Thought I’d give my life story a rest for one minute to bring you some wonderful linkage to other sites around the blogosphere that may be of interest to you.

First off is “The Journey Continues“.

I found this blog whilst on Blog Search for anything tagged with Overland. Silama, the author is constructing his very own wagon for travelling across, well, anywhere I suppose. I have to say that this is one of my own dreams, construct (or buy) my own campervan / expedition vehicle.

Unfortunately my off-centre mind has now conjured up the image of me perched atop a truck pointing to the distance and declaring in a distinctly pirate fashion “We be a goin yonder thata way! yarrr”

I’m not sure why the pirates came about, perhaps thats another crazy plan that I’ve secretly got lodged in my mind.

Prepare ye’selves for “Pirate Wannabe” blog… coming soon, or perhaps not, still if enough of you ask then i’m sure I could photoshop something, you weirdos! hehe!

… And then this caught my eye….

Perhaps the mightiest beast of all beasts. Based on the Unimog, but almost completely rebuilt is this monolith.

The description of the MaxiMog sums it up really

“The base vehicle is a highly modified Mercedes Benz Unimog chassis with a custom body, completely new power plant, computer controlled suspension, and integrated electrical, hydraulics and electronics systems.
Many of the onboard navigation, power, lighting, communications, computation and electro-optics systems were developed specifically for this vehicle.”

I FINALLY QUIT MY JOB

For the first time in ages I am truly happy, have not come home and ranted and raved about this or that. weight off shoulders, in control of my life.

The only trouble is…… what am i going to do now.

i’d rather not think about that right now. Also congratulations to my wonderful colleague who I know reads this from time to time.

She may not think it now but it really is the best thing to happen to her – she can now get out and experience new things, and hopefully find a job where she is valued fully and will become one of the best damn people in her field of expertise. Change may seem scary, but it truly is the most repleneshing energy source.

Also, check out my wonderful RSS feed (and snazzy rad logo)

Happy Travellin’
Overland Si

Hey all,

In a change from the usual links to a.n.other website I have included below some literary goodness direct from the shores of (The) Amazon.

OVERLAND-A Mercedes-Benz Journey Through The Americas

Product Description
Overland-A Mercedes-Benz Journey Through The Americas-is a journey, a year-long road trip from Colorado to Argentina and back covering 34,000 miles through 17 countries. On this incredible journey, the author and his vehicle are faced with military roadblocks, confusing border crossings, high altitude mountain passes and steamy jungles. Not only does OVERLAND describe the hardships, lonliness and daily challenges of being behind the wheel day after day, it also speaks of the wonderfull people met on the road and the incredible beauty of the world we live in.

Sahara Overland, 2nd: A Route and Planning Guide

Happy Travellin‘ Reading

OverlandSi

Hey hey!

I finally got round to that “makeover” I promised ages ago. Come check it out and let me know what you think. I’m off to fix the comments facility on a friend’s blog.

Happy Travellin’
OverlandSi
(In a considerably better mood than I was earlier, but still don’t want to go back to work)

Life on Hold…Until the end of the week

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
WHOMEVER STOLE IT GIVE IT BACK
………..YE BASTARD!

Gruss Gott alles – or – hello faithful readers.

I keep apologising for having late updates – so new rule. An eternal apology, I am useless at writing down my thoughts, have had loads of work on and been working away on other stuff. That’s it though, from now on all posts will not include an apology if they’re late.

So where the crap am I at now?

Well grab a coffee and sit down. This may take a while….

First off – Overland jobs.

Not going so well on this front. It is an understandably hard industry to get into, which is good because it means that if you do take a trip with one of the reputable companies you can almost guarantee that you will get experienced and knowledgable staff.

So that put me back into after a series of knock backs I started to wonder if there really was a possibility of getting out and living the travelling life.

Well luckily for me a good read through www.adventurejobs.co.uk reaffirmed that there were hundreds of positions available, just in slightly different areas.

From there I decided to start off small, perhaps just book some of the more adventurous travel holidays, gain experience through that whilst still in my current job and then eventually after a few years move on and go ful throttle into what I want to do. This idea was almost settled upon and I was just getting prepared to shift into full gear at work so as to be able to save up enough money when the Credit Crunch came and swallowed this plan whole, bastard didn’t even chew.

At the firm I work for we all know things are tough. Then we lost a big big contract. The managers are predicting losses although they are trying to keep hold of staff for as long as possible, which they see as the correct move and I can understand why.

But this leaves a predicament, to go out and find a position now and then quit or wait around for redundency use the settlement to fund a bit of round the world travel.

Should I tell my boss that I’m looking to leave and will go quickly and quietly for a smaller redundency package? Or will they just say that if I want to quit I should quit? Or do I just go for it – I want to leave anyway so what  am I hanging around for?

I am lucky enough not to have a mortgage, or any debts. I have always saved money but this was for a “rainy day” fund – does this count as a rainy day? Or should I save it for when things are more dire? Can they get anymore Dire?

Usually I am able to make a decision in seconds – just go with gut feeling, but I have no real gut feeling on this one. Yes I’d love to travel but can you really live on the salaries made doing travel jobs?

Too many questions and not enough answers at the moment. I’m just stuck at the moment, not wanting to be somewhere but not knowing where to go. Any questions, comments or slaps in the face are duly welcome. Actually – no more questions!

Happy Travellin’
OverlandSi

Yes after many many kilometres I have now arrived back in the UK. Damn.

So how are you all? Anyone make any New Years Resolutions? Anyone broken them yet? Good, join the club. I hate new years resolutions, they never really work for me, I usually end up just doin whatever it was I resolved not to do in the first place. So this year I decided my resolution would not be to give anything up, but to actually go out and do something. Hence I shall now be attempting to spend every weekend doing something or going somewhere different.

Which might actually make this blog interesting… Nah, probably not.

Anyways im off for a few hours of sleep.

Oh and Happy New Year to all