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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Chasing Trucks – in a Series 1 to the Alps
Note – this is a trip report from 2015, before the UK suicidally jumped from the EU. So border crossings are a lot simpler here! My friend Ben Stowe who runs overland and restoration specialists Black Paw 4×4 in York had taken a year to rebuild and restore his 1949 Land Rover 80” soft top,
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Desert camping
After yesterday’s discussion about how to scout and set up a camp in an arid rocky valley, it might be worth extending the view and talking about actual desert camps. Typically an overlander’s first experience of a desert camp might be Morocco or Tunisia and, though the “real” desert is fast vanishing from those places,
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Camping in rocky wadis (valleys)
Over the last 7 years most of my overlanding has been travelling around the southeastern parts of the Arabian peninsula, where I’m based for most of the time – in the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Many of these areas are mountainous and therefore many of my overnight halts have been in steep-sided rocky valleys,
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The language of travel
Learning languages to help communication when traveling overland is a multi-sided issue. On the one hand it opens doors and makes friends if you can chat to someone with even a few words of their own language, on the other hand it can get you into trouble fast, and then leave you high and dry
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Building the perfect beast
(With apologies to Don Henley) Given a clean sheet of paper, how would you go about creating your perfect overland truck? Gather ten overlanders and you will get twenty opinions. Everyone has different ideas and experiences; different needs and tasks for the vehicles, varied expectations of terrain and difficulties to face, different ideas of ergonomics
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The Pirate Coast of Arabia
The eastern edge of Arabia holds the countries of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. Both are a beautiful mixture of mountains and desert, and both have a fascinating and adventurous history which supports them as they move into the 21st Century. Both countries count the Land Rover as the first motor car that they
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