Leaving the snow, moving together, healing, fixing and improving Rosinante in Georgia (March, April 2024)
In Gudauri, my ear started hurting a lot. It was super confusing and partly depressing because especially sounds like loud laughter and voices became very hurtful for me and so it got partly painful to hang around with others.So I decided to drive down to Tbilisi to have my ear checked in a clinic. It went all super good, friendly and pretty cheap (about 70€ for two diagnoses and medicine). A week later my ear was already very good again.In Tbilisi, I met Whoopie, Paul and Adrian with his dog in a parking lot and together we had a lot of fun and tried to get rid of a squeaking noise that only occurred when turning the steering wheel of Rosinante.We did not manage to locate the origin of the squeaking noise but found a part of the front wheel suspension that got loose and we fixed that.Back in Gudauri, Racki and I started to prepare our leaving of the Pappartment.After months staying on the same spot, we had to tow Thor through the mud.Back in Tbilisi, we met Whoopie at her work place and more friends and had a great time. Racki and I had decided to permanently live and travel together and now it was time to actually move together in one car, Rosinante. I was super happy and loved the idea that we’ll stay together. And I was very curious of the adventures we would experience and how our relationship would develop.We got rid of a whole lot of stuff. Especially Racki gave away so many things and clothes… It was crazy. Especially because for her most of her things are reminders of special friends and occasions.We cleaned and prepared Thor for sale and advertised him in German car markets. Whoopie’s chefs (who have a caravan rental) were very interested in buying him but one of their workers said that there was a law in Georgia that prohibits the import of cars older than ten years.Ogri our temporary oger-dog-friend.We upgraded our lifepo4 battery with an automated heating system.And improved our electricity system.Rosinante looked crazy in the process.When I brought Rosinante to a Toyota garage in Tbilisi, they found the issue that caused the squeaking noise: ball joints that I had exchanged on Cyprus. I should not have them exchanged back then but at that time I was not so familiar with all the car topics and believed more in the mechanics.And we found some bushings that needed to be exchanged. That was a pretty clear case.