Welcome to The Sidetracked Sagas

We are Jen, James, Henry the Defender and BigMog the UniMog. Together we are the Sidetracked team.

In 2021 we embarked on the adventure of our lives, travelling the world with no timetable, no map and no rush. The plan is simply to experience whatever life throws at us, as remote and wild as we can find, and see what each day brings.

Henry carries us across Africa – over vast deserts, winding mountain passes, and long stretches of road where the horizon feels like the only destination that matters. He is not just a vehicle, he is our home.

As our journey grew, so did our plans. And with that came BigMog — our expedition truck built for the next chapter, carrying us beyond Africa and into the wider world.

Wherever we find ourselves, whether in Henry or BigMog, we are home. Everything we own is tucked inside or bolted to the outside. A life measured by memories, we are of no fixed abode, we are nomads.

We carry a satellite tracker which pings our location to a map once a day, tracking our route across the world.

Follow our adventures through our blog, photos and the map and see where the road takes us next.


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Quick Link to Recent Posts

Meandering Across Albania

We had just spent a fabulous few days in Theth and were loving Albania, but BigMog’s clutch/gearbox problems were now getting too serious to ignore. We were going to have to bite the bullet very…

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A Blue Eye of Wonder

Montenegro had been a series of highs and lows. The highs had been lovely – Lovcen, Cetinje and parts of the coast. But the lows had us seriously questioning the viability of full-time travel in…

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Sun, Sea and Smiles

With our mojos back on track and a little more optimism installed by the wine, we decided to try and book a boat trip on Lake Skadar after all. Not from the town we had…

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Finding Our Mojo in Montenegro

There is always a tipping point in any country when you realise that you are simply on the way out and from then on everything changes. It makes no real sense, it wouldn’t matter what…

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A Time to Pause

We had fallen completely in love with Serbia – a place which barely registers on the tourist scale and which many people believe is an aggressive country best avoided. That may be true of its…

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Photo Gallery

We had a few adventures before embarking on our nomadic lives. Have a look through our gallery from the ‘practice runs’…..