After our freak out of the couple of dozen countries on our visa list, we’ve locked ourselves into a weekly meet up where beers are dinner and Scotty is left staring through his camera. Puzzling with each other over how to start nutting the route planning, we printed and sellotaped a few A3s worth of map covering Europe and Asia practicing some skills that will surely come in handy on the side of the road.

With the crafted map, Google searches like “Burning hole in Turkmenistan”, and 27 blue dots, we stuck-off a good list of the places we could be going. The places we were gleaming to see, and the places we’d need to stroll through, left us with some nice talking points about the almost-route we’d plotted.

Northern or Southern Europe? Across the Caspian Sea or through Iran? Squeeze ourselves through Russia for a double Visa or head through China? Yes, no, sounds easy.