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One family of two adults, a tiny human (Isla, born 11th November 2020) and a Hungarian Vizsla setting out to travel the world in a truck.
Bebe - the fastest MAN HX60 Expedition truck in the WORLD! 👀
We take Bebe to Zeljava air base on the Croatian Bosnia border to find out just how fast she is... and to have a fun race!
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Three countries in one week?! Who knew an HX60 could move that fast?!
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This week we leave Austria, head back to the Dolomites (because we just can't stay away!) and then cross in to Slovenia for a very quick passage through. Plus Otis visits the vets, there's some more Dolomites gorgeousness, Isla rides her bike in the mountains and Jess breaks something that Dave has to fix. Again. Support our channel 🙏 ... buy Jess some calamity insurance (or another Gelato!), I...
Servicing Bebe, our MAN HX 60 Expedition truck while travelling
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Crossing from Italy to Austria it was time to give Bebe a bit of TLC, so Dave and Kevin from Pumba Explores gave her a good going over. Jess got out for another mountain hike, we had a great mountain bike ride, Dave did more photography in the mountains and Isla had a HUGE milestone in her development. For those looking for training on maintaining expedition vehicles - get in touch with Ben at:...
The Dolomites: EPIC cinematic landscape photography and aerial views
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As many of you know, Dave is a professional photographer, a member of the SanDisk Extreme Team, a regular trainer for Canon in the UK and Europe and an Ambassador for Eizo and H&Y. In our Dolomites round-up ( th-cam.com/video/O8J_c-Ld820/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Ua7BcEEgS3WhuESK ) you saw that he got out for several landscape photo sessions at sunrise and sunset. Here's a collection of his images from lan...
The Dolomites? In an expedition truck? Glorious madness!
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You've asked for some feature length videos, so this week we've got a bumper episode for you! The Dolomites has been somewhere we've wanted to go for a very long time. But maybe we picked the wrong time of year to go there as most of the rest of Italy goes there in the summer too! 🤦♂️ This week though, Dave got out for several photo excursions, I got to spend some time on my mental health by g...
We took a big expedition truck to the Italian Lakes. Are we mad?!
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Just how did we get on in the Italian Lakes with a 15ton Expedition truck and did we get to have any adventures? Dave had to test his driving precision, we find a playground and pony rides for Isla, Jess eats her bodyweight in gelato (we all do if we're honest!) and Otis gets a swim and lots of stone chasing. All before we head on to the Dolomites that will be in next week's video! Stay tuned! ...
Getting an expedition overland truck and a dog from Morocco to Italy on the ferry
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Barely on to Italian soil and Dave already gets familiarised with Italian driving "etiquette" and tries to explain the concept of a queue 🤦♂️ After 60hrs on the ferry, Dave makes it to Italy and collects Jess and Isla from Genoa airport ready for our Italian leg to begin. Just how much fun is it driving a 15t exmo truck around the little Italian streets? Support our channel 🙏 ... buy Jess some...
My God! What's the MPG on that? The most common question expedition truck overlanders are asked.
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We are always being asked how much fuel Bebe, our ex-military MAN HX60 expedition truck, uses. After 3 months of driving our overlander around Morocco, across all terrains from deserts and sand dunes to rough roads, no roads and mountain passes, we have an answer for you. Given the terrain we've covered, this gives a real-world worst-case scenario for those of you considering your own big truck...
Our Moroccan Adventure in our MAN HX60 ExMo - A Photo Tour
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Since many of you have messaged asking for more of Dave's photos and more Otis, this is a treat for you! See Morocco through Dave's lens as we round up Morocco with a collection of images that serves as our family photo album of memories and gives you an insight in to where we went and what we saw - the places, the people, the sunsets... Want help support our channel? We'd be eternally grateful...
MAN HX60 expo truck cab water bottle mount idea
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Short and simple idea to make having a drink to hand while driving the MAN HX60 so much easier and more ergonomic. How did it take nearly 3 years to come up with this idea?! Thanks to our good friends Lu and Beru at @manmaxtrotts for giving us the inspiration for this. Want to buy us a drop of diesel to help support our channel? We'd be eternally grateful! buymeacoffee.com/global_traces
The final week for our MAN HX60 exmo in Morocco and Dave&Otis are flying solo. What could go wrong?!
