I'm plotting a trip - aren't I always? - and I think this one might actually happen. Man, I've not been somewhere crazy where no-one speaks English for faaar too long.
- Patagonia - Antarctica - Darling River Run - Iran - Central Asia - Kamchatka - Bali to East Timor - Ethiopia and Somaliland - Tibet and Mongolia - China - Indochina - Afghanistan, Wakhan Corridor - something in the Sahara - Chad or Niger or south Algeria
Drive from the UK to Cote D'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, perhaps hitchhike back. I've got a contact who works for an NGO there and she needs a van that can carry her ex-child-soldier kids. It's only 9000km one way.