[LivinLOS]

My little brother continually talks about using a support vehicle and DV cams and doing BKK to London on a Honda wave !!! Doing it lad style and making a video diary then punting it to Ch 4 or one of the more alternative networks...

I seriously considered doing London to Capetown in a landrover once.. I have done UK to Morocco, Southern Algeria, Mautitainia, Spanish Sahara, enough times to have lost exact count (8 - 10) and enjoy overland adventures like that as its the unplannable and elements of risk that make life interesting..

Look at the Benedict Alan guy.. Now considered an 'explorer' / 'adventurer' and offered finance for any mad adventure for walking the Namib with a DV cam and a camel, no offence but hardly Mr Charisma..

To me the best job in the world would be David Attenbourghs or Micheal Palins.. Second best would be to carry his bags.. I really love that setting off into the unknown without a real plan.. Just money and a map and curiosity..

Really want to do China.. Getting a bit of a travel urge lately..

Always reminds of of that Tolkien lines (dont worry I know there was limericks but I am not gonna start spouting prose all the time)..

"The road leads ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say."

Makes me think of so many family adventures setting off in converted K9 military transports, horse coaches, etc, to hippy homes.. Doing the N african hippy trail (my auntie and her families did the Afgan to India route a few times, right through the Hindu Kush !!).. Those were adventures not holidays !!!