It’s end with hitchhiking. I start to walk!

“You are insane” I hear voice in my head. I’m thinking about countries of Central America, about what people on south told me about them and what I know about that region, and I can’t believe that I want to do it. What? I want to walk across Central America!

That idea came with another stone into my shoe. I was is south of South America. I sat with 4 carved in wood Indians looking at moon reflected in mountain’s lake. I thought about road. What already I found on road, what gonna happen in future and generally how is passing. I thought about essence of travelling. About people who I met, about different travelers. In that lake reflected also myself, and I watched also inside me. What road gave me, and what is gonna miss inside me. That’s how I rolled up to north and my idea grown and was shaped with me.

There is several  reasons why I decided to stop hitchhiking and start to walk

• I feel that I travel too fast. I’m passing by a lot of interesting but completely not tourist places. And what is most important I’m missing a lot of people who I could meet. Sometimes when I walked in South America I saw a lot of amazing places, buildings, things, paintings on road side which fascinated and surprised me. From window of fast cars that places could looks like splashing spot. I met those places and people because I jumped out of asphalt river fulfilled of huge, metal fishes. It’s time to slow down. Walking is best speed to know world.
• I want to check if I can do it. I want to proof myself (and probably to world) that I’m not thin as I think. I always was worst in sport competition, I’m so tiny that almost don’t have shadow. Maybe I’m much more concave than convex, but I gonna prove that I can walk few hundreds/thousands kilometers in full sun, pushing my trolley fulfilled with stones.
• I’m a little bit bored with hitchhiking. I truly love! But after 15 months of searching drivers my day and road was a little bit schematic. Every day I took my tent and went on road to look for drivers. I went inside, drive some distance, went out and look once again. Scheme witch is chasing another scheme. And I want to chase dreams.
• “My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”. Forest Gump always gonna tell You a true. During last 15 months I rolled across whole South America. My biggest dream. Now it’s time for something new, for new continent and cultural circle. I need to take deep breath, cut out from what happened on south. True is that between my lover in South America and me, now is Darien Gap – 160km of jungle. But I need to make internal purification and take deep breath. That moment I name as a “Passing”.

How I prepared for Passing?

During last month, when I worked in panama’s hostel on beach, I worked with my body. Stretching, running, swimming, exercising. I tried to accustom to tropical heat. Most important thing – in Colombia I bought on street cheapest shoes. That Nike’s  with famous brand have common only characteristic sign 🙂 I wonder how many pairs of shoes I gonna destroy during my Passing…

I thought to buy that shoes. But I don’t know why I felt that this is fake 🙂

I prepared also my Chariot of Death. That is cheapest pram on which I put my backpack, water, food, some pot to prepare food, grate, which I found on garbage and whichc can help me to prepare food. Also some wood and paper. Whole I secure with construction foil. A little bit to secure it from rain, but also to make my trolley less attractive for robbers. And like horse I gonna wear horse-collar to push and pull my home to Alaska 🙂

Whole story about how I bought that car is a crazy story. My idea was “I will come to Panama, and I gonna buy here trolley”. But I didn’t knew where. Later I realize that is not so easy here. I searched all construction markets and normal one too. Also shops for moms. I searched whole Internet, I made a lot of calls and I send many messages. I even thought to steal market trolley 😀 in worst situation I could walk whole trail with backpack on my back. But I felt that my joints wouldn’t be happy because of that, and after many years they will tell me about that.

But finally I found one in basin of shops for moms. It’s trolley for jogging with kid. Jeep brand. It’s interesting if it’s so durable than US army vehicle 🙂 Have stronger construction and bigger wheels. I put out some not necessary elements, put in other stuff and also invited way to ergonomic organizing whole stuff on. But probably during road everything will change place 🙂

What plan I have to walk, and how not t die?

Plan is good because is simple. I want to make something like 30km per day. I will walk from 6 to 12 and from 16 to 19. After every 10km to make rest under palm tree and through some bad words about why I do it 😀 I want to walk in small roads far away from big cities. Usually in big cities are many strange guys, and small villages are peaceful.

I heard about some crazy travelers who made same road, but they done that in straight, simplest, and fastest way. I don’t want to do it. Still I will see everything what I wanna visit. If I want to do something I should do it properly, without excuses! So I will go across that country like a snake 🙂 With every signs on heaven and earth I should be on border with Costa Rica, which is around 600-700km from me, after one and half months.

What I’m afraid of?

On my trolley I put also one other heavy thing. Fear. I never said that I’m brave guy. I fear because of many things.

• I will walk across very tropical, hilly and malaria’s terrains where live a lot of poisoning animals
• I will walk in dry season when temperatures can be highest than 40 degrees. dehydration, overheating, burns.
• I will walk across maybe beautiful but very hill volcanos. I don’t know if I can do it with my condition.
• And what is worst I will walk across three countries which always are on UN list of most dangerous countries in whole world. Murders, robbers, and kidnapping there is usual thing.

But You know what? I WILL DO IT! Because I want to, because it’s my dream!

Damn, it’s time to do it! It’s time to hit a road! If You gonna passing through Panama look ant road sides. Maybe You will find crazy polish guy with trolley 🙂 Cross your fingers for me! It’s time to start Passing 🙂