Welcome
Hello and welcome to our website! We are from Sydney, Australia, and after 5 years of planning and saving, we packed up and sold up to travel around the world on motorbikes with our dogs. We bought two BMW 650 GS’s in Texas, kitted up then headed south for the adventure of a life time. We hope to travel all across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia before completing our adventure with a tour of all 7 of Australia's states and territories. Well, thats the plan anyway!
We are tracking our story with regular blogs and videos as well as almost daily posts to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. So please have a look around our site, leave comments, contact us with any questions and we hope you enjoy.
OUR MISSION
To travel around the World with our dogs on motorbikes.
This is the adventure of a lifetime! We want to experience the diverse cultures and landscapes of the worlds countries and continents. At the same time we hope to break down the barriers of pet travel by bringing our pet dogs on the journey with us and showing people how easy it is to do.
We also support the work of World Animal Protection, if you also want to help this cause you can donate by clicking on the link further down the page.
Time on the road
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Pet Movement through Southern Africa
Told in the collective first person, jointly from Stu and Janell Clarke's perspective. We'd had issues entering South Africa from Namibia due to the dogs, but it was easy enough to overcome. What was needed was an animal import permit. Once issued this document could be used to import an animal into any of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries and was valid for 30 days. Getting the animal import permit in Namibia had been straight forward. We visited the state vet near the South African border and they checked our paperwork and produced the permit on the spot. But our stay in South Africa had extended beyond the 30 days, which meant we'd need a new permit to continue travelling through the customs union. Obtaining the permit in South Africa proved to be a little more bureaucratic than Namibia. We visited a local vet who explained that they would normally conduct a preliminary examination and then send off the documents to Johannesburg for the permit with a turnaround t...
Vineyards & Wildlife, South Africa
Told in the collective first person, jointly from Stu and Janell Clarke's perspective. We spent two fantastic months in South Africa. But it almost didn't happen, sorting out paperwork problems for the dogs took us three attempts to cross from Namibia into South Africa. Tensions were high for two very important reasons. Firstly, we'd sent Janell's motorbike ahead to Pretoria after its breakdown in northern Namibia. And secondly, Janell's mother (Pauline) was flying into Cape Town on 11 June to spend 5 weeks travelling with us. So we needed to cross into South Africa one way or another. The most direct route to Janell's motorbike in Pretoria was via the Ariamsvlei Border Crossing. We arrived at the border and started processing our checkout of Namibia and then into South Africa. We were almost through when the customs official asked us for the Animal Movement Permits for the girls. We didn't know what they were and simply showed the EU PETS Passports. The official explained that we s...
Namibia
Told in the collective first person, jointly from Stu and Janell Clarke's perspective. The Republic of Namibia reminded us of central Australia. There is so much untouched country, desert left to the animals that can survive there. It was the first time in Africa we really felt remote, away from people and infrastructure. Namibia is a large country but with only a small population of 3 million yet it's in a better economic situation than its northern neighbour Angola. I think what we enjoyed so much was the 'western' luxuries in towns and cities but then being able to leave those behind to be in the wild. The best of both worlds. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Namibia, even with the breakdowns we experienced. Welcome to Namibia Elephant Poo We did a lot of camping in Namibia and we seemed to have the campsites to ourselves. Using iOverlander for recommendations/reviews we chose campsites set up near known waterholes where wild animals would frequent at certain times of the ye...
