Thursday, June 26, 2008

Car trip to Senegal, logbook ideas anyone?

In order to help the next group of people that wants to go down the same or similar route (France to Senegal) and to calculate the effective costs of the trip, I wanted to create something like a logbook. This logbook should contain :

1) the day-etappes inclusive the pro and cons of the departure and arrival points (in terms of parking/ sleeping safety and comfort, stocking and sanitaire infrastructure, managable distance to aimed deadlines of arrival, e.g. ferry or border closure)

2) place names/ marker of stops listed according to petrol, repair and food consumption

3) prices of consumed goods; e.g. petrol, diesel and bottled water the litre

4) diary of the things seen, experienced

I started creating an excel file (how do you upload these in a blog??), listing in the horizontal the countries with towns in the subheadings. Vertical are listed the genres like: documents and papers, petrol and road, equipment, personal consumption and communication with sub-themes like, eg; food, souvenirs, hotel, phonecard.. this shall allow to categorise and calculate the costs

But if you had any good suggestions on how to organise this sort of information in a managable and sensible way in a small car full of stuff... your suggestions are as usual more than welcome.

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