Monthly Archives: August 2011 As much as the trip is in fact on our mind 24/7, there are sometimes things that will take our focus off it. My dear granddad passed away last Wednesday, just a week before he was meant to turn 98. Hence the silence on the blog, but after a few tough days I’m now back […] Having left 17th of August behind us doesn’t only mean that Brian has lived in Sweden for more than four years, but also that it is less than a year until we’re doing this trip! Here’s the timeplan for the next year. We now have a registration inspection booked for the middle of October. The […]  We had been working on the car for a good two months and everything was going great except for a few small bad surprises. Then it was time for the first big setback – the injector pump was leaking. It felt like hitting a wall. Brian’s worried look didn’t calm me down either – if […] We’re right now following the latest reports on BBC World News on tv on the situation in Libya. They’re saying Khaddafi’s regime could be over within 10 days as the rebels are closing in on Tripoli. This is great news, most importantly for the Libyan people of course, but also when it comes to our […]  Four years ago yesterday Brian landed at the Arlanda airport north of Stockholm. He came out in the arrival hall with the biggest smile on his face and I could hardly breathe because of all the butterflies. We had fought through a tear filled Romeo & Juliet situation for months and months, finished off by […]  It was a nice August afternoon yesterday, warm and sunny. At least for a couple of hours, then the sun went hiding and left us with a sense of autumn coming closer. Brian scraped all the stickers off the drawers… …and I painted […]  It’s funny how the human mind quickly adapts to thinking that something is perfectly normal, simply from spending a lot of time doing it. It’s hit me a few times how this project doesn’t strike us as very odd anymore. We’ve said the sentence “we’re driving from here to Africa” so many times now that […] |
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