Planning your route
I am in the process of planning my Big Trip for next year and one of the major factors during this stage is planning the route (obviously). The problem is that there are various problems in some of the countries we plan to enter en route to India (from UK) and I wanted a way of getting the overall picture of which countries are ok, which ones could pose some problems and which ones were absolute no-go!
So, I have created a map of all the areas of interest on plain white paper, outlining the countries borders with a black marker pen. I have then stuck plastic overhead-projector slides over this and bought some coloured pens which can be wiped off with a cloth. I have then researched each country and established whether it is politicall fine (solid green), some issues (green stripes), some serious issues (red stripes) and absolute no-go (solid red). So now I can get a good idea of which routes are based at a glance and if the staus of a country ever changes I can simply wipe the pen off and colour it appropriately.
I have put a picture of it on my website (see link below) in 'The Big Trip' section.
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My website
[This message has been edited by PaulJ (edited 03 November 2003).]
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