On Monday on July, 6th the command from four persons, has left Kiev to Minsk. The trip purpose - as much as possible to approach way conditions to round-the-world expedition on the bicycles which beginning is planned for September, 2009. The distance to a terminal point and back makes 1500 kilometres, and it almost 1\15 a part of a way of the future road.
The route passes through Chernigov, Gomel, Bobruisk, Minsk, Brest, Lutsk, Exactly, Zhitomir to return to Kiev we want to 15th July (I doubt it - the moderator note). Current speed of movement - 150 km/day with average speed of 19 km/hour. A halt and easy eat each 20 kilometres. Before a dream necessarily minimum two rest-hours, every morning exercises on study of sinews and backbone correction. If you wish to reach, it is necessary to watch health.
Easy tents self-inflated sleeping rugs, a meal minimum quantity, warm things - all whenever possible the easiest and less volume as all these things are carried on the bicycle luggage carrier.
For processing of a photo-and video - of materials at us is Asus Deluxe U2E which in the one and a half kgs and eleven inches has Core2 Duo and 1 Gb operative memory. On a parity the weight/productivity very much approaches in a campaign.
GPS-navigator ASUS R600 and коммуникатор ASUS P552W helps to be guided with road. All devices are equipped SD-cards by Kingston, and more than it is enough of it.
To trial departure have gone:
Vladimir Gojnik - the initiator of the project, the participant of 13th Ukrainian Antarctic expedition of 2008-2009, geophysics, the newspaper photographer, tester the electronic equipment.
Sergey Shejko - the diplomaed mechanical engineer, conducted-technologist.
Anastas Protsenko - the diplomaed expert in marketing. Is able to cook food and to give the first medical aid.
Paul Voznjuk - the diplomaed analyst of computer systems, the programmer, the designer.
At the last minute the fifth participant of expedition, cook Vladimir Glebov, has dropped out of structure on family circumstances. But we hope, that to start of round-the-world expedition it will return to our group.
In the near future wait the detailed photoreport, and in flowing the moments can observe our movement in real time for a site no-avokado.net
