1963 · The mechanical soul
Chevrolet C30
Engine
Small-block V8
Body
Wood and velvet
Stages
Iceland · Spain
Emmanuelle & Christian · Valais, Switzerland
More than sixty years apart,
one single road.
One still carries the scent of warm oil from the roads of 1963. The other, born in 2024, reads the track before we do. And we, somewhere in between, take our time. Often we switch off the engine and set out on foot: a pass, a ridge, a certain light, a meal by the side of the trail.
Latest journal
01 — Travel journals
What the road has given us
By 4×4 · September 2026
Volunteers at the Little St Bernard
A mountain trail race, two remote aid stations and two nights in the rooftop tent under a full moon.
In Switzerland · By 4×4 · September 2026
The (almost) secret Grisons
Three passes, a weekend of tracks around Andeer and a high lake whose name we will keep to ourselves.
In Switzerland · By 4×4 · August 2026
Primeval Switzerland, from a rooftop tent
Lake Lucerne, Klewenalp on foot and a five-star bivouac on the Urnerboden.
By 4×4 · July 2026
Transalpine, the Jeep along the ridges
Eleven days of passes and high tracks between France and Italy, from the Salt Road to the Bonette.
On foot · May 2026
Lanzarote, the island still smouldering
Volcanoes, vines in the ash and an island without roads: four days to celebrate a retirement.
Abroad · By 4×4 · Summer 2025
Iceland 2025, the C30 and the Laugavegur
The Westfjords, Þakgil, 55 km on foot along the Laugavegur and a drive shaft broken at the end of the world.
Abroad · By 4×4 · Oct. 2024
Madagascar 2024, to the end of the south
From the highlands to the tsingy, the Avenue of the Baobabs and red samphire, all the way to the southern tip.
Abroad · On foot · Sept. 2024
La Gomera, six stages straight up
Six hotel-to-hotel stages on the steepest of the Canaries, then the Teide on Tenerife.
Abroad · June 2024
Florida and New York, from mangroves to skyscrapers
From the streets of St Augustine to the Everglades mangrove tunnels and the Keys, then three days on foot in New York.
Abroad · By 4×4 · Autumn 2023
Spain 2023, the C30 to Granada
The C30 on a roadbook: Bardenas Reales, Aragon, Andalusian tracks and the Gorafe desert, all the way to Granada.
Abroad · By 4×4 · April 2023
Namibia 2023, from Epupa to Van Zyl's Pass
Epupa, mineral Kaokoland, Van Zyl's Pass and the desert elephants.
Abroad · On foot · Sept. 2022
The Azores, four islands on foot
Four islands, 162 km on foot, crater lakes and the summit of Pico.
Abroad · By 4×4 · Summer 2021
Iceland 2021, six weeks in a Chevrolet C30
A 1963 truck on the tracks: the Faroes, Askja and Kverkfjöll, Mælifell and a volcano waking up.
Abroad · By 4×4 · July 2019
Mongolia, from the steppes to the Altai
From Ulaanbaatar to the Gobi dunes and on to the Altai: three weeks in convoy and the hospitality of Kazakh nomads.
Abroad · On foot · May 2019
Madeira, island of levadas
Levadas, waterfalls and pride of Madeira in flower, then an unplanned night in Porto.
Abroad · July 2018
Québec and the Gaspé, all the way to Percé Rock
A lake with friends, Old Québec, then the Gaspé all the way to Percé Rock.
Abroad · By 4×4 · Summer 2017
Faroes and Iceland, a summer of ice and fire
A month at the top of the world: the Faroes, then an Iceland of glaciers, geysers and the Fimmvörðuháls.
On foot
When the engine falls silent
There are journeys where the Jeep waits for us at the foot of the trail, and others where it stays at home. The finest landscapes are earned one step at a time: a steaming lava field, a cliff plunging into the Atlantic, a levada lost in the mist, an alpine pasture above our own home.
Iceland · Canary Islands · Madeira · Azores · Switzerland
Our hikes, each with its map →02 — The garage
Two eras, one road
03 — The map
Every line is a journal
Trace our routes with your finger: each line leads to its story, its faces, its landscapes.