8 hours, 6 minutes…is that countdown starting to freak anyone else out?

The bike’s packed up in a box, and everything (hopefully) I’ll need for the next 3 months has been stuffed into panniers. My flight leaves for London at 8:15 tonight. I finally arrive in Tallinn, Estonia, on Monday the 30th, where I’ll meet up with Damien and the two of us will begin the trek!

This will be the farthest north I’ve ever been (St. Petersburg is on roughly the same latitude as Whitehorse), my first time visiting continental Europe (not to mention Asia), my first time on my own in a country where I don’t know the language, and easily the farthest from home I’ll probably ever be.

7 hours, 59 minutes. See what I mean?

Bah. What better goal than to “reach the ultimate shore,” as the great Mongol general Batu Khan put it? It sure beats working.

At this point I’ll quote Henry J. Tillman (whoever he is) who once said, “The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.”

-Zack

So it seems like there was a problem with the mail servers… bad configuration. And we only started receiving officialy emails from the 18th of July.

Regarding the posts while we will be away. The “plan” is to do the “typing” on a portable device (PDA) and post on the website whenever we get internet access.
So you will most likely see a few posts appearing all at once even though they may be a week or so old. Then again this is the ‘plan’. I am not sure how closely we will stick to it…

I just wanted also to thank everyone who has been voting in the past 4 days at this site.
Lots of respect and consideration for all of you.
Thanks

take care & be well

sorouche

Hello, internet!

This is mostly a test post. However, things are rapidly falling in to place as we creep closer to our respective departure dates.

For myself, I leave on the evening of Saturday, July 28th. The other notable news item is that I’ve finally got my hands on my shiny new Urbanite touring bike! Can I figure out how to upload a picture?

Hmm, looks good so far! More tinkering (and posts) are in order.

-z

It is always hard to choose…
We have been looking and getting in touch with http://www.konabiketown.com.
I know them because at work with everyone biking to work, we managed to donate 4 bikes.
So trying to get in touch and see what is going to happen.

We are not limited of course…

sorouche