The Journey

The Route

Two tuk-tuks. Four idiots with a plan. One goal: Circumnavigate the entire planet on three wheels.

Josh, Jasper, Ivo, and Robbie left Kenya in 2021 with no sponsor, no support vehicle, and no real evidence that a 8-horsepower single cylinder engine, the same output as a decent lawnmower could survive a month, let alone a continent. Five years later, Princess Buttercup and Wesley are still rolling, and so are we.

Where We’ve Been

The African Leg (2021–2024): Out of Kenya, then south through Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia before limping into South Africa — 23,000 kilometres of corrugated dirt roads that rearrange your spine, savannah dust storms, and border officials who’ve never seen a tuk-tuk try to leave the country before.

The Atlantic Hop: Crated, containerized, and shipped across an ocean neither vehicle was designed to cross, to go start the whole thing over again in the Americas.

South America (2025–2026): Wheels down in Uruguay, then Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. Five rather freezing months through the Andes, the Atacama and the Amazon basin tested every bolt on both machines followed by Brazil, Ecuador, and Colombia.

What We’re Documenting

This isn’t a gap year with good lighting. It’s a ground level record of life on the road lived cheap and feral. Wildlife conservation, remote wilderness, and the people who actually live next to both. We’re too slow and too low to the ground to miss anything.

Where We’re Headed

Right now we’re parked on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, wrestling container freight logistics in Cartagena to get both tuk-tuks onto a boat to Panama by late September. Central America is next, assuming customs agrees.