From Rat Race to Road Trip: Overlanding With Four Dogs!
“We can’t go to Mongolia if you can’t cope with this.”
Mark’s words stung like a whip. I felt desolate.
On a strip of yellow dirt, in a 16-tonne truck, with nowhere to turn around, we were lost somewhere in southern Albania.
Here is a fabulous short film created by Sophie and Ryan of Liveration about our lifestyle in The Beast, a self-converted Volvo N10 truck, which has been our home since July 2021.
At Butrint, in southwestern Albania, we discovered tranquillity, jewel colours, fecund nature, and a sense of history that rustled through the trees like a whisper from the past.
Appearances can be deceptive.
In some ways, the articulated lorries made us feel a little better. Clearly, the narrow, winding mountain road could take large traffic. In other ways, however, it tested our nerve. Albanian drivers have no qualms about nipping around lorries, or even other cars already overtaking them, on blind bends, regardless of what might be coming.
Also, in a Beast-sized truck, confrontations with artics in places where our offside wheels had to trust a crumbling road margin abutted to the edge of a cliff made the drive on the main highway to Sarandë somewhat more adrenalin infused than we expected.
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