Wed 14 Nov 2007
Follow-Up to: Initial Route Planning Thoughts and Problems
Posted by Paul Freeman under Planning , Route , TravelYesterday, I might have made light of the fact half of the Middle East and Africa is torn up by war, and when you’re just looking at a map and crossing of places you can’t travel it’s quiet easy to gloss over that fact, but actually it’s pretty depressing in a way and the countries that are off limits have some amazing sights that would be amazing to see.
Still, I can’t do anything about war zones, but the other problem - not been able to drive though Russia at more then 43 miles per hour, I have a solution for.
After talking about it with friends last night, the solution as I sort of mulled over in my post is to travel west. This solves loads of problems in one go - Firstly, I can fly to over the Atlantic, and buy my camper van there. As a result, I get right hand drive which is a bonus considering most of the world drives on the right, and I’ll be able to drive all the way home without having a massive ocean crossing at the end.
This also means that if I travel around the US, Central and South America for a year or so, I should be able to hit Russia with the two years driving under my belt I need to drive at full speed.
It does seem to be the wrong way to travel, but I wonder if that’s just because as a European we tend to head over land towards the East, where as from the US, people would head naturally West as for them thats towards the biggest land mass. So that’s something that I should do a little bit of research into.
