The Next Journey

John Cadogan called himself the car-maker's anti Christ. And has a finely tuned bull-shito-meter. That's why I wanted to interview him.

In 2023 Rob Barton became the first person ever to row unsupported from mainland Australia to mainland Africa. This is his story.

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Truth is, I don't really hate baboons. But I do dislike them. Quite a lot. And I just want them to stay away from me while I'm camping. But this run-in with them many years ago was not the first, but makes one of my best bush campfire stories. It took place in the Okavango when Gwynn and I ran Delta Camp (Tau Camp) and forms part of Torn Trousers, our bestselling memoir. ANDREW’S AWARD-WINNING MEMOIR: http://bit.ly/Torn_Trousers

I’m Andrew St Pierre White, AKA ASPW, AKA David Attenborough of 4x4. I’ve been called many things, but adventure travel filmmaker and storyteller is probably the most useful. This is my new regular podcast. It is my ‘Next Journey’. And I begin with a true story or how I came to spend a night in an overly well-lit, noisy and hot jail cell in Norway.

Two stories of when touring with people who I had never travelled with before, went horribly wrong.

Posted on Rolexstories.com homepage for several years, this it is exactly 37 years ago on the day this was recorded that I purchased my wrist watch, the one commented on by so many YouTube viewers. So I thought I should do a story about it. It is a Rolex Oyster Submariner 1680 date in stainless steel, purchased 8 January 1981. I wear it every day. August 2023.

In my 35 years as a motoring journalist, the relationship I forged with some car makers was stormy at best.