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Along the way our travels take us to some incredibly scenic places and sights and we took a lot of pictures. These are some of our favourite pictures. Hope you enjoy!
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Happy snow day Saturday! ❄️
When I told Brie @brie.the.rover.pup yesterday that she was to go see Santa on Saturday I’m pretty sure she was dreaming in the night for more snow.
And… lo & behold her wish came true!
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Well… I guess the white stuff had to start falling sometime. Made it thru all of November tho without the white stuff.
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Our lass Brie @brie.the.rover.pup enjoying some warm November Kootenay sunshine with what else… some Rovers!
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It’s a pretty spectacular day today here in the West Kootenays and… it’s the middle of November! 😎
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“Lest we forget”
We may not know them all, but we owe them all.
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Happy side shot Saturday!
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2 weeks ago today we welcomed some new friends we met on our Arctic Adventure to our base in the West Kootenays.
Marc & Vale @_dive_n_drive_ shipped their Toyota Troopy over from Zurich, Switzerland earlier this year with the goal of doing the Pan Am Highway from north to south.
We met them in early September at a camp spot we were sharing with our friend John @agatsuadventures and his Belgian Malinois Layka.
The 5 of us and 2 doggos hit it off immediately and had a really memorable time at Morley Lake.
It was incredible to see Marc & Vale again and to be able to offer them a hot meal, hot showers, laundry and lots of hugs. We at Going Global Overland wish these two our very best and we hope our paths will cross again in the future. ❤️ you two!
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Happy Halloween 👻 🎃 Everyone from Team Fitz & Going Global Overland!
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These 2 overlanding Land Rovers ‘Stormtrooper’ @danielvmuller based out of South Africa 🇿🇦 and our ‘Fitz’ based out of Canada 🇨🇦 have become friends with both crews now friends for life.
Great time together this summer in BC & Alaska.
The two Defenders are now over 1800kms apart from each other, but yesterday unbeknownst to each they both posed beside gorgeous red fall trees. 🍁
Great minds eh!
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Some days are just magical!
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Thanksgiving is one of my favourite times of the year. The fall colours of the trees and garden veggies are magnificent and seriously Thanksgiving dinners are truly the best!
However, we all must remember not to be thankful just at Thanksgiving time but each and every day.
Be grateful of everything in your life, especially your freedom.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! 🍁
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Happy Birthday 🎂 to the one & only David @going.global.overland
To my amazing husband ~ Here’s to another year of us laughing at our own jokes, dealing with stupid people and trying to keep each other sane!
Here’s to the next 25 years of every day always being an adventure!
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The days may be getting shorter & the nights a wee bit cooler, but our base in the Kootenays is… paradise!
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Northwest Challenge 2023 kicks off tomorrow!
We at Going Global Overland want to wish Pieter @rova_piet , Don @rova_don ,Leo @rova_leo ,Karen, volunteers & crew the best of luck for safe & fun NWC event this year.
To the NWC2023 Challengers - Teams have a great event, we are rooting for all of you to finish!
Sorry we couldn’t be there this year, but we are with you in spirit. Have fun!
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We left last Thursday for what was to be a quick(ish) run to Vernon for an appt and back on Saturday.
Turned out to be much more and 5 fantastic days.
The fall colours everywhere were splendid, we camped at the top of the Monashees Thursday night and work up to almost 6” of snow, had great fun with our very good Rover pals Jim & Carla, attended Carla’s fundraiser charity for a local chappie with cancer on Saturday morning and did our bit buying baked goods & hotdogs, met up & camped with more very good Rover pals Don @rova_don & Pieter @rova_piet, Brie checked out old Mr Coomes’ cabin, picked up some of my fave jams at Parsons in Keremeos, and checked out more cool stuff as we meandered back to our base. Such fun!!
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We weren’t settling like we thought after a week back from our long Arctic Adventure trip so we took off again on Monday this week. It was my birthday on Tuesday and as we did a ‘birthday tour’ for Dave @going.global.overland last year we decided it was my turn.
Headed into north eastern Washington over to northern Idaho and into northern Montana and back into BC.
4 days of great weather, lots to see and fun with Brie @brie.the.rover.pup
Stopped at 2 dams, hiked about in a thousands year old grotto-cave, checked out the locals, visited Sandpoint (I was there when I was 5), Dave got a SnoCat fix, saw more cool rock formations, found fantastic spots to camp and picked up more squash from Wlonka Farms in Creston.
Great adventure!
Thanks muchly to everyone who sent me birthday greetings by texts & email this week. Nice to be remembered.
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We checked out the Harrop Harvest Festival on Sunday, it was small & great!!
Listened to a little Ry Cooder being played by a local 3 piece blues band, Brie was chillin’ listening to the music, checked out the wares at the stalls, had a great lunch (I had homemade pumpkin coconut curry soup 😋) and Fitz wasn’t the only Land Rover there. Such fun!
