Saturday, 26 July 2008

Lorry Jewellery

In a hotel in Volgograd, Russia having a rest and a shower after one night of camping and one night sleeping in the car, which was extremely uncomfortable (35 degrees, steering wheel always in wrong place). Had a very close shave on the road yesterday so have totally lost my nerve overtaking - which is a bit worrying given that we have 8000 miles still to go. The sheer scale of the drive is sinking in now - we can just about manage 350 miles a day due to heat, tiredness, stress and road conditions. We are driving all day, stopping a road cafes and stalls for a stretch then carrying on. Am loving it.

Anyway, recently in the Ukraine we were attracting a fair amount of flak from large lorries carrying logs and bales of hay so we decided to pimp the Roo up a bit and bought this:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Westwood would be proud. Dat is da sweetness. Nuff respect.