Alea Iacta Est!

I decided where to start: I will ship to Halifax! Current items that are in progress:

  • Get a car insurance for the USA (easier said than done!)
  • Get quotes for shipping the car (Container or RoRo)
  • Multiple adjustments to the car.

A New Chapter in the Landy Life

After a very long drive I arrived at Huberts workshop on Friday at 3pm. I was lucky and there where no traffic jams on the road, thus there was plenty of time left to put the new interior into its place. A few things had to be adjusted to the internal roll cage but otherwise everything fit perfectly. Four hours later we were done and the Landy looked much more like a mobile home 🙂

There are still a few things missing but this is exactly how I imagined it to be!

A New Plan?

Going to Argentina in May is not such a good idea. Going to Colombia in May is a bit better, but since I want to see all of the Americas I would have to drive all the way to the south and back up again – which could be fun but also takes a lot of time. Therefore I was thinking about a new plan: I could ship to Halifax.

Pros:

  • In May, the weather is already bearable and will only get better
  • No language barrier
  • The culture is quite familiar, easy to start travelling

Cons:

  • It’s not a big change, could be boring
  • All my preparation so far was focused on starting in South America

So many options… What to do?

First Flight!

After three days of rain I could finally take off for the first flight of my newest photography equipment, a DJI Mavic Pro quadcopter. Compared to my old DJI Phantom 2 this is a quantum leap in capabilities and quality. This stuff is awesome!

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How does this work again?

Where There Is No Doctor

img_1023Today I went to ATW for a one day class dubbed “Where there is no doctor”. This was a very interesting day and I learned a lot. It has been fifteen years since I took the mandatory first aid class to get a driver license and even just refreshing the basics felt good.  But also a bit more advanced topics where covered. For example this poor little tangerine had to take my amateurish attempts to set a drip infusion, but I did well and it didn’t die ;).
There was a lot of information that I have to digest and my travel pharmaceutical list is getting longer and longer. I hope I’ll never use it!

 

A New Temporary Home

screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-20-36-57Today I found a new home! From the 16th. November on I will be living in a shared flat in Wollishofen, five walking minutes from my workplace. The room is spacious and my flat mates seem to be easy going. There’s even private parking where I can work on the car from time to time. The current room owner will be travelling latin america for a few months and will be back by May. Perfect timing!

 

I’ll post a few pictures after I moved in.

Hello World!

This is it! The first blog post!
Starting from today, I am going to regularly write what happened until the journey starts beginning of May. The current planning is the following:

  1. ✓ Planning phase, figuring out all the insurance stuff
  2. Let my employer know that I’ll quite my job
  3. Figure out shipping
  4. ✓ Figure out what to do with my apartment
  5. Prepare my Landy
  6. Book flight
  7. Pay taxes
  8. Leave 🙂