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After Jess and Isla flew back to the UK leaving Dave in charge of Bebe and Otis, and with the task of getting himself, our expedition truck motorhome, Bebe, and Otis our Hungarian Vizsla from Africa to Europe, how do the last days of Morocco Want to buy us a drop of diesel to help support our channel? We'd be eternally grateful! buymeacoffee.com/global_traces Can Dave avoid any calamities? Will...
A tale of two cities...in our MAN HX60 Expedition camper
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A tale of two cities...in our MAN HX60 Expedition camper
When getting deep, hot, hard and sweaty in the desert is not quite the fun you imagined.
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When getting deep, hot, hard and sweaty in the desert is not quite the fun you imagined.
It doesn’t always go according to plan! Overlanding Morocco in our MAN HX60
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It doesn’t always go according to plan! Overlanding Morocco in our MAN HX60
Off-road from Tantan to...? MAN HX60 Overland family explores inland Morocco
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Off-road from Tantan to...? MAN HX60 Overland family explores inland Morocco
Who'd go to Western (Moroccan) Sahara?
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Who'd go to Western (Moroccan) Sahara?
Heading south to Dahkla - a chill out week for Global Traces
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Heading south to Dahkla - a chill out week for Global Traces
Morocco's NW coast - is it as dull as everyone says for expedition overland truck life?
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Morocco's NW coast - is it as dull as everyone says for expedition overland truck life?
Bebe, our expedition truck, rolls her wheels on to a new continent. Let the African adventures begin
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Bebe, our expedition truck, rolls her wheels on to a new continent. Let the African adventures begin
Building Bebe, our MAN HX60 overland expedition truck for worldwide family travelling adventures
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Building Bebe, our MAN HX60 overland expedition truck for worldwide family travelling adventures
Moonrise over the Gorafe Desert while our HX60 expedition truck stands silently under the stars
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Moonrise over the Gorafe Desert while our HX60 expedition truck stands silently under the stars
Interior tour! Finally you can take a look around inside our home on wheels, our MAN HX60 Bebe.
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Interior tour! Finally you can take a look around inside our home on wheels, our MAN HX60 Bebe.
Global Traces - Full-time Expedition Truck family - Week 6 on the road
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Global Traces - Full-time Expedition Truck family - Week 6 on the road
Global Traces - Week 5 - Expedition truck family overlanding in the Gorafe Desert, Spain
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Global Traces - Week 5 - Expedition truck family overlanding in the Gorafe Desert, Spain
1 month in to full-time, travelling trucklife... how are we getting on, and just what is Bebe's MPG?
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1 month in to full-time, travelling trucklife... how are we getting on, and just what is Bebe's MPG?
hello to the owner of channel, please do write the material that you used for anti- rust chassis
11 mpg though.... ouch
It’s not the best, but it’s offset by so many other positives. Pros and cons of truck life. ☯️
Fantastic scenes 👍🙂
Thanks! It’s totally worth visiting!
@globaltraces 👍🙂
Great choice of sound track, love it. When’s your next road, rock and sand adventure ?
We are back on the road! Dave is back from his trips but currently swamped in editing and book design, so we’re not doing any TH-cam right now, but we are capturing content and will be editing and releasing that once he’s done with his work edits. We’ve left Montenegro and are now in Albania, heading for Greece.
Hope you guys are all OK and haven't yet quit TH-cam. Send Otis my regards, please ❤ Your fans miss you 😇
We are all good! Just a little hiatus as Dave has been away for work for the last two months (flying around the world on a private jet taking pictures!!) but he gets back today, so normal service will resume soon! 🙌
@@globaltraces Great to hear. Stay well and safe. W
Why oh why do I keep hearing the word ‘Switchback’ , when we all know it’s a hairpin bend ! I suppose it’s for our cousins across the pond ? Love everything your doing, but ‘switchback’ Jeez lol
Ahahaha! Yes, Switchback/Hairpin you are of course right! Will rectify that next time we come to some…hairpins 🤣
9 days have turned into 3 months
Hi Jess ! Lot of greetz from Sabine & Frank, the "old-vw-abulance-team" ;-) . Are you still in Montenegro ?
Looks great, but I don't understand how to travel with such a beast. With my normal car, I can easily camp behind a bush or something, or even hide in plain sight on a parking lot. But with a truck, it seems difficult to park overnight anywhere but at a dedicated camp site?
It’s a good question, but in reality it depends on where you want to go. If you plan to spend time in and around cities it is not the right vehicle choice. But we prefer wild places and out of the way spots, and we hunt out areas and parking places where we can go. There are many resources to help find parking spots, it’s just a question of using them.
