When life gives you lemons - write a travel blog about nonsense. It's a form of lemonade. This hapless traveller could hardly tie his shoelace, not sure how he is going to figure out how to travel 15,000 kms. Like you say, perhaps - one step at a time. Would make for an interesting blog post...

Maybe she is the devil. You too good at this. Maybe a regular to appear again down the line. Stop giving me idea :)