Some of the amazing animals we saw on our recent Arctic Northern Adventure. One day we saw 20 bears!
My favourite tho was the Musk Ox as I had never seen them before except on TV of in books. They are very impressive and much smaller than you would think.
We did find it odd that other than the Musk Ox, reindeer & sea lions which were in Alaska, all other wildlife we spotted was in BC!
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Our Arctic Northern Adventure ended today when we arrived back to our base in the West Kootenays about 4:00pm.
55 days, 13,458 kms, 4 provinces (BC, YT, NWT, AB), 1 state (Alaska), 2 oceans, 7 ferries, 95 International licence plates spotted, 37 Land Rovers spotted, 1 Sherpa, 29 Snocats (Dave’s faves), 2 dredges, 169 Bison, 62 Dall Sheep, 60 Ptarmigan, 44 bears, 24 Arctic Terns, 18 swans, 15 elk, 11 deer, 10 Musk Ox (not wild), 10 herons, 10 wild turkeys, 8 reindeer, 7 caribou, 6 Bighorn Sheep, 4 moose, 3 eagles, 3 wild ostriches, 3 wild bunnies, 2 marmots, 2 sea lions, 2 loons, 1 beluga, 1 cormorant, 1 coyote & 1 wolverine.
It was an amazing adventure!
We met so many people some now friends for life.
Fitz, our Defender was a champ, our new Bobcat camper worked really well and Brie our young Rover Pup did fantastic and had such a good time, making friends everywhere she went. Brie turned 1 year on Aug 2nd whilst in the Yukon.
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We spotted these 2 cuties yesterday south of Cranbrook at a place selling mostly old Toyota Land Cruisers.
The white Series 3 88” had a sign hanging from the rear view mirror saying “Sold, to some really nice people.” Nice!
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Just your typical family out Sunday shopping in Radium today.
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We spotted this great looking Range Rover Classic in Jasper the over day.
Hard to find a good looking Range Rover any more.
Turns out this Rangie’s 1st overland trip was to Australia and as well he has done all of South & Central America. Wow!
‘Reginald Rover’ or ‘Reggie’ for short is a 1995 RRC wrapped around a 2.8 TGV.
Reggie is based out of Arizona right now with his owners Tim & Shannon who think Reggie is simply the best.
We do too… and his owners as well!
Great meet up.
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Today we at Going Global Overland would like to wish our very good friend the unstoppable, invincible and always up for a ‘challenge’ Don MacDonald @rova_don a very very Happy Birthday!
Mate, we have known you since you were a young lad and we are proud to call you our friend, have a great birthday weekend, you soooooo deserve it!
Love, Team Fitz
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We had to say our final good-byes to Sascha, Daniel, Savannah, Noah & Stormtrooper on Wednesday as our paths were now not going in the same direction.
We feel like the 7 of us just might be family now. So much fun with them all!
We will miss them and me thinks a trip to visit them in South Africa is in the cards.
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Campsites don’t get much better than this one!
We have stayed at the LaSalle Rec Site off Hwy 16 twice before and it never disappoints.
Not only is it a free BC Rec Site it is always stunningly beautiful.
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Great camp spot with great overlanding friends last night along the Muskwa River just south of Fort Nelson.
Sascha & family caught up to us yesterday along the Alaska Highway.
We are really going to miss these 4 and their Defender 130 ‘Stormtrooper’.
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Happy Birthday Noah! 🎂
Dave @going.global.overland , Brie @brie.the.rover.pup & I were thrilled to be included in your birthday celebrations this morning as you turned 8 years old.
You have been a treat to share time with over these last few weeks.
We wish you all our best lad!
Noah & his family are overlanding over here from South Africa with their Defender 130.
Safe travels to you & your amazing family.
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Wow!
What a night we had last night - one of the best!
We ran into John @agatsuadventures (we share a mutual friend Glenna @belviewbeach) at Johnson’s Crossing yesterday.
We ended up selecting a camp for the night together at Morley Lake.
Shortly after set up a Toyota Troopy rolled in with Swiss plates. Cool!
Long story short the 3 of us invited this amazing Swiss couple Marc & Vale @_dive_n_drive_ to camp with us.
It started to pour down and next thing I knew all 5 of us were stuffed inside our Bobcat, Brie included. Sadly John put Layka his 6 yr old Belgian Malinois into his Jeep to sleep.
The 5 of us (Brie included) spent a fantastic few hours dry inside the Bobcat laughing our heads off, eating cheese & pepperoni (Brie included) and Swiss chocolate (none for Brie).
What fun!!
You just never know who you will meet or have cross your path when you are out overlanding.
Such fun!
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Met up with our pals Russ, Lucy & wee Jolena with their Defender 130 ‘Gerries’ in Whitehorse and wished them well with their travels further north.
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A few shots from last Friday’s drive back from Skagway to Whitehorse.
Most along Tagish Lake are close to the area my dad was working at in the late 1960s.
I totally get why he loved the Yukon so much!
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