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…
Aurora
Finally we’ve seen the Aurora…..Bucket list ticked….a quite amazing display for this time of year. Pure fluke for about 10 minutes and we caught it. Photos don’t do it justice but you get the picture so to speak….1:45am and tired…gearbox…
The Glass House
We have a new windscreen and specially cut to order. You can’t imagine how expensive they are here so the car insurance was worth it. The new screen was $400 USD. No excesss/deductable. You know the insurance only pay the…
Moose
Would you credit it but Samuel L. Jackson has a movie coming out called Moose. So there you have it….a perfect blog title.We went to see George and his Land Rover today in Fairbanks and although its in part and…
Lone Wolf Mcquade
We are officially on our way home so that should please Julies Gran. However we have a smashed windscreen so movement towards home will be delayed whilst we find a replacement. Luckily, we think the insurance covers it. Insurance in…
White Fang
Apologies for missing off the post title in the last one….i’ll try not to do it again.We finally met up with the Kiwis again and they stayed the night at the same spot. I think Will wanted to get moving…
Bearly A Lion
Some days you get a bit bored of driving so you mess about…..We did see a bear ! Yes we did. Its early for them and they are mostly still sleeping, so, in your face African lions. Although the lions…
Pay It Forward1
This is the second time i’ve posted using this film title. I may do it again. For those that do not know the film is about doing good deeds if one is done for you. Pretty much the same as…
The Hurt Locker
My damn diff lock switch is faulty, again. Its new Allmakes one and I bet its been operated twice ! Damn you Allmakes ! I’m’ going to see it it can be repaired but knowing what happened with the last…