Jess needed something from the BACK while digging 🎉
WAT NAW YOU PLEY REGIA PROFESONAL CAMERA ?? ME GOD ME SISTER WET BERR
YOU PEY 45 ERO TO SE KAW :)) CONSUM GAZOLINE IN MAUT
O ME GOD YOU NIRLY CRY COZE YOU FIX LOKER ?? ARE U PUSI SISI ??? GET A LIFE MEN
I LOVE YOU GUYS GOOD ENJOY NICE CAR
Awww thanks so much! 🙏🏻
Hey love the truck may i ask i was looking and doing somrthing similar. Where did you soce the skeleton for the living quaters of your truck
Hey Jack, the living quarters box was built by Motorcraft’s Adventure Developments in England - near Doncaster. Give them a shout and they’ll get you sorted on the right path.
Simply perfect
Loving this after seeing you on catch up tv
Thanks, Paul! 🙏🏻
love it
Thanks!! 🙏🏻
Lovin' your updates!
Thank you!! 🙏🏻
Look like Maniac Truck
🤣🤣
Very cool. What was the cost from mil surplus in the UK? There are still a few of these available. Also, what type of driving licence do you need?
The prices have gone up and up. We got ours for £20k but now you’d be lucky to get one for less than £40k. It’s an 18t rigid, so Cat C license.
LOL Nobody can pass an opportunity like that by without giving it a go. The eternal child inside us all always wins. Continue to have fun and share it, please. 😇
Couldn’t agree more, we just had to do it and what a blast it was! 🙌
Hello!, at how many rpm?
Max torque kicks in at around 1800-2400rpm.
Would you mind explaining what you are doing about toll roads & vignettes in countries please? Are you avoiding the tolls & motorways as I am planning a trip to Bulgaria in a 5 ton Campervan. Austria & it's Go Box seems a nightmare. Thank you
Sure! Countries with tollbooth toll roads we take if we want to move more quickly. If not, we route around them. Slovenia had an eVignette but for trucks it’s like the Bulgaria one I think where you need to get a box in the cab. Since we were only in Slovenia for a couple of days we skipped it and routed around the toll roads - Sygic has an option to avoid toll roads in routing. It’s really case by case - we don’t want to drive toll roads as they’re mostly boring, so if we can avoid them we will. But if we’re aiming for a specific point and can use a toll road easily, then maybe we will. It’s ironic that the toll boxes are meant to be easier, and if you live there, they are. But if you’re passing through it’s a bit of a pain compared to a tollbooth on the road! 🤷♂️
@@globaltraces Thank you very much for the info👍
It's funny but I had one of those locks go bad and after a look on TH-cam I learned that you can just jam a large screw driver in there and turn the lock such that you can then push the button to open the compartment. Just saying for next time.
I’ve heard of this screwdriver trick with these locks, but with half the key in there I didn’t think it would work. And besides, having an excuse to get the power tools out is always welcome!! 🤣🤣🙌
Countries do themselves no favours making it difficult at times for campers. Every camper is adding to the economy of the area.
It’s a very good point. Unfortunately there are some bad apples in the cart who dump black waste, leave rubbish everywhere and seem to actively avoid trying to put anything in to the local economy and they give everyone else a bad name. The flip side is that some people just don’t like campers - they’ve chosen, or have been lucky enough, to live in a beautiful area and they don’t want it crawling with tourists making it hard for them to go about their daily lives. It’s a very tough balancing act. In Slovenia’s defence - they do have commune-provided camper parking spaces in some areas to help bring campers to the area. Kranj was one of two such places we stopped in as we went through.
WHAATT?! You just flew the drone THROUGH the camper window and out the door?!! NICE. Great drone work!! Oh no. Drill sounds like a plan. Jim says it is a lot of work to do, and takes a lot of patience, so well done! As our friends say "this life of full time travel is fixing things in beautiful places" 😊😊 - Jim & Michelle
Yeah, Dave has been flying a DJI Avata 2 FPV for a little bit now and he’s getting better and better with it, but in his words “so much more learning to do!” Makes a change to the more common drone scenic shots that he shoots on the Mini 3 Pro. “Fixing things in beautiful places” 🤣 I think we’ll be re-using that line somewhere down the road 🙌🙌🤣
Good job for uour journey, im excited to use mine next year 🎉
We look forward to seeing your journey when you get going! 🙌
To be fair Dave, I’d say that was a pretty naff key to break in such a manner. Well done though. A bit of lube strayed whilst drilling might have sped up the operation. As to the “hair mouse” I’m sure you contributed to it too as you ain’t no Duncan Goodhew. So, I’m calling “unfair” on that Calamity Jess accusation!!!
