Samenvatting
I do hope you have enjoyed my story and to close, here is a list of the 60 countries we transited with our fleet of trucks during all the years:
Holland, England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Monaco, Spain, Portugal, Germany, German Democratic Republic (D.D.R.), Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Soviet-Union, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi-arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Libya, and Tunisia.
The 34 countries I visited with my wife Martha, either on business or on holiday are :
Iran, Pakistan, Saudi-Arabia, Holland, Belgium, France, Monaco, Spain, Andorra, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, U.S.A., Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Domenican Republic, Tunisia, South Africa, Swaziland, Israel,
Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and China during all the years.
To top it all off, I have fulfilled a long life ambition in 2015 by taking a plane to Australia and made a trip in a “Road-Train” truck, from Darwin in the north, via Alice Springs, to Sydney in the south about 4200 kilometers... Followed in 2018 by a flight to Canada, and made a trip in “Big Trucks” from Toronto, via Winnipeg, through the Rocky Mountains to Vancouver, ca. 3000 miles. Have I had enough? I still don’t have the answer to that question.
The photos on the cover depict a timeline of the vehicles that I, my father, and my sons companies drove. From 1946 through the present time, a period of almost 75 years and the roadmap illustrate the vast time zones we covered.