Truck the lot of you

Ever dreamed of selling up, leaving work and travelling the world? Bobby Bolton did just that - and found love along the way

- WORDS OLLIE KEW PHOTOS TOM BARNES

My knuckles have just reseated from Bobby Bolton's handshake. He's now 15 feet above me, shirtless, merrily sawing a hefty tree branch that's blocking the progress of his towering camper-truck. His fiancée, Marie, surveys from a safe distance while their two dogs, Red and Rubia, snooze in the cab. They've seen more unusual Monday mornings than today's.

Bobby's story is the one we've all toyed with after that bad day at work, that heartrending break up, that moment of 'sod this, I'm going to tell my boss to shove it, cash in the house, pool my savings, and go see the world'.

Normally, a good night's sleep smooths it over. Not Bobby. After an 11 year relationship dissolved and he spied a well travelled Land Rover Defender pulling up outside the pub in which he was drowning his sorrows, he was zapped with a life changing brainwave. “I'm going to drive to Mongolia!” He mimes pulling out a phone to check Google Maps. “No, wait - not far enough. I’m gonna drive to Australia!”

Selling off his house and share in his successful London-based construction startup, he bought an ex-HS2 works truck and fashioned a one bedroom apartment on its back, using knowhow from his truck driver father and skills from the building trade.