GO ANYWHERE
JOHAN de Villie rs is what I would class as a slight overachiever. Ask me, I’ve known him for about 20 years. He has the big house on a golf course next to the cold Atlantic Ocean. From his lounge he can see ships cruise into the Cape Town Harbour with the impressive Table Mountain just behind it. His IT company has made him a penny or two and he is a boy with all the toys: jet skis, dirt bikes and mountain bikes but just like you and I, he is totally into off-roading and Land Rovers.
Being in his Land Rover in some remote beautiful part of our planet is worth more to Johan than clinching a big-bucks mega business deal. The saying adventure before dementia was coined for people like Johan. He has even written articles for offroad magazines about the art of off-roading as he knows a thing or two. Then just before Covid halted all adventurers in their tracks he was published on the Adventure Portal website after he and his partner Kim Rew, traversed Myanmar on dirt bikes. Johan came with me when I drove to the source of the Nile, saw the mountain gorillas (the ones without AK47s) in Rwanda and watched the wildebeest migration on the Mara River. The man is not afraid of an adventure or two which is why his Defender 110 double cab has more accessories and gadgets than a modern-day spaceship.
Johan’s Land Rover story began in 1997 when he spent a week undergoing intense Defender driving and recovery training in the
