I’ve spent the past few weeks doing research on different charity organizations. We’ve wanted to raise money for a development organization that operates in the areas we travel through. We also wanted it to be small enough to feel sincere, genuine and on target, but big enough to be established, well-known and trustworthy. We also […]
Category Archives: preparations 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 […]  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 […]  During the week Brian finished working on the new headlights. The car is now almost ready to go for its first inspection! However, that turned out to not go the way we had planned, but we’ll see what happens, it might work out alright. The matter of what to do with the car during winter […] It might seem weird that we spend so much time working on the car if it was already equipped for a long trip. It sure was, but there are different reasons to why we’re doing modifications to it: – After some research we knew importing it into Sweden was the best option. (There’s really no […] |
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