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Just Popping Out Adventures.

Hi guys and girls,

Well, we are one week away from selling years of crap that we have found ourselves accumulating and selling that piece of ground with bricks neatly piled on top of each other the government like to call property.

Having been a good little boy for 53 years and buying into the whole " you must buy your own place, work five days a week minimum to pay all the bills and taxes....keep you in that mode to ensure the country can function....then hand all the money back from the sale of your house when they wheel you into a care home" Hmmmm we thought, it could be fun...after all we quite like mince.

Then we had a second thought ( jeez, I'm so glad I went to school that day when we studied geography) lets see what's going on elsewhere!

I would love to now tell you all how much we have...

1) planned our route
2) got our visas
3) got our carnet from the Gestapo...I mean Rac.
4) learnt several languages.
5) read up on how to reduce our carbon footprint.
6) contacted King Carlos of Dakar for driving lessons.
7) joined Prince Harry in a freezer to acclimatise.
8) eat various insects and sheep testicles.

Truth is we have done bugger all other then prep our Toyota Surf 3ltr with rocket launchers and a big fridge for all the ...

Alright, no rocket launchers, but definatly the fridge... No doubt the other stuff will be sorted in time ( may give the Prince Harry thing a miss ) its just that we have given ourselves a time limit of 2 years...or 3....or 4... or....oh, I don't know, it will be awhile.

We may get fed up after 2 weeks, after all that's pretty much all we usually get! Oh my god, if we can make it past 2 weeks and not look at each other asking " what next?" we will be ok I guess.

We have been asked if we will be having a blog.... My first thought were no... Reason being that I'm not sure my view of things in general is quite the norm.

I remember reading a blog by a guy called Harry ( no, not the one in the freezer ) Across then up. It had to be one of the funniest blogs I've ever read and begged to be made into a book.

Now, this guy was highly educated and cleverly funny. His acerbic style was great and although I lack his education, I share his views.

So, I'm wondering who would want to hear the rantings of a 53 year old other than my kids and parents. We have just returned from being in Florida for a month which was 29 days too long...if I had to listen to another stranger tell me how much they sold their company for, how much they now earn, how much their house is worth and what Ferrari they own I swear I would have vomited all over them for the fun of it... I could fill two A4 pages on my experiences out there which I find strange as I sooooo want to have the part of my brain which deals with memory burnt out with a red hot poker to forget it....

This got me thinking...being quite attached to what little brain I have left after years of banging my head against the wall in frustration or simply enjoying all the things health freaks tell me is bad for me all my life I figured the odd rant via my iPad may keep me sane...but my upset others.

What the heck, people can send me hate mail or just switch off .... Good news there is going to be a blog... I guess we will add lots of other standard stuff about us..the truck and when we have an idea of what we are doing, routes etc.

Well I'm fed up tapping this screen, but will be back with other ramblings soon..

While I remember check out Gary Turk " look up" on YouTube...then send it to your kids to pee them off...

Cheers Kevin and Heike...
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