Lets give us – travel equipment maniacs – some opportunity to talk about our choice of items for this journey. Quite detailed, though hopefully a full list of the equipment should serve as our only home for the next year and a half and give us a hand us in some harshest situations.

Over these upcoming months there will be some know and unfamiliar seasons waiting for us – temperature fluctuations from -35C to +45C; freezing and hot periods, tropics and deserts. That is why we are trying to take only the most reliable items we can afford – usually army or mountaineering made equipment. Just to mention some, I feel lucky for the opportunity to buy Snugpak sleeping bags (English army’s used) that go down to -20C in comfort for £120(!!!), though the price reflects on its weight – 2.9kg. As I know Eve is going to hate me in two weeks time we decided to take two Vango tents for the journey. Some other important items are my old Thinkpad x200 laptop and Eve’s Canon 7D, which we are planning to do most of the filming with.

It is worth saying that with some exceptions we each have almost identical collections of items in our bags. As it is sometimes said – the team is as strong as the weakest member of the team., so I feel our preparation is of similar level.

Before going through the list we should understand that while doing the preparations we see this adventure as a hike in the wild – a semi-independent journey where our foot will be in constant use and in every step a new challenge awaits. I believe, we are chained to peoples’ generosity and we can’t change that, as we can never become independent. Which is wht it’s a good idea to prepare to be as independent as possible as our inner parts constantly crave for loosing the road and going into the wild.

I have highlighted some of the items which we find as being essential, while everything else are elements of the comfort or very useful while in difficult situations. And let this stay as a remainder for us when there is a wish to put something extra in the pile.

Silently we hope that it’s it all will weight < 25kg and will not break our backs.

Even though we are trying to be practical it is still pretty hard to foresee everything and to pack the very right items, and it’s only our previous experience and other peoples’ recommendations that make things better in this case. That is why all comments and suggestions are very welcome If you have any ideas of what we should take to fight the Dragons in Romania or why I shouldn’t take my twenty bottle whiskey collection, please let us know!