Adventurer required
 

Hi

Will be leaving UK june 2014, driving Defender 110, from London
Initial plan is to travel beaches of Portugal and Spain, Morocco and down west coast of Africa to Cape Town.
No definite time line other than being in South Africa by mid December.
Part or full trip considered.
Share fuel/food costs
Visas own responsibility
Tent camping, and occasional hotels

51 yr old male British professional

Strange first post...
:confused1:

HU Dating... Why the hell not.. hahah

34 year old broke ass bike mechanic seeks sexually liberated woman with plenty of cash.. Must laugh at my crap jokes and be into power tools..

:rofl:

what a cracking idea....
 

HU dating whoa , Ted what a cracking idea!!!
Grant, Susan this could be a whole new revenue stream:D
Live webcams, texting services etc.
Heres mine
Male biker seeks strict female to teach him the art of throttle control and pipe polishing.
Ideally you should be aged 30 – 55 and look good in a set of size 10 leathers.
The ability to cook and “mend a puncture” would be a bonus.
Doesn’t matter if you can’t cook I love Dominos and take outs!:rofl:

:whistling:.......................O-M-G..................... don't you think us mods have enough work to do without having to deal with 'THAT' sort of 'stuff' doh doh
Bad boys:tt2:

Oh crap ! After reading those three posts I aint guna bother ...............out of my league :frown:


Edit:

Just to be clear I didn't me applying I meant a fourth "offering"

I'm sorry
 

May I be the first to apologies for, maybe, getting your hopes up by posting a reply to this thread as a man, which is clearly not what you are hoping for. Best of luck with your "adventure" :innocent:

Best of luck
 

Hi Swissjosh, seriously mate the very best of luck, I hope you find what you are looking for and have a wonderful trip. Let us know how you get on.
All the best
GM

I think you'd be having a great time moderating that category though, eh ???

However, the 'Mini-meets' could suddenly turn risky as you won't know if you're meant to be bringing your best cooking gear or your best set of clean undies...

And the 'Best gadgets' threads could probably end up losing their relevance too....

:eek3:

Best cooking gear every time Ted- You just cannot beat a good meal-
and 'No' we are not going down 'that' road.
This is a clean travel site and I would hazard a guess that (almost) everyone appreciates that it is 'family friendly'.
Now can I go back to my souffle aux Girolles avec Persil? :biggrin3:

swissjosh

I seem to remember a similar thread being posted a year or so back, which had shall we say a "mixed" and sometimes "unhelpful" responses and was eventually closed by a MOD.

Lets hope the same does not happen and this remains a viable and sensible post.

It is a reasonable post to write and says exactly what is required. No different to any other "seeking travellers" post.

Just because "male" is NOT used it should not be treated any different. In hind sight it may have been an error on my part to reply, and I do apologies for that.

All posts should be treated with equality, it's time us blokes stopped getting all excited over posts like this. Everyone should feel confident to make such a post who ever they are and what ever they are looking for. Perhaps there would be more posts of this nature if less was said??

Again good luck swissjosh.

Personally I think it's just a bit tasteless, I mean what can a female travel partner do that a male one can't, if you take the obvious out of the equation?

And I wouldn't personally want to be on that journey if my reason for being there was as a concubine to a Land Rover driver :(

I suspect the arrangement will work better if you find someone
that wants to spend time with you and is of a spirit inclined to make the journey rather than
you find someone inclined to spend time with you because they want to make a trip

Now I don't know your real reason for wanting a female travel partner, and we may be judging you unfairly, but so would most self respecting women I reckon.

What I will say in all seriousness, is that from experience extended travel can be at times a test of peoples abilities to suffer each others faults and flaws if forced into proximity, don't underestimate that.

Also if you were platonic and so forth and your new partner hooked up with a dashing and suave overland biker in far flung somewhere (they can't help it, we are irresistable:innocent:) how would you feel that your only company was acting in a perfectly rational adult manner but leaving you out in the cold for company

WHERE? :eek3::euro::detective:

I've been looking in the wrong place!

