Polar Challenge Blog

Well the big day is here and with tears back home we are off on our journey to the Cape. With the wonders of modern technolgy I am writing this from the camp site.
All is going well, we left Tamworth at 19:30 a little later than we had hoped for. The main delay was that the broadband dongle that Mark was going to lend us never came as the postman forgot that he was supposed to get it to me for three O clock. Still a quick call in to the local Phones 4U shop and we now have a fancy 3 modem.
It’s amazing how much we have got in the car and you can still see out the back window which will help when you are driving on the wrong side of the road. Talking of roads there are lots of silly people that are driving slow and as we go to over take them in New Blue they speed up. She has the power to show them up but we are happy doing 60 – 65 mph.
ACcording to the good old Tom Tom we would get to the Dover camp site for 23:00 but the good thing is they have an hounisty section for late comers so we can just pitch and pay in the morning. We got here for 23:26 so with the road works that was good going. We thought it best to drive down the day before as this means we won’t panic if we hit traffic on the way down and possible miss our spot on the ferry.
With Elvis driving this makes me a passenger and you see some strange sites like the 1930’s safty bus that was stuggling up a hill and looked down on us as we flew by. Quite a few people are waving or sounding there horn at us as we driving along as well as taking pictures at least that’s what Elvis says the flash was. It seems that the look of the car says we are going some where (He says laughing).
The trip down was great and the car purformed brillient we could not of asked for more. We did the run down non stop so the first 250 miles are now done only another 3750 miles to go.
Well tent is up and it’s time for sleep so catch you all tomorrow night night all and a kiss to our love ones xx.

Geoff

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