So, it’s decided then. In 2014, we’re hitching from Alaska to Argentina.
By that time, it will have been five years since Will and I returned from the hitch and, while London life has been a blast, nothing competes with life on the road.
Two years, then, to plan and prepare for a 20,000-mile journey that we reckon will take us anywhere between six months and a year.
Oh, and when I say ‘us’, that’s an open invitation, with the prospect of making this a mammoth hitchhiking race (see chapters 13-15 of The Rule of Thumb for a glimpse of what that might look like), but at the moment it’s just me and the wife.
My old hitching partner Will hasn’t rejected the idea out of hand – it was our idea, after all, and he shook on it! – but he’s been rather busy lately… Yes, that’s right, he’s got himself a girlfriend.
Still, I haven’t given up on him entirely. Two years is a long time and I’ll make sure I pepper him continuously with cheap jibes about how he’ll regret it for ever, and the like.
So far, the best excuse he’s come up with is that his girlfriend is asthmatic, and that doesn’t quite cut it for me.
Anyway, for all those (non-asthmatics) who might be interested, the thought is simple: we will abide by the same rules as before (never pay for transport; never refuse and offer) and leave around Jan/Feb 2014, with the only scheduled stop being Brazil around the time of the World Cup… Sound good?
