A bottle of champagne in the Atlantic coast of Portugal opened a bottle of 32-year-old Ian Andersen To fill his dream in the seven continents of the world. He planned for 10 months, covering approximately 10,000 miles to reach the final destination of Japan.
However, he did not invent the war of Iran for Israel.
When he crossed Iran on June 1, he was filled with Anders’s excitement and anxiety.
“I was pretty nervous, we are doing well now in an unchanged territory,” CBS news said Thursday Thursday on Thursday Thursday on Thursday on Thursday. “But I immediately liked the people I met on the road with so many positive experiences … and hospitality, generosity.”
Ian Andersen
He said he was “surprised every day,” bizarre Iranian curious tea or offer food, trying to pay for a meal in a restaurant.
On June 13, Israel began to bomb the nuclear and military sites of Iran.
“It’s not external hostility, but I read people’s body language and facial expressions,” said Andersen. “And I knew that I was a little danger, because people were quite related to Israel and the US, as the bombs were falling and missiles.”
He and his local Iranian guide, Reza, decided to capture in an inn 45 kilometers north of Tehran, in a town called Lejijan for two days.
Reza, Andersen said he became his friend, recommended that people did not say that it was American and to avoid talking to people. If possible. But he said that he slipped, the hotel entered the hotel by revealing his nationality.
“They were not happy there that he had to share the hotel with that” American “,” Andersen said.
On June 15, Andersen heard an Israeli bomb exploded in the distance. That day, he received an e-mail from the U.S. State department, advising opportunities for Americans who wanted Iran, based on current locations. He decided that his best bet was eight hours of career, around the Caspian Sea to reach Azerbaijan.
He and Reza quickly captured the flow of compact traffic, as the neighbors were taken from Tehran. Gas stations passed with long car lines, and a lot of military control points.
“It’s been pretty amazing,” he said. “Maybe the idea of being pulled in a military checkpoint.”
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“Reza, my driver could not protect me, it’s my guide. It’s my guide. It’s very good, this is dangerous here.
Andersen said that “we facilitated more and more, and at the end they did what happened on the border of Iran.
But the biggest nerve part of that last day began, once interviewed, but twice as opposed to Iranian officials.
For the second conversation, he took a crowd and took the army barracks out of the storage closet.
“I was like that,” well, I had a 50-50 chance to do as a trading chip or more questioning, “he said.” Actually, it was like a conversation less than a minute. ”
“I went inside the night to the bike and then I went into Azerbaijani and hoped for a half back.” I liked something wrong here. Why, why was it so easy? “But they didn’t, and I went into Azerbaijan.”
Clearing Iran’s internet firewall, our family could receive messages in the US before entering the first hotel, and then sleep 12 hours relief and fatigue.
As the conflict of Israel Iran progresses, Andersen said to live in the US passport and traveling abroad.
He said he registered the route of travel with the US State Department StepSends notifications and updates in countries based on passenger movements. It is a way that he went to Azerbaijani, and asks all Americans who travel abroad to do the same.
Andersen also said if he had not been an Iranian guide, it may not come out of the country. He hopes to gather money for reza and his family.
He also wants to take his bike ride to Japan to fulfill the dream of living all continents in the world.