G’day!

We’re Jolie and Mark and welcome to our Patreon community page!

If you’re here, no doubt you’ve seen our Youtube videos and are thinking of jumping on board and helping out with the videos.

At the moment, the Troopy’s stored safely in the Caucasus, and we’re at home waiting out COVID and Australia’s international borders to open so we can get back on the road.

Previously while on the road, we used Patreon to assist in covering the cost of making the videos. This included music subscriptions, internet, equipment, lodging, etc. As we wait now we’re catching up on the story and working through the backlog of footage. As a result of our mishap in the Middle East we incurred a significant debt, damage to the Troopy, as well as lost equipment. We’re using Patreon now to assist in the rebuild, recommencement of the trip as soon as possible, in addition to all the other associated costs ie music, equipment etc.

Prior to leaving we both worked in the construction industry, Jolie as a Building Designer, and Mark in Construction Management. Shooting and making videos is a long way from our normal and has been a steep learning curve (as you might tell from the earlier videos!). We don’t post videos for the sake of posting videos and aim to make sure the episodes tell a story. A huge amount of work goes into making the episodes and we’re always striving to increase ours skills to try and make a quality production with an engaging story of.

We’ve travelled extensively overland previously and wanted on this trip to share the opportunities and advantages travelling like this can produce. To date we’ve driven approximately 50,000kms over 2 years across 17 countries, living as simply as possible in an effort to avoid the tourism bubble and connect with the locals.

We aim to post no more than one video per week so you could jump on board for less then the cost of a bevy!

Hope you’re enjoying the videos, thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,

Jolie and Mark