to which no-one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonyx, or gee-N’N-T’N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand variations on this…
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Preparing for a visit home, and other stories
I’ve been quiet for a while – sorry! Life gets in the way sometimes. Quite a bit to report. I’ve been investigating various bits of interesting new gear – not least of which the Kamp Rite Tent Cot from the USA; Basically this is a flat-pack tent on a camp bed chassis. It sets up…
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