Tag Archives: Road trips – Over the next month, we’ll be traveling through EIGHT countries to reach France overland from Turkey. Our first stop? Bulgaria, where we visit the historical town of Plovdiv, spend time with former dancing bears, hike in the Rila Mountains on the monastery trail, and eat a lot of French fries and feta cheese!  Bruno spent two weeks driving through Iran in order to reunite with me in Turkey. Though his time was short – and primarily transit rather than travel – he managed to take a few photos of Iran that give us not lucky enough to have visited a glimpse into its culture, architecture, landscape, and people. Enjoy!  It’s impossible to visit Saudi Arabia as a tourist, so our three-day transit visa would have to suffice. A country suffused with mystery and forbidden exoticism, I was looking forward to the glimpse I would get into Saudi Arabian life. The journey., however, was filled with unexpected challenges that left us racing for the U.A.E. border.  In two-and-a-half years of traveling overland with Bruno, we’ve never driven 425km in a single day. Never been on the road for twelve hours straight. Never arrived after dark to our accommodation. And never fallen into bed quite this shattered. I’m lucky this is only my first time experiencing this kind of day, I decide. I’m pretty lucky in general, actually.  Northern Kenya’s long, car-busting Marsabit-Moyale road, which cuts through arid plains violently fought over by tribal warriors, is legendary among overlanders. It’s also the only way to drive to Ethiopia, our next destination. Read on to learn about the current road conditions and to hear our surprising conclusions on the road trip. |
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