Not the last post, but pretty close to it…

In London still, we’ll be leaving tomorrow at 10PM local time.

Perhaps the primary purpose of this post is to say thanks. Thanks so much for coming along for the ride. Christopher McCandless summed it up best: “Happiness is only real when shared”. You all gave us a reason to keep going, if at least to share a tiny bit of the world with you. Your kind words lifted us up when we were low. There were times when it was difficult to film, but we may not have captured it if it wasn’t for you.

Another thing I’m so thankful for is that we didn’t have any accidents. I’ll try explain. Say you live in a country town, and you go to a big city… daunting enough. You’re probably three times more likely to have an accident. You don’t know the lanes or where you’re going, the traffic is much faster, the pedestrians dart across the road. Combine that with been on the other side of the road, MAD drivers, with laws you don’t know about… for 90+ days. There was the ever-present threat of an incident.
Making it worse is the fact we’ve had no comprehensive insurance since we’ve left home. In Russia, Mongolia & Ukraine we had Compulsory Third Party insurance, but no where else as far as we’ve known. At all times we were very careful and perhaps it paid off.

So, anyway, I’m glad that risk is over with. Sure we could have an accident at home, but you can bet it’s less likely, we’d be insured and we speak the language.

Responses to comments:
Don’t be sad people at a blog ending. Eventually I hope to compose all our video into an interesting story, something you might watch even if it didn’t have us in it. Done with music and decent narration, it could be interesting.
Kerry – thanks for all that. We did go to the museum and see the Rosetta stone copy. Part of me thought that you had touched it before us. Kind of a through-time connection.

Checking my email a few minutes ago, a reminder came up ’GT – Leave, 14 weeks overdue.’
Wow. 14 weeks ago I was at work! 14 weeks is NOT a very long time, yet the things we’ve seen blow our minds. I think you guys appreciate what we’ve done more than we do. As I scroll through a few months of photos and videos, I see an immense distance. Every day different. Every day with its own challenges. I had zero appreciation of the scale of this adventure. We would not have seen a single precent of the world, yet it is there for you to see. We’ve proved it’s possible, so the question I pose to you is: 

Where will YOUR next adventure in life take you?

Big or small, we want to hear them. And if you have excuses, make sure you check they are valid. The best way to check, is to see if anyone else in the world has had the same excuse and done it anyway. You can bet there’s been not one or two, but MILLLIONS of people with much greater hurdles to overcome than you. Put one foot in front of the other and the rest is history.