The Journey so far.....


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About to leave!

G - Reporting

Just sitting in YVR, painless check-in and no excess baggage charges, which is a amazing as we can barely lift them! off to Seattle in an hour and then 4 hours in Seattle:-( then 11 1/2 hours one ocean and a date-line latter SEOUL!!!!

Surreal!

G Reporting

Last night in Canada for a while right now it all feels somewhat surreal!, oh well I guess 22+ hours of travel will bring be down to earth in Seoul with a bump ;-)

Another Day 1!

SPOT location: still in its bag. But we are at Vanc airport!
B - reporting

The trip has officially begun! We are now homeless, till we meet up with Swiss Tony. Have to get up at early o'clock tomorrow for the crazy long flight to Seoul. What with the date line and all, I think it takes about a week to get there.

Fabulous prize if you can guess which of us did no trial pack, so had to purchase a new bag on the way to the airport hotel...

DAY 1: June 2, 2011

Border Crossings: 2
SPOT Location: SPOT is still in box on the living room floor

B - Reporting

Today we drove Swiss Tony, our Toyota 4Runner and home for the forseeable future, down to the docks in Seattle to be shipped to Busan, South Korea. It is packed with camping gear, tools, spare parts...and will never look this tidy again. What have we forgotten? This could be a quiz.

After a brief hiatus at the border when some random dude's medical treatment set off the radiation detector (flashing lights! drama!! guards running around!!!) we drove south.

We were passed by a car with a 'keep your eyes on the road' sticker, which careered across 2 lanes narrowly missing a truck as its driver was on the phone.

Made it to the SEAPAC warehouse with only a slight amount of getting lost and met Bob the Shipping Agent, handed over keys, signed things and left Swiss Tony to be crated up and shipped.

Bob the Ship took us to the downtown Seattle, where after a couple of beers and a random brass band sighting we caught the train back to Vancouver. Our stress levels fell proportionately to the number of beers consumed. And that's science!