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Stonehenge to Cape Town - 1 year budget breakdown & costs

Hi folks,

We have now finished our trip and have been gathering our data together to share with others who might be preparing a similar trip. We kept a log of everything we spent, where we spent it and on what. To that end I have just published a 1 year breakdown of costs for 2 people and 1x4x4 for 1 year traveling North to South.

You can read the article here, and will post this as a formal report on our website soon.

I am doing an article / podcast for Overland Live and would welcome posts / input from others who have kept similar records for trips in Africa, Asia, Americas and RTW - it would be good to share them with people and make some sort of baseline comparison. Please feel free to post here and email the data to me.

We will soon be posting more data on weather, fuel and travel stats when I have put them in a format that makes sense.

Hope you like it

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Thanks for your efforts!

Hi Nick,

I am an engineer, so I like this kind of stuff, but I´m too lazy to record my own statistics

Therefore: many thanks for all of your efforts!
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Many thanks for your honesty! It seems to be a subject that people are often slow to share/talk about.

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Just excellent. What more can i say.
I was freaking out over the budget. Now i still am !
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Thanks Overland Birds

Get in contact if you more data - we have just done an FAQs page and uploaded waypoints. Tracks coming soon

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