Wendy Hurst

Wendy on the terrace of our room at Legends Hotel, Mauritius

Wendy grew up in Lincoln. Wendy had just started working as a physiotherapist when we met in Ipswich. We have now been married nearly forty years.

Which trips were Wendy involved with:-

Almost all apart from The Grand Tour, and the Southern Africa Safari, too many to list here.

David Hurst

David at one of the tree walks at Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, Canada.

David is our son.

He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England.

Which trips were David involved with:-

Almost all from his birth until he was a adult, and became selective as to which holidays he would join us for. Again, too many to list here.

Core team for Trans Asia 1977 Eastbound

What do I mean by Core team? It the context of this trip, it is the people we met at McDonalds, those that we left England with. Annie, Celia, Chris, Ivan and Pete. The five of us got to know each other on the trip and made it all the way to Kathmandu together, with many adventures along the way.

The picture above is (L to R) Annie, Pete, Chris, and Celia on a outcrop by a river in Yugoslavia.

The Encounter Overland Asia trip started on 28th September 1978 in Old Brompton Road with me as the leader/driver. As this was my first trip with Encounter Overland I was accompanied by Alan, an experienced and respected EO leader/driver for the first part of the expedition.

The Core team for the Trans Asia 1975 trip

Whilst originally the core team of interested travellers was much larger, it ended up on the day before departure as three people, and then on the raining dismal morning of departure, in the Woolworths car park in the centre of Hatfield Hertfordshire, it reduced again to two. So that was it, the core team was down to just Peter Dryer and Ivan Hurst, that's me.