The Rocky Road

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang

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Jelle Bullaert, Belgium, music, getting stuck, garden gnomes, shoelaces, bars, getting stuck again, couchsurfing, nature, people

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My latest thoughts

Nov 15th, 2009 - 6:18pm:

Hey guys. Thanks for all the support but I'm back home since a couple hours. Couldn't bare the lonliness on the road anymore. I'll post my diary here in a couple of days.

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Nov 13th, 2009 - 12:04pm:

Today is an other day.

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Nov 12th, 2009 - 10:18pm:

Getting ready for a night in the tent on bumpy terrain at Zamosc, PL.

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Archive of ‘6 day trip to England’

Beer, Big Ben and good company. What more do you want?

April 12th, 2009
This is part of: 6 day trip to England

Hi folks. I’ve been back since Sunday but didn’t had any time yet to tell you a bit more about the trip, until now.
First, there where some problems with the blog, as I expected. Posting small updates on my mobile phone didn’t work at all. Something to work on in the future.
Tuesday, 31th of March
We [...]

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Off to England. But what’s in the bag?

March 31st, 2009
This is part of: 6 day trip to England

A lot of people ask me what I put in my Backpack if go for a trip. Actually, it depends on what kind of trip I’m going. To be true, I never made a check-list before, and I always ended up forgetting the most important stuff. That is the time when I make a promise [...]

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My Bucketlist:

The Bucket List is a 2007 comedy-drama film written by Justin Zackham. The story follows two men on a road trip with a wish list of things to do before they ‘kick the bucket’.

  • Learn how to play the harmonica
  • Be conversational in seven languages
  • Write and publish a book
  • See the 7 modern wonders of the world
  • Be on the road with one of my favorite bands
  • Build and sleep in an iglo
  • Have a drink in zero gravity
  • Run a marathon
  • Make a parachute jump
  • Sail across an ocean
  • Send a message in a bottle and recieve an answer
  • Start my own hostel
  • Have a coffee with the president of the USA
  • Publish an article in National Geographic Magazine
  • Go ice swimming
  • See the Aurora Borealis
  • Sleep for a night at Ikea
  • Ride a bike for 1000km in China
  • Go dog sledding
  • Set foot in every country
  • Set foot in all fifty states of the USA
  • Attend La Tomatina in Spain
  • Go Scuba diving
  • Live in another country for a year
  • Participate in a police lineup
  • Swim across Loch Ness
  • See the sunrise at the Grand Canyon
  • ...To be continued

Countries travelled so far:

There are 195 countries in the world. Click on the flag to see posts wrote in that country. Still 180 left to cover :)

Belgium The Netherlands Germany Poland Luxembourg France Czech Republic Slovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria Greece Austria Slovenia England

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