Family and friends, I am delighted to say we completed day 1, alive and in one piece. After a few tractor driving lessons and forest roads crash courses, we left Gosheim just after 11am 21 September.
We decided to follow the bike routes as we wanted to avoid main roads and highways at all costs. I was introduced to a rather hairy nail-biting forest path that had been washed away in the recent rains in Gosheim. It wasn’t a mere 3km into the route. Both of us were a little challenged and awake after avoiding the Donggas, ditches, sharp descend, and trees. Phew!!
Once we were on the open road and the flat spots on the tyres smoothed out, things were running smoothly at 25kmph top speed. 😉 Things were looking good until we reached Fussen near Switzerland, where I had my first encounter with a long steep downhill pass. I grew a pair of steel balls down this pass. Lesson 1 of driving a tractor. Always approach your obstacles in the right gear. There is no changing of gears once you are going up or down. Breaks can only do as much. At the end of the pass, we pulled over into a parking stop for trucks to allow the backup of cars we had caused and to calm the nerves of course 🙃
I am feeling more confident about my tractoring driving skills, but I am sure the next 1900km there will be more to learn.
We spent our first night at Waldshut -tiegen camping grounds. Our trailer was put to the test with some rainfall as we arrived and happy to report that it kept us dry and cozy for a good night’s rest.
We decided to attempt the mountains tomorrow with dry roads and less traffic over the weekend. Today, we enjoyed the sound of the rain on the sails and a little walk down the Rhein River.
Let’s see what adventures tomorrow brings and what how many kilometers our Bulldog can eat away.
Namatrip our people.
Well done, good luck and safe travels.
This sounds like an adventure waiting for you! Enjoy this journey it seems to be bringing out your super human side@!
Hi Sim and Lawrence, wow this sounds like a very hard and extra ordinary start for an extra ordinary roadtrip 😉 good news that you finally made it 😊 hope you had a good first night and all of the following on your trip will bei as good 😚
Safe travels Simica and team!
Wish I was with you. Such an awesome adventure ❤️
This is amazing! What a treat to see your smiling faces. Wishing you the most beautiful, fun tractor trek adventure! Sending so much love and thank you for allowing us to be apart of your epic journey back to Portugal! Safe travels xxx
Hi, how are you doing on your trip till now? What happend the last few days? Did you come allong well? How is your trip? How far did you come? Hope so much your doing well and enjoy. Loads of love 😚