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1 Day to Go!	Posted on 27/10/2003 at 09:03 GMT
Well, there's only 1 day to go until we leave. We haven't been posting much as its been a battle to get the car sorted, along with all the documentation we need, as well as all the extras that you never think of, such as spare bulbs, torches, extra petrol additive, feeler blades, spare points etc. I hope Halfords appreciate us, that's all I can say. Pretty much the whole way through this I've been battling with the organisation of our trip, but now Mark's coming into his own, as he's a lot more practical than I am - coming up with ingenious solutions to the storage problem of all our kit, by gaffer taping much of it to the top of the inside roof of the boot. There's been an air of quiet apprehension about the trip in the house over the last few days - most of it from me I guess, as I'm convinced that the car's gonna break down 10-20 miles from home. The mysterious white smoke that appears inside the car but not the engine still hasn't been properly tracked down - which is one of my chief worries. But then I'm probably worrying needlessly. Mark reckons its just limescale from the radiator and heating elements - something thats perhaps bourne out by the visibility of individual white particles within the smoke. Fingers crossed!
posted by Wild