Ah so you are still playing the ard to get mon petit cherie, by playing the hide n seek in le Southern hemisphere, ooh how exciting You are ze corned beef to me, and I am ze cabbage to you

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net...YbZEo_700b.jpg

:rofl:

Well, good luck to you, but I'd consider tweaking the title of your thread, which does not sound grammatically correct ("Adventurer required female"?) or very clear--is a female really "required" or just desired? If "required" then you might want to consider at least picking up at least the fuel costs...

His name 'Swiss' Josh may imply he hasn't got a 100% grasp of English and maybe thought (as a new user) that he miss-interoperated "travellers seeking travellers"

However, even if not....

GO FOR IT JOSH.....

If you don't ask, you don't get.... Fortune favours the bold.

:thumbup1:

Hmm let me think... ;)

And now corrected

Appologies, if offended the feint-hearted

That was submitted by mobile, should have read female/male

So please calm down on accusations, before you get a reply

and yes, will keep updated, as and when I depart

Thanks for the best wishes

A small but important difference, though one assumes any volunteer would be either female or male of some species?? no need to specify doh

A cynical sort might think this is a ploy, a change in tact, in the hope of luring a female into your trap whilst appearing not to have ulterior motive :rofl:

Don't worry you won't have offended anybody, there aren't many 'feint-hearted' folk around these parts (especially the females I have met who frequent this forum) Personally I'm completely ok at arguing face to face with armed strangers without taking it too personally as I'm sure most overlanders are.

Besides I think secretly we were all rooting for you anyway

Thanks for the grammatical lesson, stickeysidedown, but was purely indicating that female or male traveller would be welcome.

Would be nice to get some serious response, or at least people/travellers.....to meet on journey down Africa.

If any out there, West Africa July/ August , PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO DROP A LINE

Cheers

Josh, you didn't specify enough. 4 foot 9 inches 300lbs OK? Must have enough teeth to start her own tomato?

hahah exactly

I am female or male. Will I do? :D

Seriously best of luck fella

don't think it worked :confused1:

Beaches? Surely, the best views and roads on a bike are in the mountains?

"Beaches? Surely, the best views and roads on a bike are in the mountains?"

I can think of many ocean roads that are terrific for both riding and views. Along much of the Pacific Coast Highway in Oregon and California, the Great Ocean Road in Australia, much of New Zealand's South Island....
And these are roads with lots of curves and hills, not just great views of the ocean.

Defender 110.....so as uncomfortable as a bike

I have no doubt of what you say but you're talking about roads with either hardly any traffic or vast open landscapes. Spain in summer will be over-crowded, really hot and full of Brits wanting egg & chips - not my idea of a biking adventure. JMO

You realize he's not on a bike, right? He's in a Defender.

He's gona be :censored: it till the cows come home :blushing:LMAO!

Oh while I think of it,

What's the difference between a Defender and a Porcupine ?















The Porcupine has the pricks on the outside ;-)

Hill, curves + views ... Tasmania. Sometimes of beaches. But lots of hills, curves and views. :funmeteryes:

Hi Swiss Josh
Are you related to Swiss Toni?



Good that you've now clarified males and females are allowed, because I was reading on the news that the Indian parliament has now ratified a new law that there is a third gender of "transgender". Would you also accept such a person as a travel companion?

And let's not forget Crimea! It has a great coastal road, and accommodations look to be cheap this year.

normally when I am traveling I end up dirty from fixing stuff.... So I need a traveling site that is for us dirty folk that can't afford to pay for some one else to fix it!

I gave up my full time job in the city when our child arrived. So am doubly poor! Once from leaving a very well paid full time job and once from being hobbled by my child!!! - but the strange thing is I wouldn't change her for the world!

:helpsmilie: :blushing:

PS I am working on how to scrape together the money to go adventuring with her..... (and leave my dear wife behind) :innocent: ? For a month or so!