Welcome to Overland Adventure New Zealand
I started as an adventure mountain biker Mountain biking on the most remote tracks in New Zealand plus carried a mountain bike in the buses I used to drive around Europe, Scandinavia. I co-drove trucks in North Africa through the different countries that I was travelling through.
Once I finished driving professionally I extended my cycling to extreme long-distance rides i.e. 2012 starting in Cairo,Egypt and cycling down to Cape Town, South Africa but unfortunately illness cut this adventure short after only 2000 km riding.
Then, cycling to work in 2017 it all changed for me because of an accidental, unplanned dismount, flying high and landing head first (ouch).
So I ended up with severe traumatic brain injury that I’ve been trying to manage for the last seven years. I have found that I cannot ride a motorcycle or a bicycle any more without extreme brain fatigue after only 10 minutes of riding.
Luckily I’m still able to drive if I have regular rest breaks every hour of driving and this is my new way of getting outdoors and trying to enjoy life.
So Overland Adventure NZ is about my trip’s and adventures around New Zealand to inspire people to get out and go camping and driving over land trips around New Zealand.
It does not matter if you do not cycle if you have a decent four-wheel-drive you should be able to drive to all but a few places that vehicles are not allowed to go and in my case I’ll be walking then.
Pete
