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Lists, lists and more lists

The commitment is made, we will be leaving mid-June, i.e. 15 to 18 of June 2014. Plenty to do before departure as you can imagine.

Map & lists
Map & lists

Let’s have a look:

A personal list for Stefani with things such as:
– collect new passport
– visas: less than expected as in the last 4 months things have changed in the ‘stans’ and some are becoming more friendly towards foreigners
– dentist
– prescription sun glasses
– selling surplus on eBay

A personal list for Saeed with things such as:
– microlight flight (birthday present to be collected;))
– sell the Mercedes
– become acquainted with his new toy: Canon 70D and accessories

A list for both of us:
– first aid course
– 4×4 course
– vaccinations
– go through our books & clothes and get rid of as much as we can
– organise storage space for our ‘stuff’

Car journey ready list with a.o.:
– roof rack needed
– car check up/service
– new airco unit
– sound system (to overcome all the rattling and noise;) during the journey)
– interior redesign and making of this

These lists seem to us endless for the time being. We have started to make appointments and very, very slowly are we ticking things of for completion.

Once upon a time…

…we watched the movie “The Bucket List” (2007) in which two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
A few days later, I asked Saeed what would be Nr. 1 on his bucket list and the idea of travelling by car to ‘the other side of the world’ was born as this had been a dream of him for a very long time.
In 2006, I had walked the Camino in Spain (912 km pilgrim’s walk over seven weeks) and in 2008/2009 I had sailed across the South Atlantic Ocean on the RV Heraclitus, a two month ocean voyage with 13 companions on a 25m ferro-cement, Chinese junk, so why not a journey by car ‘to the other side of the world’?

From that day on, mid-2012 Continue reading Once upon a time…