…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’?

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