Welcome to Duksjourney's, first let me confirm that after 2 years, 80,000 kilometres and 40 countries the Kat, the DuK and I are safely home. It has been the adventure of a lifetime and now we want to give something back.

To all those who have visited our site and dropped us words of encouragement we say thank you for keeping us inspired, to all those we met along the long dusty way, it was a pleasure and an honour to have met you.

To Africa a special thank you, she made us welcome, she made us laugh, she made us cry, but above all she made us live..

Well I guess you are all wondering why DuK's journey? DuK (pronounced Duck) stands for David und Katja, and is the name given to our baby Landy. A modified 1987 Landrover 110 Defender. Like most bestmade plans ours was fuelled by the better part of the third bottle of Red one evening in rainy London.

After much debate and banter about the feasibility of driving aroundAfrica, our attention turned to that of which mode of transport. Both of us being keen bikers, our initial idea was a couple of good Enduro's.However after realising the amount of equipment that we would need to carry in order to achieve our other goal of trekking in some of Africas most beautiful and remote mountain ranges, we came to the conclusion this would not be realistic. Since we wouldbe travelling some of the harshest environments, common sense dictated no choice other than a sturdy 4x4. For us there is only one 4x4 - the Landrover Defender (a real off-road vehicle, not one designed for the urban school run, like so many others - yes we do buy LRM).

So, do all our friends and family think we are crazy? Yes, is the simplest answer (there have been quite a few other comments that cannot be published). We also began to think we had lost the plot, but then we started to meet other maddened souls like us who were fed up of the nine-to-five existence. People who also still held desires of adventure and living life rather than enduring it. Thanks to so many (especially Katja's Dad, Heiner) we began to realise our dream of escaping was possible and achievable. That is where the hard work began.

Our moto in life is , "Learn as if forever, live as is tomorrow is your last". We intend to do just that. How long has it taken to get this far? It is a long and arduous exercise, not because of the logistics and distance, but simply because the World has become wrapped in so much politics and "red tape". The hardest part of an expedition of this choice is paperwork; visa, carnet de passage, vehicle insurance, personal insurance health insurance, but to name a few. There simply isn't easy access to information for such trips. But hopefully through sharing knowledge we shall, like so many did for us, make the whole process that little bit easier.

What do we leave behind? Our two little troublesome bundles of fluff "Husky & Smokey" and of course our thoughts and love with our families without who's support we could never have embarked on such a bold adventure (see Team)