The beginning...

October  17, 2010, Basel

This advertisement we saw at the Dubai airport on Day 0 seemed to reflect our state of mind not just at that moment, but generally in life. We are born wanderers. We always escaped to worlds that were inaccessible to us through books and travel magazines, TV shows, through blogs of other travelers, through movies, the internet, through everything that could even give us a glimpse of ‘anywhere but here.’ But here it was… the ad… on the beginning of a journey that was real for once. Made real by the forces of nature, all the powers of the universe that conspired against all odds, to make the most magical dream of ours come true.

And this is the first picture of us from the trip (5-odd GBs later we would become expert posers, with smiles so happy that we still can’t believe we have them), but here we’re just the old us, before Europe happened. Nervous. Excited. Unsure. It’s an old story now. Today, 31 days later, we are different people. You’ll soon see why and how.