About us

Update!

So, we are back. After an incredible 441 days on the road we are now settling down into our new lives in London. We both have jobs a very nice flat in Hammersmith and we’re even thinking about where to go on holiday this summer!

The website will slowly undergo changes from a diary into a travel site over time and a final returning home blog will get written in due course.

To read all about our journey and browse our photos use the ‘Blog’ and ‘photo’ links above or use the timeline widget just move the mouse over the grey dots to see where we were and when and click to read all about it!

Explore the full journey here or in full geeky detail here

Below is the original about us post we wrote, very exited back in Nov 2010!

Rich  and Leah.

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So, who the hell are we, what are we doing, where and why…

Rich and Leah are (now) ex-professionals from London. Between us we have clocked up over 12 years employment at Sky TV and have decided to give it all up to have a little adventure, get away from it all and come back hopefully to a booming economy, low rents and immediate employment (don’t forget we’re British so excuse our sarcasm). We’ve worked together for 2 years, lived together for 6 months, so spending 18 months together should be a breeze.

The original plan was to go to South America for around six months but then that expanded to include Central America and then that expanded to include South East Asia. So our itinerary, although not set in stone, is something along the following lines:

3 months in South East Asia:

Thailand > Laos > Vietnam > Cambodia

6 – 9 months in South America

Brazil > Uruguay > Argentina > Chile > Paraguay > Bolivia > Peru > Ecuador > Colombia > Venezuela

3 months in Central America

Panama > Costa Rica > Nicaragua > Honduras > El Salvador > Guatemala > Belize > Mexico

So why are we pouring this out into a blog?

Firstly, we found others’ travel blogs indispensable when planning our own trip and it only seems fair to give something back, if anybody ever stumbles across it. Second, it’s the modern equivalent of keeping a diary and the easiest way to keep everyone up to date on our progress. And finally, Rich is a huge geek and wants to learn WordPress development and SEO

So, if you’re still interested, you can subscribe somewhere over on the right and we’ll send you an email every time we have something new to say.

Happy reading!

Rich and Leah x

Out on the town