One step closer
Feb
18
2014
We’re making progress.
We’re making progress.
It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to a trusted friend—Our 1994 Hilux Surf.
We have 97 days left until we leave and we’ve reduced the list of renovations to do around the house to two sides of an A4 page of refill paper. I think we’ll call that a win!
Flights booked. The Kiwis will be airborne on 10 May 2014.
Three years ago, we were sitting looking over Machu Picchu. Sick of shuffling around like we were in a busy shopping mall, we had opted for hiding from the morning crowds in the quarry. We sat down and scoffed our Snickers bars we had carried with us for just such an occasion.
The following are accepted facts when booking transport in Cambodia: Two hours will mean four… or more. Descriptions like ‘VIP’ and ‘Air-con’ are unrelated to the actual trip you are booking (they are simply added to make the sign eye-catching) Booking a ‘seat’ does not guarantee and actual seat, contortionist manoeuvres may be required We were told the journey from Kampot to Saigon would be about 8 hours, we thought 12 was probably a more reasonable estimate. We thought wrong…
So what has possessed us to sell what we can and pack the rest of our lives into the back of a four wheel drive? I’m not entirely sure, but here’s how it started:
Here it is, the first sunrise of 2013.