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Then a flight ...
The Philippines

Overall Journey

Morocco
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Journeys: One Vision, Many Paths...

My milestones

The search for a new home was meant to be one big long trip. Simple. Well in theory anyway. But, as many of us know: life takes us through many paths. This was something I learned soon after the beginning. Then tried again. . .

Overland from Portugal to Russia - the idea- read more

Point2Point - overland from Sintra, Portugal to Shanghai, China: the start - read more

Living in Nigeria - two years, preparation for life - read more

Point2Point - Sintra, Portugal to Shanghai, China overland: the real start - read more

The Philippines Experience - The journey continues- (check out my blog to see where I am now!)

Highlights and Lowlights of four + years searching for home:

Going off the rails in Portugal at the start - Desert adventures in Morocco - The Nigerian Experience, on death's bed - Kicking off again in Portugal - Finally seeing Auschwitz/Birkenau, the salt mines - Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania - The visa runs in Turkey - The lone border crossing into Iran, the syrians, breaking down, Yazd desert - Crossing alone into Emergency Rule in Pakistan, getting kicked off the bus in the desert, arriving into Quetta during a riot, the 40 hour train trip, the last Khyber Pass trip, Wagha border - The Golden Temple, Varanesi - Arrival into Pokhara, discovering the feeling of home in Nepal, the Annapurna mountains, high altitude sickness, arriving into Kathmandu during the riots, getting stuck in the riots, Tibet / China snow storms and permit runs - The Tibetan landscape, Everest, getting caught in the riots in Lhasa, escaping Lhasa, taking the highest train in the world - Finding the Chinese Pyramids, the Great Wall, the Forbidden city, reaching my end goal in Shanghai - Well, the list will continue on until I find home. . .

 

My Overland Map

Chefchaouen, Morocco
  Men wearing jellaba in Chefchaoen
 
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