Jonathan, First Departure
Slowly, like my old Volkswagen camper, my journey to Zamora has started. After all of the preparation, planning, hard work and the many goodbyes I departed Black Mountain NC and headed West in a heavily laden van. I now find myself planning and preparing for another departure within the week. This next departure will take me from Memphis TN and into the south . Outside of repacking the van for Mexico this final week of preparation will be laden with good eating and visits with family over the Thanksgiving holiday. While I am excited in anticipation of the coming months of travel and the new friends and experiences that await me in Mexico it is a very appropriate time for reflection and thanksgiving. Among the many reasons that I have to be thankful I am glad to find my family well and to have time to visit here and thankful for my many friends that I sadly leave behind for the winter. I should also mention how glad I am that my new Westy didn’t blow up under the strain of it’s first heavy use.
Happy thanksgiving everyone,
Jonathan
Posted on November 22nd, 2007 by jfpoolio
Filed under: Jonathan Poole
He Jonathan, are you bringing a bike for each of us ? Ho, that’s very sweeth…
Don’t forget when you backup…I once crunch two bikes forgetting that the bikes where there.
Anyway, thoses bikes will be very usefull cruising around in Mexico…
I always bring an old mountain bike in Mexico and whitout it, my winter will be less pleasant….
Jean B
I’ll only be bringing one to MX. It is too bad that I didn’t snap a shot from the front, you would have seen that the van was loaded top to bottom front to back… I even had the passenger seat loaded up. It might not be pretty but I am glad that I can move everything without renting a uhaul..
Happy Thanksgiving, Jonathan! You must be packed in there & doing quite a round of the Westy shuffle
Your van looks good and you listed some great reasons to be thankful. Travel safely, and know other van owners are checking in!
-Julia