British Columbia road trip: the art of getting lost
(The Guardian Travel News)

This epic Canadian landscape is best enjoyed on a meandering, unplanned overland tour - in a Jeep with a bed on the roofPlus four more overland adventures in CanadaThe best road trips have few set plans. They´re about the thrill of discovery, of not knowing what comes next. Forget detailed itineraries that look like a shopping list. As Kerouac said: `There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars.` That´s my kind of road trip.This is why I was so excited to find out about overlanding, defined as self-reliant adventure travel, usually in 4x4 vehicles, where the journey is as important as the highlights visited along the way, and the emphasis is on exploration and the freedom of the back roads. It´s been big in Africa for years, but a new company, Hastings Overland, has just launched the concept in western Canada. Continue reading...