My "Saharagelber" 300TD » departure http://300td.org A story of one of the legendary W123's of Mercedes on vegetable oil Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:24:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 The day before departure to Africa! http://300td.org/2006/07/24/the-day-before-departure-to-africa/ http://300td.org/2006/07/24/the-day-before-departure-to-africa/#comments Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:41:12 +0000 Jurgen http://300td.org/?p=83 Today is the last day before departure to Africa. Lots of things needed to be arranged, at the last moment, that is today, I had to arrange the international drivers license, and the international car insurance at the ANWB yet (8 minutes before closing time, oef!). The tension rises, tomorrow we will really depart, after three weeks of preparing lots and lots of things. Until the last day before departure I had to work and besides that I had to do lots of things, so I did not have to much sleep and did 13-16 hours a day of working and preparing. Not a good condition to start a big trip like this.
Especially the preparation of the all the things for the car took lots and lots of time. Particularly the lifting of the Saharagelber costed too much time, I did not have the right stuff to do it, so I’ve been busy wrestling with the shocker and the coil springs for hours and hours.

Take away the dogs, always a bit difficult.
Important stuff for the trip, eg the waterfilter, the compressor, and some tools
This needs to fit in
And it easily fits. We like to travel as light as possible.

The Saharagelber is raised pretty much and well equipped with heavy duty shockers and coil springs. Only the rear shocker weren’t available, they just don’t exist for the T-model. I hope they will last at least this trip, I am not sure what to expect, but I’ve tried to prepare as good as possible.
It looks like we’ve finished bright on time, today we had pleasant evening with our families as we will be away for a long time. Melissa is now preparing the last things, mainly food and other stuff from our (immense) todo list. I’ve just put all the camera batteries in the chargers and now I’m done and tired, I am going to sleep now…
Ready for take off.
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