The Final Pre-launch Destination

July 18, 2007 by Andy.

First off I would like to extend our most sincere and gracious thanks to Steve Theobald, his wife Liz, Steve’s dad Jeff, and Steve’s two children Scott and Jess.  They not only helped us with our car, but they fed, sheltered, and offered friendship to us when we were in need of some serious help.  IF anyone is interested, they have a fantastic collection of steam-engine cars, as well as various others (including Steve’s collection of VWs), here is a link to their page…http://www.steamcar.net/… check out the page that says Jeff’s page to find out about their awesome collection.  Cheers to their entire family.

So after we had our amazing cultural experience with the Irish bartender, we awoke a little groggy and headed to Steve’s shop to finish up the SJ.  Basically we were there just waiting on parts and various extras to arrive, so it was a relatively slow day.  Ryan and I did manage to get in a vigirous game of wall-ball though, my arm hurts today.  Well anyway, about 3pm Steve asked us if we wanted to go back to his house for the evening and have a barbecue…we tried to graciously decline saying that they had already done so much for us that we could not accept another thing, but Steve insisted that they send us off with a proper meal.  How do you turn that down…well let me tell you…YOU DON’T!  They prepared a proper feast including five different kinds of meat and a tasty spread of almost anything that you could think of.  It was their going away present to us, as if they had not already bent over backwards for us.  Cheers again.

After the meal, Ryan and I decided to go ahead and make the drive to London since there would probably not be a whole lot of traffic at 11pm.  We were partially right.  There was still traffic, but not like there is during the day…good decision.  There was one point where I was driving along minding my own business, when all of a sudden the nice 4 lane road that I was on turned into a 2 lane road without any warning with traffic traveling at 40-50mph.  What the hell is that all about?  They already drive on the wrong side of the road, and now they are just cutting me off for no reason.  We made it nonetheless.

Stevie, Ryan’s co-worker and friend, has generously offered his NICE apartment to us until Friday.  He lives on the northeast side of London for those of you that are familiar with the area.  Here in a bit we are off to go and see some of those things that we should see and be awesome in central London.  The word on the street is that we will have a hard time finding an actual ENglish person in London.  It is like a different world from the England that Ryan and I have come to know, and part of me will miss it.  There are no more rolling hills and green fields, but they have been replaced with skyscrapers and concrete, but it is the hub of England so we must be here by virtue of our awesomeness.  Additionally, we have one final stop to make before we are completely ready to depart, and that is to the allmighty “Wal-Mart.”  Even though I am still feuding with them, we have to go and make some purchases to aide us in our short 10,000 mile drive.

Andy Out (SkipLizard Homepage)

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