After our hike from Mestia to Ushguli, Racki and Zdenko took the “main road” down from Mestia in Thor and Serpentine and I went with Rosinante down the “off-road track”.
The track was more of a construction site with a lot of gravel but the views were amazing!
We found a wonderful place to stay at a river and the next day we continued to Sveri because I wanted Serpentine to take the Via Ferrata and the awesome swing! And of course: she loved it!
After our adventure in Sveri, we had to go to Tbilisi because Serpentine’s flight got rerouted to Tbilisi. So it was time to say goodbye again but not forever. I hope she will visit me again some day soon!
Before I got Rosinante, I had been living in a huge Pössl (a big transporter transformed into a camper by a well known company).
For my world journey/ nomadic life I switched into Rosinante because I thought it’s a good idea to have a stronger, robust, medium off-road capable car which can be repaired everywhere. And it turns out that all the car travelers are pretty right: it gets very complicated to find spare parts and mechanics in a lot of countries. So I’m happy with having chosen a Toyota Hilux which got sold most over the world by one of the companies with the best service and spare part network.
But with Thor, Cindy’s camper van it was very different. For weeks he did not start. Tegeta, the biggest car service company in Georgia, did not find the issue and said that they are not familiar with Peugeot Boxers. But they made an appointment in a second garage. The guy there was too afraid to deal with an unknown car and postponed the appointment again and again.
So we asked everybody we asked Facebook groups, a whole lot of garages we found online and everybody we knew in Georgia, for help. In the meantime Zdenko had started working in a super nice hostel and the husband of the owner said he would help us. He was so lovely and helpful! One day he drove us from car garage to car garage explaining Thor’s issue to the mechanics again and again, not getting tired of it.
Together we went to Tegeta to talk again with the mechanics there. Especially one mechanic there had helped us so much and when the husband of Zdenko’s boss met him there was a big surprise: they were very good friends from the past and had not seen each other for more than ten years! They had lost contact and were now happy to be reunited again. It was awesome!
Before we left Tegeta another mechanic gifted us a wonderful, little wooden heart because we had so much trouble with Cindy’s car and they could not fix it.
Together with the two reunited friends we brought Thor to the third garage. This time with an appropriate towing truck. The guy at this third garage was optimistic that he would fix Thor.
