Waking up to the sound of more explosions, we decided to continue our quest to pick up some travellers for the Rainbow at a quieter, inner-city location. Another Starbucks car park it was then. And while we waited for the replies and responses to our Craigslist ad to sort themselves out from maybes into definites, there were a few things needed doing to Jigsaw to make her a better passenger transportation vehicle than she already was. Continue reading »
For those of you wondering about the current whereabouts and activities of the crew, here is a little update: Continue reading »
It’s the 7th of January and the crew is still split up, Andy and Vaga are waiting in Seoul for their flight to Vancouver while the rest of us are temporarily residing on a farm in Sicamous, British Columbia. Our vehicles are somewhere in the middle of the Pacific making their way over to Vancouver…yes, for the three of us here, it’s farm life with all its indoor living luxuries (and many more then you would expect!) Except that after crossing the whole of the Russian Trans-Siberian Highway, I find myself one more time on one of the world’s longest highways – the Trans-Canada Highway. Going just 10 miles down the 8000km long road to get some hay for the horses, I am thinking, that after minuscule Korea, we finally have again got a whole continent for us to cross…Looking at this highway, with the Canadian Pacific Railway attached to it – just like in Russia, alongside the 50th latitude – just like in Russia…after 12 days without the truck I want to hit the road again…
Nine years after meeting a French-Korean family on the road in Turkey and India, we finally meet again Miae, one of their crew who drove from Seoul to Paris and back again, first giving me the idea of driving to this country. Miae hasn’t changed a bit and it must have been a blast from the past for her seeing our trucks which are more or less the same type as we had all that time ago.
Many people we have met in Korea know of her series of books that she published on her return from her epic journey and this has given us the idea of writing a book ourselves. Aimed at the Korean market and depicting the completion of one long road through Russia, panoramics on every page and each of our voices reminiscing the thoughts and emotions… can we do it? Watch this space.
