This website is a collection of our travel stories. The website was created in October 2008, which coincided with our departure for our first recorded trip, beginning in Morocco. There have been many trips before this one, and many more to come after, this is just a starting point for our adventures around the world. Here is a list of trips that are included on continentaldrifters.ca.

Africa (2008):

Mud Mosque. Djenne, Mali. 2008.

Africa 2008:

October - December 2008. [includes: Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and Ghana]. 10 Weeks travelling by bus and bush taxi from Tangiers, Morocco to Accra, Ghana. Started as an organized bus trip of 15 people and ended with 5 of us living out of our backpacks, camped out along the beaches of Ghana.

Coming soon, the Continental Drifters Africa Adventures will soon be released in the form of Short Films!

Click here to visit the Africa 2008 Main page, with all of the associated media recorded and captured on our trip.

Europe (2008):

St Paul’s Cathedral. London, England. 2008. Credit: Rob Sweatman.

Europe 2008:

October and December 2008. [Includes France, Spain England, Wales and Ireland] Beginning with our 30 hours in Europe before our trip to Africa, and the Winter in the UK for the month afterwards. Rob and Stewart couch surf their way around England. Landing in London and traveling the south coast of England towards Land’s End before returning north to Bristol and traveling across Wales into Ireland. Watch the just recently completed short film, “The Journey to Land’s End”, which is now available!

Click here to visit the Europe 2008 Main page, with all of the associated media recorded and captured on our trip.

India (2006):

The Ganges River. Varanasi, India. 2006. Credit: Rob Sweatman.

India 2006:

October - December 2006. During our 6 weeks backpacking around the Indian Subcontinent, most of our time was spend crossing great distances by train. Flying into Mumbai (Bombay), we traveled south to Goa before turning around and returning North-East towards the center of the country. We saw tigers at the Khana National Park, the Taj Mahal in Agra and traveled into Punjab province before returning to Mumbai, and flying our separate ways.

Lots of uploads coming soon! There are several photography posts that have yet to be posted, as well as more video posts. So Stay tuned!

South America (2005):

Ruins of Machu Pichu. Peru. 2005.

South America 2005:

February - July 2005. [6 month trip includes Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru] 6 Month Backpacking circuit across most of South America, which included time in the highlands of Bolivia, the lowlands of the Amazon River and our journey to Ushuia, at the bottom tip of the continent.

More Photos and stories coming soon!

North America (2004 - 2008):

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. 2004.

New York City 2006 and 2008:

New York City is a place that is hard to avoid, especially when living on the west coast and having to travel on the other side of the world. It’s also a great place to visit when you have a friend who works there and a desire to have vagabonds stay on his couch.

Vancouver, British Columbia (2004 - 2008):

This is the place we call home, yet there is very little in the way of content focusing on Vancouver, which is something that we are working to change. With so much “back content” to fill in from other trips around the world, there are equal amounts from Vancouver to re-visit, and with the lead up to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, being held here in February, we’ll be catching up!!

Other North America (2004-2008):

Various trips to cities - including Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and - all over the continent. Most of Western Canada, especially British Columbia has been traveled through quite extensively.

Remote Wilderness of Northern British Columbia (2004/2005):

There will be a few sets of photography from British Columbia, taken during Rob’s time spend working for a Mining Exploration company, where he spent time way out in the untouched wilderness of Northern Canada.

Europe (2000/01):

The sun setting over Red Square in Moscow, Russia. 2001. Credit: Rob Sweatman.

England 2000 / Eastern Europe 2001:

March 2000 [10 day trip to Southern England, centering around London]

April - July 2001. [3 month trip includes Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Greece, Italy] We landed in Copenhagen and headed East through Scandinavia into Russia. We visited St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Odessa before taking a ferry across the Black Sea and traveling through Turkey, Greece and onwards to Western Europe.

Looking back at where it all began, the first trips to Europe, which fueled our travel tanks with ideas and inspirations, and began the quest to conquer the world! A recently purchased scanner will help bring these photos back to life!