The Replacements
As you can see. We have another vehicle for the next trip. She/he will be converted into a camper.
Some Tv
As some of you know we have no TV licence so we cannot watch live TV but we can watch Netflix. We’ve jsut re-watched Long Way Down (LWD) and although i was extremely happy with it the first time we…
Merry Christmas
To all those that put us up, looked after us, fed us or just met us and said hello; to my friends who watched us have the time of our lives…..Merry Christmas….if you do that. Happy Holidays…. if you don’t.…
Campfire Tails1
I’ve been thinking about completing the our trip in numbers section and my Dad mentioned it the other day. So I’ve started on it. Some people have mentioned how good Julie was on the trip living in a Land Rover.…
The Discoverers
Nelly & Jelly have been to: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India,…
Homeland
Its been a few months since my last confession….After an pretty OK flight back from Halifax to London with a supprisingly low price of about £250 each we got home to a fridge full of basics thanks to my Mum.…
End Of Days
That’s it, the end. Its over…..The car is loaded on the final leg of our trip. Matilda is in a big steel box and waiting for shipping back home. We are also waiting for our shipping (flight) back home. I’ve…
The Lobster
Yes its a film and its not even out yet ! Not steaks this time but Lobster. I got them on special offer. Jan cooked them and had to show us how to eat them. Some tools were used. Phil…
X Men Days Of Future Past
1. 86,400,000 seconds2. 1,440,000 minutes3. 24,000 hours 4. 1000 days5. 142 weeks (rounded down)6. Two years 8 months and 26 days We are not quite there yet but its not long……Sometime in July we will be home and on July twenty…
Top Gunits Got Wings In It
Few more miles and a few more checks of the car. Some service work done again. I really need to count how many we’ve done for the trip in numbers page. I’ll do it when we get home. We stopped…
Toy Story1
Firstly a picture of the missile we missed the first time passing this way..Woody would not be happy….Here we are trying to get into a State Park in Minnesota and we’d done all the web stuff (which is pretty rubbish…
Long Way Home
More miles and more fuel. We are almost exactly following the route we did going west coming back east. So its not exactly interesting. We did manage to see the missile in the silo we missed last time as the…
Wacky Races
The tourists in Yellowstone obviously think that seeing a Bison is reason to stop dead in the middle of the road….on a hill….inbetween parked cars. Parked illegally of course trying to get that illusive picture of an animal so common…
Crank
Leaving lovely Alaska and back into Canada. We met some nice people in Alaska and we would have liked to stay longer but we need to get moving. The Canada border crossing was fun. They wanted to take our pepper…
Earthquake
Here we are with the gearbox fitted to the car. I say here, as we are in McDonalds….We have driven here. Blue is dead…..long live two…My ball(s) and sceptre (pictures) giving way under the pressure of being a mechanic….did I…