Preparing for Departure

The first week of March was pretty hectic mostly because of the “why do today what you can do tomorrow” mentality that we both seem to have. As it so happens a lot of things were left to the last-minute, or in our case the last week.  We both worked almost every day on small things on the Defender to prepare us for departure.

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Auto Insurance – What a Fricken Drama!

Intro

This trip must be somehow very important, I mean it is important to us, but it must, in some way be important on a completely unknown level of consciousness, why else would there be so many stones set in our path that we need to navigate around?  I’m beginning to feel like the “Matrix” doesn’t want us to take this trip, perhaps this trip will free us from its grip and it’s doing everything in its power to discourage us from doing it.

Or perhaps shit happens, and in this it’s just happening and happening some more…

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Long Term Vacations – Travel Insurance

There are a whole different set of things to worry about when you are planning long term vacations. When most of the vacations taken are between 2 and 3 weeks things like travel insurance and such tend not to be considered; your insurance plan covers you while on holiday (for the most part).  Things tend to get a bit more complicated when your trip goes over the 1 month mark and continues to get more complicated when over 12 months.  Read more