Legendary Day

First, I didn’t recap yesterday in all its complete glory.  After a hike to the market for a load of canned goods, fruit, and the like, we went by the local paper to introduce ourselves…figured maybe we could get people to stop staring at us if we got official.  We didn’t get two steps in the door and the lady was already taking notes…soon as we get back to camp they’re going to take pictures and we’ll be English countryside celebrities.

Then off to Swindon for goods and services, check email about the car.  Nothing special.  That’s just where you heard from us yesterday.

When we got back to Malmesbury, though, we gave the fella with car a ring.  He already settled with somebody on it.  At this point though, we were desperate…so the Irish Dunny came out and we had a little haggle session.  Turns out he almost did the Rally this year, was married in Vegas, was willing to give us the car cheap and throw in the use of his tools, parts, and garage to get us off.

So, time to celebrate.  But it was raining, and we’re too cheap for pubs right now.  Dammit, we had all this cooking gear and potatoes and canned hamburgers and wine, but nowhere to set up shop…then a light shined through the clouds onto that piece of monkey poo car just sitting by the tents and I think we both had the same realization.  We were going to get some use out of that bastard.  So we lit the stove inside the car and made potato/canned hamburger stew and drank 3 bottles of paint thinner wine…and it might have been the most satisfying meal of all time.

Irresponsible?  Not when you’re awesome.  We were up at 7 this morning and took a bus and 3 trains to Haslemere and just finished servicing the new car, the new Chariot of Awesome (just another SJ, don’t worry kids, no huge changes there and we still got what we wanted).  We’re going to flip the other one on ebay and see if we can actually profit off her

To Henley this weekend to party with Stevie and do some good English stuff.  Like drink, I guess

Skip, out. (SkipLizard Homepage)

This entry was posted on July 6, 2007 at 12:28 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.