hi,

Tomorrow I will say my boss I quit my job.
I'f decided to do a trip to Africa for several months and just bought an old afrika twin to do this journey.

but, regardless of the bike, i haven't done ANY preparation, like papers and stuff...
I have 2 months still to work after i resign, so only 2 months of preparation left before I have to leave (or financial highly recommended have to leave )


when I see the preparation page here on the site, i see 6 months preparation time...


what do you think? good or a stupid thing to do?
will I be ready in 2 months with paperwork etc?


thanks for you advice or your opinion!

Do you really want to quit your job??? why not ask for an extended holiday or a year off work??
As for prep...it depends on what you intend on doing to the bike, equipment etc.
Or what paperwork you have to do, as you don't say which country you are travelling from and whether you need Carnets etc.
Are you selling a house or renting it?

Its a bit vague

But have a great time doing it, it will be all part of the adventure to come

Wayne

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ok,
some more information:

I'm 27 and renting a room in a house with 4 other people (so I can easily find someone who want to rent my room while I m away and take it back when I come back), living in Brussels, Belgium.
concerning my job, its a bit all at the same time: i want to do a trip, and i'm not so interested anymore in my current job.
My boss will never give me a year off work i'm afraid, but indeed I can always ask for it. I will not tell i quit, but i will tell that I am in a preparation of a big journey because i want to see the world. I will see if we can make an agreement or something like that, I don't really know, its my first good and serious job and the first time I quite one.
It's better to obtain some statusses here in belgium for holding all the privileges from the social security, but after all, my journey is what has the priority.
I am pretty convinced by now that i cannot stay here in belgium and keep on working without doing a big trip.


countries I really want to visit: none.
it will be the west coast of africa, or the east, doens't really matter.
My plan is to travel for 2 or 3 months, and I woud like to do some volunteering for 2 months, and then ride back.
So ride to cape town and back, will be a little bit too far, but it is not something i delete from my options.

I read some things about the visas, but I cannot figure out exactly how much it will cost average / crossing borders either. a carnet de passage i already took it in mind, but the cost itself is only 200€ or something like that (not including the deposit, but you get it back once back in Europe)

surely, in the 2 following months, I have to make up the plan, so decide wich countries etc...

so, let me know if this a foolish think, or something that might work out.


note: and if it's foolish, I'm afraid there is no way back

Work on the rough plan first as you need to decide whether or not you are going down the East or West as which ever one you decide will have different stipulations for Visa etc.
Then once you have done that spend hours searching this forum as it is a minefield of information.
Belgium to Cape Town and back in 2 to 3 months, you will be pushing some daily K's
Just doing a rough guesstimate on Google maps it was 14284Km there, going on the route it gave me, so doing the same back, averages 317Km a day over 90 days.

Av fun
Wayne

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the rough plan will depend on where travelling is the easiest.

I am spending hours in this forum, like you said, because here is really a lot of information!
problem is that I have difficulties to see the greater picture of all this information and link it together.


I think ethiopia and sudan and surrounding countries are not as easy to travel as the west-coast, so it will be west-coast I guess. however, some west-coast countries have difficulties too, like nigeria or ivory coast if I'm not confusing the topics I read.

travel time in total will be: 2 or 3 months riding, 2 months volunteer, 2 or 3 months riding= 8months more or less. at least thats the purpose.
I'm not planning to go Belgium-capetown and back in 3 months



if there is other advice, i'm glad to take it!
also, I will start alone, but will be glad to join someone from time to time, so that i don't ride alone the whole time, certainly not the more dangerous parts.

to be continued...

I was in more or less the same situation.

The day after I decided to travel for a year in Africa I quit my job. Three months later my trip started. For me three months was a lot of time, I could easily have done the preparation in two months.