Samenvatting
I do hope you have enjoyed my story and to close, here is a list of the 61 countries we transited with our fleet of trucks during all the years.
Holland, England,Scotland, Ireland, 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, Kazakhsta, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgizstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Siviet-Union, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan. Iraq, Saudi-Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Libya, and Tunesia.
The 35 countries I visited with my wife Martha, either on business or on holiday, are : Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi-Arabia, Holland, Belgium. France, Monaco, Spain, Andorra, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, U.S.A , Mexico, Cuba, Brasil, Domenican Republic, Tunesia, South Africa, Swaziland, Israel, Egypt, Marocco, Idonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and China, during all the years.
and 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 a ,,Big Truck,, from Toronto, via Winnpeg, through the Rocky Mountains, to Vancouver., ca. 3000 MIles,. Have i had enough ?..I still dont have the answer to that question.
The photographs 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 illustrates the vast time zones we covered.