Sam Rutherford and Beatrice De Smet set up Prepare2go mid-way through 2000. They saw that there was a need for a service catering to the rally/expedition market - thus was born Prepare2go.


Sam was an officer in the British army, flying helicopters, for over 8 years. During this time, his work took him to Latin America, Asia and Northern Ireland. Sam left the army in 1998, to organise and lead
the London to Sydney Overland Expedition (www.lsoexped.com).
Now with personal experience of over 70 countries worldwide,
Sam has been contracted as an expedition and travel consultant by independants and commercial/governmental organisations.
Also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society he is the author of their "Guide to Independent Overland Travel" and is chairman of their Vehicle-based Expeditions Panel. Since early 2000, Sam has led the logistics side of Prepare2go.

Beatrice had been a lawyer in an international firm in Brussels for 4 consecutive years, when she realised in 1998 that her dreams lay elsewhere. She backpacked for a year and a half extensively through Africa and Asia and worked in Safari camps in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Together with Sam she has travelled extensively with 4x4's in the Lybian and Algerian Sahara desert, but also experienced the magnificence of discovering the Jordanian Wadi Rum desert on a horseback. Like Sam, she is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and leads the "other" logistic side of Prepare2go.

Sam and Beatrice work with a team of independants, mostly from a military background. They each have almost unparallelled expertise in their specific areas and are chosen for each particular mission.