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… as Rachel and Darren’s without any further incident, which is more than can be said for two motorists way over the frontier in the USA several miles away. Seems that there’s been something of a fender-bender over there between two vehicles and both of them have caught fire.<\/p>\n

Not every day that you see something like that, but it is worrying just how easily modern cars catch fire after an accident. I don’t remember cars catching fire this easily back in the good old days when I was nought but a pup.<\/p>\n

By the way, the photo was taken from a distance of several miles with the new zoom lens. I’m clearly going to have to work on my technique but you can see the advantages of going a-wandering in the spring before the leaves are out on the trees.<\/p>\n

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For the last couple of nights I’ve been sleeping out in forests – driving into logging roads and looking for clearings to park up. This seems to be the answer because i’ve had a couple of decent nights’ sleep.All these dirt roads aren’t doing the car much good though as you can see. It’ll need a good wash before I hand it back.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, this idea of hiring a big 8-seater and converting it into some kind of motorhome is definitely the way to go on these kinds of trips. Despite the extra cost and the higher fuel consumption I’ve spent 14 nights asleep in the car and at a saving of about $70 per night on motel fees, that’s about $1000 saved and it’s that kind of thing that makes these journeys much more affordable.<\/p>\n

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Since the last time\u00a0 blogged I hit the USA border and I’ve been basically following the roads through the mountains along the frontier. Choosing an extreme destination and setting the SatNav to “shortest route” isn’t half finding me some astonishing roads over the mountains, even if there is too much haze for the camera to take full advantage of the view. But it’s been sending me up and down roads like this, and I’m not complaining.<\/p>\n

Eventually the road joined up with the road that I took in the autumn and so this part of the circuit is complete. From there I hit the highway to Rachel and Darren’s. And I have my work to do here as well. Zoe, the eldest girl, has her driving test on Thursday and is a little shaky on parallel parking and so we were out for a few hours yesterday and we’ll be out in a short while for another couple of hours as well.
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