by Ebru | Jul 15, 2014 | SeedsonWheels |
We left Ida mountains and hit the road towards Marmariç after staying with Iraz and Eren in Çavuşlu and with İlknur and Tom in Aşağı Çavuş . After Kalkım, before arriving Edremit we had to stop at the middle of the day, at the top of the mountain, when the temperature reached 100 degrees. But we used to know something. Do not stop the engine if it is overheated. Let it work in idle. If the temperature doesn’t decrease, turn the air conditioner on. But if you have a car whose air conditioner doesn’t operate, there is nothing to do. And we wait. The temperature doesn’t fall; steam is coming out of the engine. We take risk, incurably we stop the car. We check the motor to see what’s happening. But it is hard to open the motor in our caravan. First we should fold the sheet. Then we take the bed out. We lift the isolation cover. And finally the cover of the engine… We add some cold water to cool the engine but it can’t pass to the part where the water is boiling. Why? Because if you heat the water it dilates. It will go away after evaporation but the pressure pushes cold water. I open the hot cover, as there is nothing else to do. With a cloth in my hand and taking cover for my head… Steam goes out. There, we apply cold water. If we stuck in there, we cannot call for help. Our mobile phones do not operate. After a while, we start driving. We climb the hill 20 km/h....
by Ebru | Apr 20, 2014 | SeedsonWheels |
Greetings from Seeds on Wheels! While spring is coming to the northern hemisphere of our planet and the nature is waking, we are excited about the beginning of our journey and our first blog writing. Since we met our caravan who will come along with us in our trip that we have dreamed of, we were trying to be adapted to the vehicle while arranging to leave Istanbul. While leaving the life we got used to, the first steps of beginning an indefinite and exciting new life were like the steps we took when we were infants. First we quit our jobs, commended Badem, our cat, to safe hands and then we left our home. We have spent the last days before saying goodbye to the megalopolis with our friends and trying to know our 35 years old caravan better. To examine the waste oil kit produced by ATG and marketed by Karaerler in Turkey, we drove to Ankara first. After our meeting, we have departed towards Akçay where we are going to stay for 2 weeks. During these weeks, we will be doing small changes like sunshade and closets for our home on wheels while trying to explore the vehicle to be able to solve technical problems that we can face with in our trip. We will be publishing the last events on blog whenever we can. With the hope the renewal brought by spring spread...
