1550 miles= 2500 kilometers
This took us roughly 5 days. 2 days there and 2.5 days back as we had to stop several times for Jagger ( 3 hour car ride is his limit). Spent 3 nights on the road at different hotels and 6 nights in Ohio. I loaded and unloaded the car about 10 times.
We crossed 4 states.
When you drive 1550 miles/2500 kilometers in Europe you would have easily crossed three different countries, learned to say hello and ask for the toilet in three different languages.
In most of Africa, 1550 miles would have probably taken about 3-4 weeks including abandoning your vehicle and continuing by canoe, foot, motorcycle, mule etc. Or another way to look at it: 5 days of driving would have gotten you to the city limits or maybe the suburbs:). I may be exaggerating a little but it surely feels like it every time I am there. If you think traffic and roads are bad here in the U.S. you have seen nothing yet. ;)
In addition to the countless hours of driving I also spend an additional hour cleaning Jaggy's car seat due to major poop blowout and an afternoon and $50 at the car dealership where the nice mechanics took our car apart to look for my wedding bands and engagement ring which fell under the back seat underneath the carpet into the frame of the car. Thankfully there are no holes down there.
The poop blowout resulted in an additional stop in BFE at some ghetto gas station in freezing rain. 1 hour and 72 wipes later Jaggy was clean but Sebastien and I had poop on our pants shoes and jackets. Lovely.
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