Well, the blog is started

Tickets purchased.
Just over a week of work left.
Visas (nearly) done. Passport in the Uzbek Embassy. God I love their beurocracy.
Now I need to buy my gear (whatever the hell that will be).
Money should be okay, even with my slave-labour salary.

Then I will leave. For those who don't know I will be going from Istanbul to Shanghai over land, and I have from the 31st of March to the 20th of July, and a whole lot of land to cover, after which I will be chilling around China until Mid-september.

Its over 11000 kilometers. Not bad.