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title: 'It has Begun'
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date: 2013-06-07T14:29:36+02:00
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## It has begun!
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It's Friday June 7th and about 10:30pm. I just made my way from Bruttisellen, Switzerland to the beautiful and entirely unknown village of
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Tengen, Southern Germany. In fact it's so far south that I still have 4 bars of Swisscom 3G reception, as the border is probably about 550
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meters from where I am sitting.
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I decided to start the journey today so that I can avoid the rather horrible traffic situation around Zurich (yes, also on Saturdays), and
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make good time to get to Almere, The Netherlands, by mid day when the sun is still warm and bright.
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I did my due diligence and reset the odometer - of course this is of pivotal importance during road trips. Paul and I love grabbing
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statistics to see just how many trees we have to plant in carbon offsite (yeah, like that's going to happen). With our 2010 Jeep Compass we
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guzzled gas like bosses. This time, the guzzling will be of Diesel fuel. We're hoping it doesn't bankrupt us :-)
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In the car I called Paul to ping him "It has begun!", but he was having absolutely none of it. So I'm now going to hang loose at my
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campingsite in Tengen until tomorrow morning, and then go straight to his house. I hope he picks up the phone at least tomorrow.
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**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 11:00 PM**
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