Ny bil - New car

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Bedre sent end aldrig: Har endelig fået bestilt en ny bil.
Det blev den lille nye Volkswagen UP som jeg tidligere har skrevet om.
Jeg valgte den mellemdyre version MOVE UP i farven DEEP BLACK metallak.
Se de 3 typer UP her: http://www.volkswagen.dk/da/models/den-nye-up-/udstyrsvarianter.html#none
Med følgende ekstraudstyr:

• metallak deep black
• DK-pakken: elruder og elspejle, tågeforlygter, samt MAPS AND MORE (musik, navigation , telefon og mini bilcomputer)
• Airconditioning
• udvidelse garanti af fabriksgarantien til ialt 4 år. (dvs 2 år yderligere)
  
  Desuden med instrumentbræt i BEIGE. Synes bare det ellers blev SORT i SORT.

Så der kom desværre ekstraudstyr på for små 16000 kr. Bilen MOVE UP koster 97.990 kr.
Så blev en dyr omgang. Nok ikke så meget for en del mennesker, men meget for mig.
Havde jo også kun lånt til en NYERERE BRUGT BIL. Så må selv trække på nogle ting, for at havde det endelige beløb til bilen.
Men NU blev det gjort :o)
Havde vaklet mellem sort eller dark silver. Havde låning på at ville kunne se en dark silver her medio juni.
Men stadig havde SMC BILER i Gladsaxe ingen holdende, og den eneste farveprøve de havde på papir, var en kunde løbet med.
Gad ikke udsætte det mere og valgte den sorte som jeg jævnligt har set. Leveringen vil dog først foregå i slutningen af september.

Desværre leverer de bilen med SOMMERDÆK tæt på vinteren. Så traks skal jeg desværre lige bruge penge på dæk og fælge hos dem :o/
Bilen bliver lavet på VW fabrikken i Slovakiet.
Nu skal jeg så have ordnet depositum og forhåbentligt også den samlede betaling, da jeg vil af med pengene, så jeg ikke mangler nogen af dem i september.

From VW page

From VW page

Bad om beige for at lyse op i den møke bil
Ordered BEIGE to ligthen up and make contrast

From VW page

Finally pulled myself together and bought a new car. And chose the small Volkswagen UP that I have written  about before.

I chose the medium-expensive version MOVE UP in the color DEEP BLACK metallic.
See the car here: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/up-nf/home

With the following enhancements:

• metallic deep black
• DK-package: electric windows and electric mirrors, fog lamps, and  MAPS AND MORE (music, navigation, telephone and mini-onboard computer)
• airconditioning
• extending warranty by the factory warranty to 4 years. (ie 2 additional years)

Choose the dashboard in BEIGE.  Just got TOO BLACK in the cabin.
Was alot of money to spend. Guess its not alot for some, but too me... it is.
In DENMARK there is added 110 % to a cars price, by the state of Denmark. So a car in DK, is much more expensive than most places in the world. Because the danish velfaresystem is based on very very high carprices. So actually the car would normally cost almost half... unless you live in DK.

Have only lend money for a newer used car. So had to find the rest of the money in my savings.
But NOW, it's finally done....
Had wavered between black or dark silver. Had been promised to be able to see a dark silver here in mid-June.
But still they had no UP in dark silver.
So no to postpone it once more before making up my mind, I decided to go for it, and just order the black.
They will be able to deliver it in late september 2012.
The car is made at the VW factory in Slovakia.
They will deliver it with summer-tires. So will have to buy rims and tires soon after delivery.
In this part of the world, it is uwise NOT to change tires come winter and vice versa.

Toronto, Canada ??

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At ville opleve den store natur i Canada er ikke nogen ny idé i mit hoved. Den idé blev formet for mange år siden, da jeg tilfældigt læsten en bog af forfatteren og jægeren Søren Ervig.

Men at rejse så langt, bruge pengene til det, rejse alene, og finde MODET til det.... har været grund til det aldrig er blevet alvor.
MEN da jeg i januar 2011 vandt en rejse for 2 til Cape Town Sydafrika, med en tur ud at cage-dive med hvidhajer via en konkurrence på Discovery Channel Danmarks facebookside, tog jeg det som et LOS I RØ... fra højere magter (om man vil).
At kunne jeg dét, måtte jeg hellere se at komme mere ud i verden og OPLEVE.

Igennem en del år har jeg haft en facebookveninde, der til dagligt bor i Toronto. Vi har endda mødtes da hun har været i Danmark på ferie.
Har gået en tid og sagt til migselv at NU skulle jeg snart over Atlanten. Har også lagt lidt penge til side.
Vildmarker og det vest- og nordlige Canada bliver det ikke til denne gang. Ville gerne opleve British Colombia, Yukon og North West Territories.
Men forleden skrev vi sammen på FB, og da hun skrev hun håbede vi snart mødtes igen... spurgte jeg om hvad med i aug/sep.
Så nu har jeg lidt lovet at jeg nok kigger forbi Toronto i min sommerferie.

Det er dog noget af en jungle at kigge hoteller og fly. Et site så godt ud, men ved nærmere syn på deres facebook-side (for at se deres kunders mening), blev jeg chokeret ved KUN at se BROK, KLAGER og ADVARSLER fra kunder, der bestemt var kede af det.
Så nu kigger jeg lidt andre steder for at få en kombination af fly og hotel. Desværre ser det meste (som jeg kan betale) ud til at ligge små 10 km fra centrum. Men håber der er busser/tog.
Vil måske også bo lidt nær min veninde.

