Start is always the hardest part, but you can always make it easier thanks to our tips.
Never start from buying an off-road car! Nor should you change your existing car into ready-for-apocalypse monster!
The truth is off-road is both money and time consuming hobby. If you are new to this we strongly recommend renting one of our cars(or if you wish to test out your own vehicle) and try it out on our trip to Romania. One of the cheapest and easiest to drive through options on our price list.
I already have a car and I want to experience an adventure in it. How can I prepare for the trip?
Tires are an absolute minimum when it comes to preparing your car for an off-road trip. Good tires is what make a difference between climbing a hill and waiting for help due to perforated tire.
For starters we strongly recommend All-Terrain tires (AT) very reliable choice for both semi-difficult tracks and traveling on roads.
Many newcomers commit to hard to prepare and overlook this obvious nessesity thus, their “super-pumped” overloaded car hasn’t got good enough tires to carry its own weight in heavier terrain.
You can easily drive through our simplier, focused on beautyful views tracks with just proper tires.
So, if that covers the car, what about people? How can I prepare myself for the trip?
When it comes to paper work, we’ll handle every document you need handled to safely cross the border of the country the event takes place. When it comes to quality of life, we recommend:
- A tent. We mostly try to keep ourselves in the wilds, out of hotels and cities. Most of our trips have at most two hotel nights (with the exception of siberian tracks). We taste the luxury of civilisation at designated campsites far more often though.
- A sleeping bag and a matress. Choose the one you feel comfortable in, you’re going to sleep in it for a vast majority of your experience with us. The biggest issue are the temperatures, most of our journeys are in temperate climate and the lowest temperature we do sleep in tents is roughly -5 °C at the Nordkapp, normally the coldest nights in central Europe have about 10 °C.
- Food and clothes. Take your favourite local snacks that you woudn’t buy in any other country or you know you’d have problem buying them in a city you don’t know. That’s it. Seriously, we don’t cut ourselves off from civilisation entirely and every country we visit will have a large supermarket every 3 days so there is absolutely no need for hoarding food. When it comes to clothes having them for at least 8-9 days should be enough to travel between places where you could wash them and also have time to dry them off.
- Gasoline. There is no need for hoarding gasoline, full tank and optionally a gasoline canister will be enough to drive between gas stations. Even in the darkest of times your companions, other participants will gladly borrow you some of their fuel when things get grim.
The things listed above are bare essencials but it’s hard to recommend more than that for starters. You will have to survive your first trip and note what you needed most, what things could improve your quality of life if you could just take them with you, or on the other hand, what nuisance I could just left at home? Answering these questions on your first trip is the key to selfimprovement and have even more fun on your next trip!