Category — Preparing for the big trip

I know it has been a while, but between the collective wrapping up and me moving out of my apartment, updating my blog was kind of low priority.

I am sitting here in the half empty living room of my apartment, spending the last night here. Tomorrow, when I hand in the keys to this apartment, I will officially be a poor bastard. I am getting rid of 95% of all the stuff I own and that feels kind of weird. This is definitely the weekend of no return. I am very happy that I found my friend Nicolas to take over the apartment, which saves me a hell of a lot of trouble!

I just came back from the local pub downstairs to say goodbye to everyone there (don’t worry, I’m nowhere near drunk ). Message in dutch:

“John: heel veel sterkte met je dochter en natuurlijk ook met je arm. Als ik het paradijs vind, laat ik het je weten en dan zorg je maar dat je langs komt! Alex: Leuk om nog even afscheid van je te kunnen nemen. Al was ik geen super vaste klant, het was altijd tof  om een biertje bij je te komen drinken!”

I’ll be going to the Wacken  festival this week, and after that I will be living with my dear parents. Only one more month before the big trip starts!

Hey all,

as you can see, I have now rented some webspace of my own and am working on making this butt-ugly thing a bit better looking. Stay tuned for a website that will eventually be good looking.

So, what else has been happening in casa de Walter for the last couple of months?

• First off, I am now hosting a couchsurfing collective. As we speak, 5 awesome nerds are working on improving the couchsurfing website right from my house. It has been a lot of fun and we’re actually sad that we’re already half-way through
• I took the day off from work yesterday for a whopping 7 hour session of cancelling subscriptions and services. I have never spoken to so many servicedesks in one day in my life before! Most of the stuff that I don’t need my parents’ autograph for (they will be my legal representatives) has been taken care of now.
• I have spent a shitload of money getting vaccinations for all kinds of contageous diseases. Only 5 more appointments and i’ll be almost completely safe from the world’s most dangerous contageous diseases.
• I have bought a new laptop, camera, rain coat, self inflatable and some other stuff that I think I will need when traveling around
• I have booked a flight from Bremen, Germany to Oslo, Norway for September 5th. It was some kind of promotion from RyanAir (European budget airline), so it actually cost me a whopping 6€ (that’s including airport taxes and everything!
• I have decided on a first location I wanna travel towards: Tromso in Northern-Norway. It is an awesome small student town located 350Km north of the arctic circle. Even though my finnish roommate thinks that is “so not northpole!”, I feel like it is pretty damn close
• My awesome roommates introduced me into the world of hitchhiking on our way back from London. Although they were a little sceptic about a big metalhead like me getting a ride _ever_, I managed to get us two of the three rides and we got home almost as fast as is possible by a car you would be driving yourself! I definitely like this form of transportation and I think I’m gonna make extensive use of it during my travels

That’s about all for now. I’ll try to increase the frequency of posting in the next two months, soyou guys can stay a little more up to date

Walter

Hello everybody! welcome to my brand new blog. I am getting started blogging as part of the preparations for my world trip that will start September 1st. I am getting more and more excited so I thought I should share that with all you guys.

So, 133 days left to go. What needs to be done?
- Get rid of all the stuff in my apartment and cancel my lease
- Quit my job
- Prepare all administrative stuff
- Prepare medical stuff (get protective injections and stuff)
- Get more and more excited!

I will try to share my experiences with you guys here from time to time, so stay tuned for updates!