The first skill someone MUST have in order to live a travelling life is the ability to drive the vehicle you’ve chosen. Guess what I can’t do? Go on, guess. My licence allows me up…
Posts tagged Truck stops
44. A tale of two pumps
Before we bought our American RV, Georgie, we had the same romantic notions of life on the open road that I think most people have: it was all about the adventure. We dreamed about the…
38. Another day, another car park
There are patterns in any life that have a predictability to them, a sense of normal consequence, an inevitability. Take, for example, the look on people’s faces when I tell them that, for a significant…
28. Patience, wonder and vigilance
We have now driven 7,845 miles, (which sounds even better as 12,626 km) in our RV, Georgie, with me trailing behind in the Smart car. We have gone from the UK, down through Portugal, around…
25. Feeding mozzies and finding Heaven
As my friends and regular readers know, my grasp of geography is absolute rubbish. So as we cross from Hungary into Croatia, I have no idea what to expect. I know Dubrovnik is further south…
16. What do you mean, you’ve got no brakes?
There are things one never wants to hear when travelling with a seven ton vehicle like Georgie: – ‘I’m stuck’, is not great; ‘I left the sewerage tap open’, is worse; and ‘I’ve lost your car…