I’ve decided to ditch the Facebook posts to my personal page. So all future posts should be copies to the OverLandBirds Facebook profile. I hope the changes work….!This of course means I need to post somethings twice and effectively doubles…

We are staying in the Club Germania in Lima and its pretty damn OK. For free we have a flat car park , security, a Cafe and the best showers since Eldoret Africa. If we want to use the pool…

As I`ve said before we hate the beach….Paracas was OK. Pisco is crap. So there you have it. For the first time in ages were are in an internet cafe doing internet stuff. So no photos as I don`t plug…

I know which I’d rather have…..can you guess….one of them is so cheap and they other not so much. After one of them you feel full and the other your wallet is empty….After leaving La Paz we stopped in Copacabana…

We’ve been in Oberland too long and should be leaving tomorrow. We’ve finally been caught up by Henning and we’ve had a meal and a drink. He’s been filling us in on his adventures in both Africa and South America.…

Named after the film America Visa….Although,,,, we should be picking ours up tomorrow. The film is about a Bolivian National who applies for a US Visa……strange coincidence ?My mother will be pleased to know they didn’t even want to see…

Oh how I hated this series but only after it ended. I wasted so much of my life watching it….the worse ending of all time.Anyhow, our receipt number for the $160usd each isn’t being accepted by the system CSC so…

Today we went to pay for our USA B2 visa…..$160usd each. The process is long and made even worse by the “IT” systems in place. There are two systems to log on to and complete various “hoops” to apply for…

There you have it. “Death Road” completed. To be honest its not scary at all. The road is wide enough and not busy. There’s worse tracks in Morocco….much worse and much more scary although not a beautiful. The start turn…

The other day we stayed in Cochabamba, a medium sized town spread over a large area. We stayed in a cheap hostel in the centre as they had parking. It was only 100BOL for the hostel which is about £10.…

Julies recent double trouble with her cut to the hand and toothache have turned out fine. The hand in healing and the toothache is gone thanks to the Antibiotics. We are going to try missing the next pain medication dose…

Julie has a (mother of all) toothache and has had it for a few days. She can’t sleep due to the pain and of course its a holiday weekend. Luckily the owners of the campsite know people and got one…

We met our first overlanders for ages in Uyuni and there’s a photo of their self built truck below. Pretty amazing what you can do with an old army flat bed Iveco. We went and messed around on the salt…