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Sep 26

Today marks a special milestone in our travels. 1,000 days on the road. Looking back it's been a crazy collection of stunning locations, amazing people, incredible experiences, highs and lows. For James, one month of that 1,000 days was spent visiting home, staying wth friends and catching up. Claire has spent the full 1,000 days outside of Canada. Most of that time we have spent living in the back of a truck, but we haven't missed the opportunity to make the most of a location (or make lockdown a little more bearable) by renting an AirBNB or a hotel. We also morphed from Overlanders to Backpackers for three weeks when, on the spur of the moment, we decided to add Cuba to the list.⠀
We have visited 13 Countries, driven over 45,000 kilometres and we have stayed at 336 different locations.

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Sep 18

Hopefully the weather will hold out for some climbing today. We plan to be here at @lapenaabejorral for around 4 or so days. Who knows. It was hard to leave last time as this is such a beautiful area.

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Sep 17

With borders still closed we get to enjoy Colombia a little longer and have headed back to @lapenaabejorral ⠀
We loved this place the first time around. A cute little hostal perched on a hillside beneath a great climbing spot. There is a tight 10km trail from the valley bottom that, if you are lucky, is free of buses coming the other way.

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Sep 16

We're really enjoying the Antioquia mountains around Venecia. Beautiful scenery and perfect trails. Thanks to @rjstebbings and family for letting us stay with them.

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Sep 15

- This is Colombia.⠀
We dropped into a small mountain town called Venecia to get some cell signal so we could work. We went early to have lunch. We've literally been here an hour and people have been looking us up on Instagram, three people have offered us a place to stay and a super nice couple tracked us down in a restaurant to come and say hello. #Colombianos te amo!

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Sep 14

Heading up into the hills to deliver our rescue kitten ‘Ocho’ to his new home. Nice to be back on some trails again.

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Sep 10

We are on the road again. For those of you who didn’t know, we now have a kitten in tow. Not entirely planned. We visited this wonderful animal sanctuary on the way to Suesca for some climbing. We had planned to drop him here but that would mean being an indoor cat .... so, we are looking for somewhere else and have a lead for a finca in Medellin. 9 hours in the other direction. Oh, well. We have time!

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Jun 5

From the archives: This shot was taken in Playa de Belen. A sweet, quiet town of permanently whitewashed walls with burgundy trim. The residents are proud of their town and the smell of paint is ever present! We spent a week or so here with @kissmybay before heading south to Bucaramanga.

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May 29

#Nabusimake and it’s idyllic mountain setting offers a travel experience gem at every turn. We found three grubby but smiling faces peering though the undergrowth in a flower filled meadow, clearly keen to see who the white faces were. A massive cultural divide bridged with some smiles and broken Spanish. Never has ‘meeting the locals’ been so extraordinary.

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May 22

Another pic from the archives. An incredible ‘step back in time’ in the Sierra Nevada mountains. We’d spent a day or two in #pueblobello before getting permission to enter the idyllic indigenous Arawak village of #nabusimake
It was closed to ‘outsiders’ but after chatting over lunch with one of the tribe members we were granted an overnight stay with her aunt inside the village. The location, high in the Sierra Nevada, is epically beautiful. Based along a immaculate river the thatched huts and white dressed locals are picture perfect (unfortunately they are not keen on having their picture taken). It really was a holy grail travel moment; an intimate immersion in an ancient culture with little integration with the outside world. Simply stunning. This picture shows one of the Arahuacos installing a new roof on his home.

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May 20

Another shot from the archives. This one was from Jericho, a small colourful town in Colombia’s coffee region. We stopped overnight on the way to Filandia, similar town but Jericho was far less touristy.

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May 15

We’re digging the archives for pictures from our trip that we haven’t posted. This one was a stop gap following desperate search for cell data. As usual, we got set up 3 minutes before Claire was due online. Windy, dusty, and with some strange looks from the Wayuu tribe passers by. Another example of how diverse Colombia is.

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Apr 30

Weaving our way through the Cocora Valley. There is a little forest of wax palms half way around the trail, but before we got there we spent a night high up in the pines; which felt very Canadian.

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Apr 17

I was going to put our feed on hold, while we sat out the covid nonsense. But, I think it’s a good opportunity to grab some snapshots of this unique point in history. Today was vegetable and fruit delivery day at the campground. Masked men pulling into your location in a truck might usually be seen as a threat, thy fact that it’s necessary and respectful is a sign of the times.

Occasionaly they screw up our order. They don’t know how many of us are here (45) so our order of 18kg of bananas gets ‘corrected’ to just 18 bananas. But, getting your groceries delivered is marvellous.

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Apr 13

Taking the trail through the Cocora Valley. It seems a world away now. Overlanding’s nomadic lifestyle is a significant distance away from being in lockdown! But ... we’re still in Colombia, still living in the camper and still enjoying the fact that my bathroom, coffee, fridge, chocolate cupboard, office and bed are all literally one step away from each other.

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Mar 28

/// Follow our new run page @theglobalrunproject
Before overlanding we were competitive triathletes. The bike and swim were always going to be too hard to maintain. But the simplicity of running is the perfect balance of fitness and ability to be consistent. We can actually maintain a decent level of run performance. The locations we run in are sometimes amazing. So we decided to get some shots and create an IG feed of us running in those places. The Global Run Project is based on us running in as many places as possible and trying to get others to take up running too.
Obviously the current quarantine situation isn’t the greatest time for a variety of locations but we have some in the bag already PLUS we now have adults and kids in the campsite running too!

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Mar 14

It’s great being back in the desert. Hit, but dry. And I love the wide open spaces and lack of people. This part of Tatacoa is a bit ‘lunar’ there is also a small part that us red rock and very pretty, but you can’t drive in it. Pics of that to follow.

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Mar 10

Sherpa peeks through the palms of the Palm Forest in the #valledecocora Tall, skinny palm trees and a skinny dirt trail. Slow going, with 50+ kilometres taking a few hours. The overnight camp spot really reminded us of camping in Canada. No roosters or dogs was an added bonus!

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Mar 5

My first self instigated rappel. We have been assured the nerves of setting up the rope, and then trusting you haven’t screwed up as you lower yourself over the edge, is something that will dissipate over time. Always fun to try new things and #suesca was an amazing location for us to learn.

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Mar 4

The mass of colour in #Colombia makes photography an easy feat. You can usually close you eyes, point, shoot and come up with something interesting. Our trail through the mountains dropped us into Buenos Aires (Colombia) at school closing time. Their school bus was a Escalero (possibly even spelled like that). A colourful, super wide, fairground ride of a bus with bench seats and little in the way of appreciation for personal space. The kids were as in awe of our camper as we were in their bus.

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Mar 3

Sitting pretty in amongst a huge swathe of coffee plants. This little road snuck through the fincas around Chinchiná in the upper part of Colombia’s #coffee zone.

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