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Day 262 – Celebrating the weekend

All together at the restaurant

All together at the restaurant

Flo and I finished our last administrative tasks today as Friday and thus the weekend was coming up. The most important information we got was that Touratech Dubai does not stock any tires in Rocinante’s size. So we either have to find tires somewhere else in Dubai or we have to make our current ones last until Turkey. We’ll keep you updated on this.

Other than that, we wrote blog entries, emails, postcards and updated trip data. Once Lina and Michael were back, the weekend celebration could begin. So we went out for dinner to a Turkish place and gorged ourselves on Fattush salad, a mixed mazza plate with the biggest bread I have ever seen, grape rolls filled with rice and some grilled meat for the guys.

In the end, we all had to roll out of the restaurant and still took some take away with us.

Day 100 – Centpostial

One hundred days ago, we left a cold and rainy Wellington, for good, at least for now. If we were a government this would be the point at which pundits would call for a first resume. So did we archive what we set out to do?   Continue reading →

Day 16 – 16 in a row

When we started our trip, and this blog back up in earnest, the expectation was that we would write maybe two to three posts a week. Without really pushing for it, we now got a post for every single day of New Zealand, each of them with at least some pictures.

The surface works anywhere, this is me writing this post

The surface works anywhere, this is me writing this post

On average, it takes about an hour every day to write this blog. The process is already sinking in as part of our routine. One of us writes the body of the post itself, so far between 150 and 550 words each. Then we copy the pictures of the day onto the external hard drive, have a quick browse and pick images matching the post. Once we have a place with internet access we copy, resize and upload. Then, Flo gives every picture a title and description and 2-3 go into the post and the rest goes into a gallery. All in all about 1 hr.

The end result has been read by a growing number of people, over 100 by now. Cool – and also mildly scary.

By now, I think we both agree that we like the setup. We keep everyone informed, there is a record for ourselves and we get some great feedback (mostly on facebook, so feel free to use the comment function some more!). So we have all intentions to keep the 1 post per day up for travel days.

very hip, the surface is right at home

very hip, the surface is right at home

Now, whether that is actually achievable in places with less than North Island level of connectivity remains to be seen, but we will try.

You may have noticed that I said travel days. Right now, we are calming down a bit, so until we leave for Melbourne on the 25th, there may actually be some gaps on slow days, or posts more about more general things like this one.

Now, we did do some things today. We failed several attempts at buying a sleeping bag, survived a bus trip across town without a modern smart phone and had a lovely lunch at Federal & Wolfe.