Getting to the point

Well where was I before I got resoundly sidetracked by random pictures, buildings, deffkoptas and ipods. oh yes, Roadtrip! Time for a flashback! ( cue waynes world sound for doing flashbacks complete with hand motions, do, do le do, do do le do, do, do, le do)

Yes, yesterday started off fairly early and strangely enough with a rather confused dog as Owen tried to figure out why Engineseer was still here and where he slept. He then started barking at him again but as also wagging his tale at the same time. Grumpys suggestion was maybe Owen could sense the fear and was only barking as he was pleased to have a human he could boss around. Grumpy also suggested that Owen should 'write his own blog' of the view of the world from a Dogs perspective. Stay tuned for that one to see if that actually comes to anything. Although Grumpy did say that he would help Owen with the writing.

After loading up Engineseers car it was time to see him off, well only after he managed to figure out how to fit his chair into the car which was highly amusing to watch. He's selling his car so the old 'batmobile' ( yes could we be anymore geeky? Rhetorical by the way) will soon be gone for good. Ahh all the YSA trips we had in that thing, if that car could talk..... we would probably have had to have it crushed so it didn't spill any secrets!

After Engineseer left to go to the DVLA office in Nottingham ( he's in another country and still can't escape english red tape, he, he, he) it was time for me to pack up and ship out.

After getting to Travellers I removed the blanket from the back seat which Owen usually sits on to find the seat was also covered in Dog Hairs. Yep, Grumpy had forgotten to mention something important. So with a few bad words uttered under my breath such as bother, balderdash and darn I tried to clean the seats as best I could ( disclaimer: actual uttered words may have differed from those displayed here).

Traveller came out and mentioned that her American friend ( or American Guy) was staying at her brothers in Leicester and we would need to go and collect him. We got to Leicester and I discovered that the years may pass, YSA come and go, and People get married but Travellers directional skills are still as bad as ever. It took us nearly an hour and ten minutes to find her brothers house!

Still Fearless arrived pretty soon and we were on our way, somewhat later then planned mind you.

Still on the plus side it was a very straight run even if it was annoying as they had flipping average speed cameras everywhere.

We got to Cambridge and Traveller tried to get directions from her friends on the phone. Which also caused us to experience a few problems as she doesn't drive much herself if at all she wsan't too good at anticipated when to give me directions. For example telling me to stop in the middle of a busy street , not the best instructions in the world) still she has such a cheery personality it's not possible to get cross with her for long. And besides she actively admits that her navigational skills are not so good. She even told me I could say " She couldn't navigate her way out of a paper bag".

Still when we finally got into cambridge city centre, past lots of walls with bikes up againist them underneath signs saying please do not lean bikes againist the walls, her navigational skills seemed to improve considerably as she took us through so many twists and turns and changes of direction that my sense of location was pretty much shot to bits very quickly.

Still we met up with our friends and had a good lunch, then a look round cambridge, followed by some hot choclate in a cafe then finally some games of pool while traveller went to met one of her other friends who was very shy.

Getting out of cambridge lead to a few more problems as trying to navigate in the dark with no help from the back, I ended up on the wrong road, going to bedford. Pulling of the dual carriageway I turned into a small housing estate intending to park up and call Grumpy for help. It was at this point that fearless earned his name as when I pulled up he said " Lets ask those people" and was out of the car in a flash. I looked around expecting to see some people on the pavement or something, but oh no. Fearless had meant he was going to ask the people who lived in the house which I had pulled up near. He ran to their door ad it was answered by a very confused women. She graciousily called her husband who kindy gave Fearless some directions, who then shook the guys hand and was bounded back to the car as quickly as he could. I don't think theres many people these days who would have the guts to knock on a random door for directions. ( you can tell he's a newly returned missionary can't you ? :-)

We made good time back to Leicester where we dropped Fearless and American Guy off at Travellers Brothers. We didn't then however make good time back to hers and due to directional mix up we ended up getting lost again. Still all part of the fun I suppose. As she's now working in Thailand it's very possible that I won't see her until next Christmas now. So it was a bit sad saying goodbye.

Anyway I finally got home nearly 14 hours after I had left it. Still it was fun and it was nice to spend sometime with friends I won't see again for a while. And that's what made the day worth it.

Later folks