Finally we’ve been able to take some time out from enjoying Guatemala and Mexico to finish our second video, Crisscrossing the Andes, from Bolivia to Colombia. We’ve been looking forward to sharing this and some of the spectacular scenery that we’ve experienced. It took us six months of travel, but we’ve condensed it down to 10 minutes for you, flavoured with some local music. We hope you enjoy it.
If you didn’t get a chance to see the short preview video, here it is.
Our other videos are on our blog at www.ourodysseyoverland.com/videos
Our Odyssey Overland 
Just brilliant! Spectacular sights and some scary riding. Loved your dancing too.
Glad you liked it Fiona, thanks for watching!
Hi Matt & Fiona,
I have just watched your second video and loved it. You guys are amazing, I cannot imagine the experiences you have had over the past 15 months. To show 6 months in a 10 minute video is an impossible task and I just want to see so much more of the trip. I have got to ask, are you where you thought you would be by this time and will you be home next January? I can’t believe you will get through US and Canada in the next 8-9 months. Matt having your wallet stolen from your back pocket is an experience I had in Bologna back in 2007 and Sabrina gave me heaps for keeping my wallet in the back pocket. I trust Fiona has stopped reminding you of this incident given the troubles you had getting a new licence.
By the way if you are anywhere around Toronto around 20-24th November we will be there for a wedding and possibly then in Lake Louise for 4 days and then hopefully Seattle around 29th November to 4th December. Katrina’s parent’s in law live in Chattanooga in Tennessee if you are in that state.
Look forward to your regular updates and the next video.
Safe travels
Robert & Sabrina
Dear Robert and Sabrina,
So glad you enjoyed the video. The video making and the blogging have been a great way for us to reflect on all that we have seen and done – after 17 months on the road it gets a bit overwhelming!!
Surprisingly enough, we are pretty much on schedule. Our initial plans were dictated by the seasons (i.e. avoiding the rainy season as we travelled north) and that has worked well. The only major change was the reluctant but realistic decision to avoid Venezuela. That has given us some extra time in Central America & Mexico. We are on track to be home for Christmas this year.
Rhiannon emailed us some great tips for Mexico and we have included most of her ideas in our plans, except for those in the Yucatan – we decided getting out there and back was too many kilometeres for us. Mexico is a fantastic country, we are loving it.
One thing we have learnt time and again on this trip is that less is more so, with regard to the US, we will stick to the west. We will spend about a month going north up the coast as far as Vancouver, then hook east across the Rockies to Calgary and return to LA via the national parks in Utah, Arizona and Colorado in September and into October. We will then investigate shipping the bikes home from California and, once they are on their way, venture somewhere without them. We can’t decide where yet, it will depend on how our budget goes in North America!
I wasn’t upset about the wallet as we’d gone 15 months without incident at that point, but now that you mention it…
Your holiday plans sound fantastic. I think we will be much further south by then, unfortunately.
With love
Fiona and Matt xo