🤣🤣🤣 not Duncan Goodhew… genius!!
I am looking forward to this adventure....don't forget the geek out bit on the £££££
Love the new intro 😇 That drone fly-through! Just amazing. I'm running out of superlatives to compliment your videos. Keys are not made as they used to be 🤣
🙏🏻🙏🏻 Keys are definitely not like what they were in the “good old days” that’s for sure!
this is illegal in slovenia! only camping camper
Which is why in Slovenia we only parked in actual commune provided camper parking places rather than wild camping. And is also why we moved through Slovenia quickly.
Let this lovely family enjoy travelling. I park everywhere in slovenia and never had issues. Only Kevin, like you, ruins our adventures 🎉😂
Thuglife Jess had us laughing 😂😂😂 .. love the isla cam footage on her big girl bike, so cute 😍 and lovingggg the FPV drone shots 👏👏👏
Dave is slowly getting the hang of FPV and it’s such a cool perspective. And Isla is loving her bike 🥰
Absolutely loving watching your weekly videos!! Those views look insane, we're adding those Austrian mountains to our must visit! Can't wait for more ❤
You totally have to go to those Austrian mountains!
I have joked to my girlfriend while underway with our truck that I feel like the mechanic on an ocean cruise ship. 'A light is out in bedroom 284!' 'On my way'. 'Waterfiler in kitchen probably needs a clean!' 'On my way' 'The window squeaks while opening at a specific angle and speed' 'Grrrr...."
🤣🤣 It’s so that! It’s just a never ending list of things that need attention.
Fantastic video
Thanks, Nigel! :-) 🙏🏻
Amazing pictures in the dessert.
Thanks, David!
I’m really enjoying following your journey. Great balance of getting out and about, truck tech, and my favourite the photography. It’s great to have a woman’s perspective on truck / over landing life as I’m trying to convince my wife that this is worth it. Safe travels. 😊
This is good to hear! There’s so much about “life on the road” and trying to figure out what everyone wants to know is hard, so mixing in bits of different things hopefully keeps it interesting. 🤞🙏🏻
I really WANT some apple strudel now!!
Us too actually!!
Definitely packed an awful Lot into a week?
It was a very busy week, but all the better for it!
I have been following you since the start, i bought a man hx 60 as well. It would have been great if you did a full video in depth about the service. ❤
Noted! We will do a full in-depth service at some point, but since we went through it this time quite quickly with limited time we couldn’t do the whole thing in detail.
Wonder if the number of subscribers would increase if Jess opened the episode saying "We are Otis, Islay, Jess and the other bloke" 😂 Nah, just kidding. Lovely stuff again, guys. Stunning locations and fantastic photography. How the heck you are not yet on 50K subs is beyond me. Again, thanks for the video and look forward to more Otis next week 😇
It’s a good suggestion… maybe we’ll give it a go 🤣 More Otis next week… 🤞🤞
🎉❤
Happy Birthday!
Thanks, Istvan!
Oi Oi!
OiOi!!
Stunning drone work, photos and video. Loved the "nearly tiny world" 360 shot of coming around the curve. The strudel looked delicious! I can't believe you biked it, then went back up again in the rig! The views are definitely worth it though. Beautiful time lapse of the clouds. How fun to meet up with friends! This is really an incredible location to photograph and hike. New subscribers! - Michelle
The strudel was delicious indeed… and we may have eaten more than one helping in the days we were there!! 🤣 Glad you enjoyed the content and Dave’s pictures and videos. Thanks for subscribing too 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@globaltraces You are welcome! 😃😃
On the Dakar i'v seen them going over them on an angle.
Yeah they do… but normally about three times faster than Bebe’s top speed too 🤣🤣
BTW, the sound track is expertly matched. Stunning shots 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks, Wagner! We spent a while deliberating over music for this so glad someone picked up on it!
Absolutely stunning ❤
Thanks, Sue 🙏🏻
just stunning. the local tourist board should buy this to promote the region
Thank you! Maybe we should drop them a line!