In the Year 2014…

The thought of travelling the world together had become a fixed idea in our heads. To drive to New Zealand on wheels…But what was the most adequate vehicle for that? Car, Bus, Bully…? This we had to find out.

First we thought of caravans. Even though we found them too luxurious for us, we got a first impression of what it feels like to live on 10 square metres. But what did we really need for our plans now? And these plans involved to be off the beaten track mostly.

Checking the internet, we found heeps of wildest options. Comparing them, certain tendencies started to shape out that seemed to make sense. Since we wanted to reach New Zealand, we would have to face many off-road tracks beyond Turkey  - or even sooner. What we needed was definitely chassis clearance and four-wheel-drive.

A friend had been on the road with a VW LT 45 in South America. His experiences sounded okay, but the idea of a truck suddenly started to emerge. A truck - that´s over the top, no? In the end it turned out to be the best option for us.  Considering a lot of weight as price for our desired self-sufficiency (diesel, motorbike, water…) along with the extra space should be the most fitting for us.

We wanted to be able to move freely from the driver´s cab to the living unit – and the more we read up on it, the more we learned. Also about the dimensions of our journey to come. Repairs would be more or less constant companions, so we better kept it simple and solid. And we shouldn´t forget about security aspects – in traffic as well as in respect to burglaries.

To put it in a nutshell – we needed a truck – but which one?