Monday, February 11, 2008

Friday February 8th, 2008

Three weeks till departure. I just bought 2 spare tires and some of the last small bits for the car. Besides installation of our safebox in the car, I feel the car is ready for take off. The storage boxes (12 in total) are filling up with carparts (3), jerrycans (2), food (1), camping gear (2) and pampers (1). Amazing how quickly it fills up. Most of our paperwork such as visas, car papers and insurances seem to have progressed nicely. We are currently only waiting for the visa for Syria and Sudan. Each having 2 passports was a good decision and has helped us to obtain the necessary.

I have now started working on preparing a medical emergency kit. Quite scary if you go through all the things that might happen and that we need to prepare for. Do I need to bring a surgery set or just a stitching set? Do I need rabies vaccines? What about adrenaline injections? How much I.V. fluids do I take? Ringers Lactate or 0.9% NaCl? Eowyn seems still at ease and probably has no idea of our departure from the beach. I wonder how she will do during all those long hours in the car. I also wonder whether there are any drugs against “the terrible two”!

 

Stanley.