My offroad overlanding dream became true in Albania

About two years ago I really started to play with the idea of an worldwide offroad overlanding journey with a 4×4. I watched a whole lot of YouTube Videos, read a lot and got really hooked. When I think about the YouTube Videos I watched, GrizzlyNbear Overland always come to my mind. I think their videos are the ones that I enjoyed and I’m still enjoying the most.

In my mind the picture of going offroad with a 4×4 vehicle in an remote area, finding a camp spot on your own and living there as long as you want got created.

And here in beautiful Albania this dream became true.

For me Albania is really different in so much terms. The people are friendliness like crazy, the roads are perfect for offroading and there are very much things that where new and different for my mind. For example: before entering my first offroad tour, I met two Guys from Schatzi Racing Albania and they gave me there phone number, stickers and a beer and said that I can call them anytime if I would have any problem in Albania.

I started a offroad tour, that I got from Pistenkuh, crossed a bridge that was missing a few parts (after I crossed it, I talked to the guy living next to it and he was ashamed of the conditions of these bridge when I took photos of it, I gifted him a bottle of German beer and he was happy), did my first little river crossing because another bridge was not fully constructed and found a super cool spot to stay two nights.

More about it in the next post.

The rescue of bugged down Rosinante!

We made it! 🥳
One of my brothers, his son and I went to Offroad Park Südheide and finally we got bogged down! 🎉

We used our shovel, the recovery pads and the winch to rescue Rosinante.

I think, I just wanted to use the winch so hard, that reducing the tyre pressure came to my mind after we made it out of the sand/ dirt. 😅

This was bloody fun and felt like playing in a big sandbox with big toys!
I love getting excited, having fun and learning something new so much… 💫

Thanks for the help to everyone and the Unimog as anchor point for the winch. 🤗

We did another round on the same spot with lower tyre pressure and after some attempts and hardening the sand we made it through.

Next time I won’t forget to put the safty damper pads on the winch rope…