Julia Albu, the road-tripping granny has completed her Cape to Cairo trip and now has plans to travel to the United Kingdom to hopefully meet the Queen of England for tea.
Julia Albu has ventured from the Cape all the way to Cairo in her 1997 Toyota Conquest to raise awareness for literacy. She did the road trip and stopped to hand out books along the way. Her adventure has been documented here on Good Things Guy regularly and we thought you would love an update on what Julia is up to next.
Julia has no intentions of slowing down now that her epic road trip is complete. Her next bucket list item is to have tea with the Queen of England. She would like to do this for her 81st birthday.
In an interview with TimesLIVE, she confirmed that she will try to use her faithful car “Tracy”, the 1997 Toyota Conquest to get to England.
“I’m gonna give it a bloody good try‚ the universe will come through for me. At my age‚ what do you have to worry about? You just get up and take a chance‚”
Her trip through Africa was an easy one, besides a few car issues with “Tracy”, she experienced warm and welcoming people wherever she went.
“No one threatened my life in any way. It was rather an act of love throughout. If you are non-racial‚ non-political and non-sexist‚ you are not a threat to anyone. You are simply there to share yourself with whoever you meet and people reward kindness‚”
“I was very blessed to have met the people I met on the journey. Most didn’t speak English but communication is universal. Like when I slept in a cafeteria with seven Egyptians. We did not speak much but we said much. All we did was smile at each other and for some odd reason we knew what the other meant every time.”
Julia has already sent “Tracy” off to Greece on a ship. She has since set off to Greece to collect the Conquest and will be driving from Greece to London.
“The last stretch will be to London, tea with the Queen, and then can you believe it’ll be my Birthday again! The circle will close and I’ll do a U-turn and come home again.”
“I must admit that I’m feeling a little nervous about the next leg, this is not going to be the African Continent with The Great North Road which is now so familiar to me but Europe which I have only ever experienced in a more conventional manner.”
“I am an African and proud of it and I intend spreading my love of this beautiful continent with every km Tracy and I travel.”
We look forward to this next journey and cannot wait to share more with you. Best of luck to Julia and “Tracy”.
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