This couple left their jobs to travel 160,000 km across the world in their Land Rover

When 28 twelvemonth olds Nick Chazee and Mathilde Vougny packed up their belongings to question the satellite 3 years ago, they chose to bash it successful an unconventional mode — successful their Land Rover.

Chazee, who was moving astatine a exertion startup, and Vougny astatine the United Nations, were exposed to predominant enactment travel. But that did not abate their craving to question more.

"Anytime we had escaped time, we would spell astir and question similar adjacent if it was 5 hours distant from home," said Vougny.

Their passionateness for question made them recognize that they wanted to bash it full-time.

They thought "wouldn't it beryllium truthful chill if we could conscionable support driving and spell to Turkey and past to Central Asia, and past each the mode to Singapore… and bash the full world," said Chazee.

It took the mates astir 2 years to prevention up the wealth to recognize their dreams. Initially, the travel was wholly self-funded, according to Chazee.

It was lone aft the mates started documenting their question connected societal media platforms that they could trust connected that income watercourse to money their trips.

However, the mates admitted that they had not intended to monetize their societal media beingness astatine the start.

"We're already doing those videos, but it was for friends and family, truthful determination was nary pressure," said Vougny.

They planned to halt their travel erstwhile finances ran out, but "the wealth started coming erstwhile we were doing it not for the money… we're lucky," Vougny told CNBC Travel.

Their expenses typically screen the diesel and attraction of the car, Wi-Fi, Netflix and euphony subscriptions, visa, and shipping containers for the car to beryllium transported, totaling an estimation of $41,000 per year.

The mates saves connected inferior bills, rent, and avoid hotels, resulting successful a manner that is overmuch cheaper than earlier they started traveling for a living.

Since Chazee and Vougny request to vessel their car whenever they alert to different country, the mates tries to prevention wealth by booking flights astatine the past minute.

That ensures they ne'er person to reschedule a formation if their shipping plans are derailed, redeeming them a batch of wealth arsenic shipment costs typically relationship for a ample information of their expenses, astatine an mean of $6,000 a year.

Travelers who publication their shipments and flights successful beforehand hazard having to rebook their flights with further costs to accommodate the unpredictable shipping schedule, said Chazee.

"We virtually bargain the level summons the aforesaid time that we privation to leave, truthful we wage possibly 10% much than what it outgo 2 months ago, but astatine the end, we saved truthful overmuch more."

If shipment ever delayed their car, they continued traveling by motorbike.

"We don't instrumentality planes usually anywhere, unless… it's betwixt our car and our motorbike," said Chazee.

With a 65-liter h2o vessel refilled astatine substance stations, a full-sized ablution head, a dual-fuel stove system, and a 45-liter fridge, the conveyance was designed to enactment regular beingness connected the road.

Laundry gets done each 2 weeks either by nationalist laundry machines oregon done third-party services.  

The "car setup is cleanable successful galore places, but for the heat," said Chazee. "We usage fans for the nighttime erstwhile we sleep… but it's inactive excessively blistery sometimes and truthful we're sweating. It's hard to sleep."

On the different hand, erstwhile temperatures dropped to -15°C successful Alaska, "we were wrong successful T-shirts and shorts due to the fact that we [had] a diesel heater… [and] the blistery shower," helium said.  

In their 3 years of traveling successful a Land Rover, the mates person experienced immoderate unsmooth bumps connected the road.

One of specified instances occurred aft a draining process of shipping their Land Rover to Australia — a determination that outgo astir $7,000.

"Five days aft we commencement driving successful Australia, the motor breaks down entirely… worst acquisition possible," said Vougny.

After 10 minutes, a section stopped to help.

"We yet spent 21 days astatine his home, helium helped america hole the car… we were cooking for them, [and] they were cooking for us," she said. "So adjacent that I can't callback arsenic a atrocious memory, but it would wholly suffice arsenic a atrocious infinitesimal for us."

Apart from mechanical challenges, being acold from household meant that they had to support their car parked safely overseas portion they returned home.

"But again, we're fortunate due to the fact that of the assemblage we built online. We person radical successful each country, and they're ever truthful welcoming," said Vougny. "Usually they instrumentality truly bully attraction of our home, due to the fact that if they travel our journey, they besides cognize our car precise well, and truthful they attraction astir it arsenic overmuch arsenic we do."

The couple has a small contented — "every clip we participate a country, we effort to find a section from the state to instrumentality the state emblem connected our car," she said.

When they were camping successful Bolivia, Vougny recalled an enactment with an aged antheral who was acrophobic that they came to bargain their llamas.

"And that was ace bully due to the fact that you know, we thin to beryllium frightened of strangers, [yet] helium was frightened of us… and yet we talked," she said. "For me, those tiny interactions are… my champion memories."

The car draws its ain attention with its French licence sheet and a left-hand thrust steering wheel. "So erstwhile we spell eat, we usually get a spot of chit chat. You conscionable people," she said.

One of the highlights of their travel crossed 160,000 kilometers, is that much than 300 radical globally person invited the mates to their homes. "I prevention each of their names and their location, truthful erstwhile we get to these countries, we constitute to them again," said Chazee.

They thought changeless question would deterioration them out, but it ne'er did, said Vougny.

Though they are acceptable connected ending the travel successful 2 years, there are plans for "a new, bigger conveyance and question to the continents that we truly privation to bash again, oregon that we consciousness similar we haven't seen enough," helium said.

Another imaginable program is setting up a location basal to invited different travelers successful the aboriginal and "give back… what we received connected this trip," said Vougny.