Happy Holidays to your all. Avoiding the Christian messages and wishing all our friends, no matter what their faith, a Happy Holiday. Its not like the non-chiristians don’t get the same holidays, you lucky people ! We’ve been on holiday for over two…

The laptop is on good behaviour although when the engineer changed the motherboard he didn’t move over the CD card reader. So they are coming back on Friday. Muppet…Last few days we’ve been working hard. Trying to get the house…

@#*$ &% and @#*$ &% and @#*$ &%…..I could swear….I just did…Just to top off all the stress and what my life is now were are back at home temporarily. To top it ALL off. My laptop has ALSO JUST…

I’m not freaking out yet….So coming home has been a fest of broken failing devices. Shower and cooker being noteworthy….On a more positive note the car passed its MOT so we are now mobile and don’t need to borrow Mums…

You know that little piece of paper that you need for the car. You know, the Carnet de Passages En Douane. Well you don’t really need one but it makes it easier in some counties (and much harder in some).Yet…

The Defender is parked up with some generous Americans and were are in the UK for all of 7 weeks. We’ve missed the family and we are back for Xmas.A few updates on the gearbox. We’ve sold the damaged one…

SQUIRREL! Its December the first and Christmas is starting in NYC. The residents in the  apartment we are camping outside have been very interested in the car. Theres been speculation to what we are doing and why we are here.…

We are in NY and camping on Manhattan Island…I bet its the cheapest accommodation in NY. We found the queue to get in a bit much even on Thanksgiving at 2pm. The queue for the tunnel was mammoth. We couldn’t…

some times you just want to scream and I know some of you know what I mean….This morning the diff lock lamp was on ( don’t know if its in lock or not = bad ). The switch they broke…

Not that they are in the South but he’s a Southerner….Ohio is Northern but Sean comes from about a far south as you can get in the UK.Thanks Sean and Debb(s) ((LOL)) for allowing us to stay and keeping me…

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So the garage did a efficient job getting us on our way. We left there about lunchtime Tuesday. A few problems with the diff-lock lever which I knew we would. Last time it took me ages to get it working…

After a under-informed weekend we were told early morning that our worse fear was realised, the box was still in Chicago….well…I need not tell you I was upset and possibly nearly in tears. The money that this would have cost…

Car rented and good news that the box should be in Indianapolis DHL Warehouse for Monday morning. We will go to pick it up in the Ford Focus we’ve just rented ($150 one week) The DHL fee is now $70…

An update….The box has moved a bit and we’ve found out we might be able to clear the customs ourselves without using a broker. Saving a grand sum of $201usd. We will still need to pay a $9usd fee and…