Vaccinations, medicines

I'm shot. Shot by several vaccinations, but at least now i cant get (theoretically) neither Diphtheria, nor Tetanus, Polio, Typhus, Hepatitis A, Meningitis, Hepatitis B.. and i even got a drinkable "vaccination" against Cholera and some stomach inflammation virus thingy.. it costs some 42.500 HUF and around half an hour of one's life at the National Center of Epidemiology at Gyáli út.

The thing that is missing -and was the topic of a long consideration- is Rabies. I mean the vaccination protecting from rabies. I gathered information from several sources: the doctor at the epidemiology, friends who have been to Asia, Bruno, my ex, and the final decision was to take the slightly higher risk and not taking the vaccination in advance. The reason basically was that you have to find a doctor anyway in case of accident with a sick animal in a quite short notice with or without vaccination, that probably stops your trip anyway.. With vaccination you need less new vaccines, but you do need them anyway..

And the last question in the topic is malaria. No vaccination is available at the moment but as Asia is highly infected, its almost a must to think about it and be prepared. The three main medicine options were doxycycline, maladrone and lariam.
I read some scary feedbacks about lariam, but basically it wouldn't scare me enough not to take that in case.
I also got a maladrone prescription at the epidemiology, but they said 5-7 pills cost around 11000 HUF, some 40€, and you have to take it one week before arrival to the infected area and keep taking 2 weeks after departure.
After my research on the topic (also checking with friends with experience, ex and forums) i decided to take doxcycline, and with my doctor we found 200 pills of them for a price of 2300 HUF, 8€, with the note that you have to take it 1 week in advance and 4 weeks after leaving risky area. The possible side effect of doxycycline -and the reason why the doctor didnt advice this- is higher photosensitivity but after the discussions with some experienced ones, it seemed a quite low possibility to have it, and there are side effect with the other two options also, so i take this risk.

Some words about medicines
I'm almost done with the list to buy before departure, and the basic things on the list are paracetamol, diclofenac, loperamid, betadine, some gauze, hansaplast, some of my contraceptive pills, and basically thats it. Fortunately Bruno also some stuff as far as i know, so it shouldnt be a problem..

So from the health preparation thats it. Beside this i visited my dentist, made everything done for a long journey, also visited my gynecologist just to make sure, and after visiting most of the doctors of the county, i felt myself ready to go. :)

Here we go! We are in less than a month until departure

Insurance

Insurance is something that i always though kinda unnecessary. There is nothing can happen to me as nothing really bad has ever happened to me so far. And in a way i still think, though now im more persuadable. And it happened this time too. As Bruno was clear how much he thinks it is important, and also my mom was on the same opinion, i had nothing much to choose than accept their opinion and start to think about solutions.

In fact i have a travel insurance already for 3 year as im traveling a lot, and even though im hippie, as this insurance was not expensive enough not to buy it. But it allows you only 3 month of travel in a year or so, thus a long term journey is not covered by it.

So what i have is basically a life- and travel insurance included into a unit linked fund, so im collecting a fund and a part of it behaves as a travel insurance. It will cover all my needs, so im quite happy with the decision and especially with my Mom's help who organized this deal. more info in hungarian.

thats all folks

Tryout

when you go to an SCI camp from Hungary, you have the chance to try yourself out in a "mini workcamp". im gonna do something similar this weekend. we will spend the weekend from friday evening to monday evening with a traveling circus. the people there invited bruno some days ago and he's been spending his time with them since then. they even offered him all winter stay, he would help them with the animals and stuff and for exchange he could stay... its kinda amazing how it still works in europe. i mean its cool that it still works even here and you dont need necessarily move to another continent to find nice hospitable people who are open to share their lives with you..

so anyway this weekend is mini moving, we will see. pretty much excited :)

Restart

So i got to the point when i relaunch this blog as it's been abandoned for so long time. The reason is simple, i will travel again. Now a bit further even then the Middle East and probably for a much longer time.

Now the destination is Asia and the length is approximately 1,5-2 years. The plan is kinda immature yet though here is the route of it, and will be updated when things start to be settled.

The Road Map

The trip will contain many voluntary projects, wwoofing, hitchhiking and couchsurfing.

The sites we will use to find our ways are:

www.couchsurfing.org

www.workaway.info

www.helpx.net

www.wwoof.org

www.sciint.org

The way is quite flexible yet, the only clear points are the start of it which is 23rd january and the casts that is Bruno and me.

Looking forward