Each story has its beginning. Or not...

To Do lists are amazing creatures! No matter how many items you manage to cross out twice as many take their place! I'm witnessing this process for quite a few weeks now and it doesn't stop surprising me. Every time I am about to close one point I discover two others I haven't thought about before, even though I was sure the list is full and complete. Well, they say we never stop learning...

Only 3 months left now! There is still so much to do, that I don't even want to think about it! But a lot has already been done. I can't remember when I read a non-traveling book for the last time. Our life seems to be all about gathering information, planning the route, learning funny languages and vaccinating against everything we could think of. And just wait till you all see an update from Karossi! It's as close to a five star hotel as it can get. It will make a perfect home!

My favourite part of every travel book is the beginning. I always want to know what makes normal people leave everything behind and hit the road without much of a plan. I would love to tell you how it started for us. The only problem is, I don't really know. It seems the idea was always there. First as two dreams, than as a common plan. As far as I remember we first talked about it shortly after we met, in Monia's apartment in Krakow and we carry this idea with us through different flats and cities for nearly 5 years now. We also learnt that there is always a reason to postpone it. New position, new company, new flat, new city... And you can always save more money, prepare a bit better, get some more work experience before you quit... The list is long. But this year we decided to put it aside. It's now or never!

91 days to go!

100 days

This is the commencement of the story of KA-RO-551 (aka Karossi), Agnieszka and David on how they have decided to travel the world and what they have lived through prior, during and after their unforgettable journey through the largly unknown vasts of Eurasia. Their tracks will lead them in nine months through Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.

We will shortly start to post information about how we plan our trip, including all nasty details such as visa acquisition, budget planning, route prototyping, language and alphabet swotting, medical visits including dozens of vaccinations, endless negotiations with employers, vehicle selection, adaptation, transformation and whatever we did think of and not forget. Please do not expect to find this as a description to travel the world in a nutshell, but we try to contribute to the inspiration of the interested or infect the vulnerable and to assure entertainment of the settled-down or well-rooted, accompaning and sharing with us the ups and downs that we will face during our nine months of travel which will start today in 100 days.