3 Months Along the Dream Road

27^th of October  - 3 Months on the go!!

Significant day today!!

Yes we left Scotland 3 months ago today and have lived out of our suitcases for most of that time!! I think it might be a good time to reflect a little on our journey.

We’ve travelled over 40 500kilometers.

We’ve travelled through 6 countries, including 11 states in the USA .

We’ve travelled over land by private vehicle, public bus, mini-bus, taxi, boat and train for nearly 10 000 kilometers.

We’ve been on 13 flights, travelled a distance of 30 500kilometers with the longest flight between Vancouver Canada) and Shanghai (China) and the shortest between Dalat and Danang (Vietnam).

We’ve started out with 7 checked-in bags and 6 smaller bags for hand luggage.

We left 3 bags in Canada. Our friends will take them to South Africa for us.

Our luggage consists now out of:

-       2 x 65liter+ back packs

-       2 x 18liter back packs,

-       one big 65 liter heavy duty bag,

-       a lap top and documents back pack,

-       a souvenir and food back pack

-       4 x  little children’s back packs, containing their toys, games and books.

-       One Euro-Camp bag that is the magician’s bag…everything can be pulled out of it!!!

We’ve got 19 pairs of shoes between the 6 of us!!!

We’ve got 6 rain jackets, 2 dawn jackets and 6 snow jackets with us.

We’ve got an Apple MacBook, two I-pads, two I-phones and one I-pod with us.

We’ve got 4 Bibles with us!!!

We’ve got 3 cameras with us.

We’ve got 2 sleeping bags and 2 sleeping bag liners with us.

We’ve got 2 towels, 3 sarongs, and 2 baby blankets.

Lost things/broken things:

-       one girls-cardigan lost at the Blue Lagoon

-       one Seagate wireless hard drive broken

-       one pair of boy’s glasses broken

-       two cameras broken

-       numerous hair bobbles lost and broken

-       one girls sun hat lost…but then returned to us (PTL)

-       one I-pad broken

-       two pairs of children’s walking shoes

-       one Swiss army knife

-       one Leatherman multi-purpose tool

Things acquired along the way:

-       two cameras

-       one Vietnamese rice hat

-       one tube with a Vietnamese oil painting

-       another smaller tube with an Mongolian canvas

-       4 pairs of flip flops and sandals

-       2 pairs of children’s walking shoes

-       4 tailor made dresses and one tailor made smart-shirt

Our most loved travel accessories include:

-       Elastic washing line

-       Swiss army knife (Marianne and Malcolm blessed us with a new one)

-       Coffee press coffee maker

-       Sarongs

-       Child size ear phones

-       Packing cubes

-       Hair brush

-       Nail clipper

-       Ear buds

-       Lap top

-       I-phone

-       Sporks, plastic cups and plates

-       Zip-lock plastic bags

-       Head torch

-       Free wifi

-       Hard drive (We’ve replaced this after the first one died)

-       Baby wipes

Ahead of us lie 5 more countries to be explored. Nina’s birthday. Less than two months travelling. Ankor Watt, Everest and the Himalaya’s, Taj Mahal, Lotus Temple, Elephant rides and the Burj Khalifa, long bus and overnight train journeys…. People to meet and cultures to be explored!

So loads more blogging will be coming your way!!

Enjoy the ride….