Expedition Portal

Overlanding Inspiration :: 🗺️

Before the Defender, our travels already revolved around cars. They were regular vehicles, but we often treated them like 4x4s. For years, our vacations were built around road trips, always looking for dirt roads, remote places, and that feeling of going a little beyond the obvious route. Our story started taking shape in 2020, during the pandemic. On one of our weekly outdoor walks, we saw a small truck parked on the street. As a joke, we started imagining what it would be like to turn something like that into a home on wheels, one that could take us around the world. A few months later, the joke had become a real obsession. We decided it was time to turn the dream into an actual plan. The first step was rethinking our careers. I am (Mai) a designer and was already working with small clients outside my full-time job. Lucas had always worked in sales and business development. Together, we realized we had the right skills to start our own agency. For the next five years, we put all our energy into building , our agency, and Noma Expedition, our goal of traveling all the way to Canada. As the business grew, we saved money and kept the bigger plan alive: to buy and transform a vehicle that could become our home, office, and expedition tool. That is how we found our Defender 130. We wanted to build a complete project, something that could support life on the road and take us on our first big adventure: a three-year journey across the Americas. In 2025, we left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Today, seven months later, we are exploring Bolivia. Along the way, we changed our routine, our needs, and our expectations. We now live on the road, work remotely, and combine the experience of our almost six-year-old agency with a life shaped by travel, content creation, photography, and off-road adventures. It has been an incredible experience to have the privilege of waking up in different places every day and being able to draw our own route on the road. Our Defender gives us geographic freedom while also offering an incredible feeling of home.