Så det bliver spændende om jeg kommer afsted til Toronto. Min første tur over atlanten :o)

Update aug.2012: Har sørme taget mig sammen, og skal afsted til Toronto. Se mere hér:http://brian-erritsoe.blogspot.dk/2012/08/ferie-i-canada-going-to-canada-od.html

Toronto, Capital of Ontario, Canada.

Wanting to experience the great nature and wilderness of Canada is not a new idea in my head. 
The idea was formed many years ago when I read a book by author and hunter Soren Ervig. 

But to travel that far and ALONE, useing all those money, and finding the courage for it ..has sofar been the reason I havn't gone. 
BUT when I in January of 2011 won a trip for two to Cape Town South Africa, including a cagediving experience (won it on Discovery Channel Denmark's facebook page), I took it as a sign... a KICK IN MY A ... that higher powers (if you will) wanted me to travel...and far away, and see the world. 

Have for several years had a good friend in Toronto,  whom I know from facebook. We've even met when she was in Denmark on vacation several years ago. Have for a while and said to myself, that it was about time, that I went across the atlantic. Have put some money aside... 

Will not be the wilderness I'll see this time. Would like to experience British Columbia, Yukon and the North West Territories. But when we th eother day wrote eachother on FB, she wrote that she hoped we'll meet soon again... I asked: HOW ABOUT IN AUGUST/SEPTEMBER? 
So now I have almost promised that I probably will stop by Toronto during my summer vacation. So will be a vacation in a major city, that holds a bigger population, than the entire population of Denmark.
However, it's a jungle out there,  looking at hotels and flights!! One site looked good. But on closer inspection on their facebook page (to see what their clients' said), I was shocked by ONLY seeing ANGRY PEOPLE, COMPLAINTS and WARNINGS from customers, warning other NOT to use the agent. So now I'll have to  look elsewhere to get a combination of flights and hotel. 
Unfortunately, most hotels (that I can afford) seems to be just under 10 miles from Toronto city center. But hope there are good and easy public transportation. 
Would also like to live near my friend. Have alrady decided to visit: Toronto ZOO and the CN Tower.
So exciting to see if I FINALLY pull myself together, and GO. Will be my FIRST trip across the atlantic :o)

Update aug.2012: I finally did it. Going to Toronto for about 10-11 days. Read more here: http://brian-erritsoe.blogspot.dk/2012/08/ferie-i-canada-going-to-canada-od.html

Imprægnering af kasket med voks - impregnating a cap with wax

Lavede forleden en video til youtube, hvor jeg imprægnere min Fjällräven VELHA kasket.
Købte den for nogle år siden, og efter at havde været vasket en del gange, ja så trængte den til lidt beskyttelse.
Brugte noget voks jeg købte engang. Se videoen herunder.
Laver kun tekst til... har endnu ikke mandet mig op til at tale på video endnu *g* ;o)
Håber den vil gavne nogen....

Made a video for youtube the other day, where I use wax to waterproofe my good old Fjällräven VELHA CAP. Since I bought it, I almost always wear it when outside.
I you would like to see the video, you can see it below.
Have not yet tried to speak on video, so only use text in the video to explain and communicate with the viewer.
Hope it will help someone waterproofing similiar clothes...

Bookreview: THE FINAL FRONTIERSMAN

By: James Campbell
Published: 2004
300 pages

My rating

Heimo is a german-american who grew up in Wisconsin, USA. With a violent father, loving mother, and a younger brother.He early discovered a huge love and facination of nature and wildlife, and dreamt about living in the wilderness of Alaska.

James Campbell has written his book after living with the Korths from time to time, during a year.
Campbell is Heimos first coussin.
This book is about his violent and troublesome childhood, the dream of leaving for Alaska, and finally managing to leave to work for a trapper.
Also about living in the bush, living with eskimoes in Savoonga, there meeting his wife to be (Edna), and settling down in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (while still legal). Moving around between 3 cabins to make sure wildlife regerates from his trapping, and that they can make a living of the land.

It's a true story all the way. About loosing their firstborn child at age 4 in the Coleen river, but later succesfully raising two daugthers Rhonda and Krin in the wild.
We learn about living in the rough unforgiving wilderness, with extreem cold, and dangerous wildlife roaming the woods. But the Korths still has brought some comforts from civilized world: computer, music, VCR aso.


James Campbell follows Heimo on his traplines and talks about how Alaska is changing due to laws, oil and nature preservation. Campbell also interviews old trappers and friends of the Korths.
Heimo can best be described as: a big man, with a big heart and love for his children, wife and the wilderness :o)

Some parts of the book has too much talk about politics and alaskan history. (a bit boring and difficult if english is not ones native language) and mine isn't. But if you're english, you will have no problems!

But othervise a GOOD BOOK for those who dream about, or enjoy reading about people living in the wild, living of nature...far from the rest of the world. Only 14 pictures in the book :o/
But pretty sure I'll read the book again some day :oD

See Campbells page here with pics from the korth family: http://www.jamesmcampbell.net/docs/photography.html

The Heimo Korth Fan Club on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Heimo-Korth-Fan-Club/235442092169

VBS.TV has in 2010 made a television show about Heimo and Edna. See it below. (Krin and Rhonda has grown up and moved away.)