Umm…more legendary…

Right, so I just posted like an hour ago.  This is how fast things get awesome on this trip.  The fella (Steve) that sold us the good car and lent us the parts/tools turned out to be a King of Awesome.  He dropped all and helped us fix everything that needed it on the car (save some welding we’ll do in the morning), said we all ought to have a beer together, then brought us back to his 1877 English cottage in Liphook.

And we’re staying the night.  And probably getting drunk with one of the coolest dudes we’ve ever met.

Oh, by the way, him and his pops have a collection of about 35 cars, most of which are old steam-powered cars from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.  Four of them are one-of-a-kind…literally…there’s only 1 in the entire world…and a handful of others were 1 of less than 10.  They’re stored either in the shop or in his dad’s adjacent house, which by the way is an absolute marvel of beauty that I assume is rampant here in England because everywhere I go I’m floored.

Hell, we left the shop with Steve in his old VW bug (a collector, for sure) and took a winding, road-burning drive through long tunnels of trees (the trees here grow out and bend over the roads in the summer…never seen anything like it) and ended up in front of that cottage with a clothesline and trampoline in the back and kids and dogs running around and green everywhere.  We’ll hang here for a spell then head to a few Liphook pubs with an official SkipLizard Savior.

That disaster?  Whatever.  Blessing in disguise of the utmost regard people.  Positive thoughts…it all works out.  Once again, here’s to being awesome.

Skip, out. (SkipLizard Homepage)

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