Winding up my new job was a breeze. I was going to be away for a month, but there was no rushing to meet deadlines, or working frantically to tie up loose ends, it was pretty straightforward. I still had time on my last day to remove a huge cactus stump from the backyard and…
Havasu
Familiar Donkey Territory Feeling buoyed from watching the first grand prix of the year, we took the afternoon to pack. We said our goodbyes to Deb and Cleo gave us a look of utter abandonment through the bedroom window as we drove off. With only an hour of daylight left, we went to our old…
Winter with Berta
It shouldn’t be all about the van, but it really is… Since coming back from our October trip, we gutted Berta and started from scratch. This time we were building up the interior for real. We’d garnered enough information from our test builds to know what we wanted and so we set to it. Fully…
The US Grand Prix
Next year there will be three Formula 1 races in America, but Austin will always have the title of US Grand Prix. Miami and Vegas aren’t real race tracks, they are events. Austin hosts a world class circuit that produces world class racing. A Wander Down the Strip We’d only parked Berta the day before…
Berta’s Fall Falter
Berta didn’t fall, but she did falter a little… Lizzy and Rory We’d spent the last two days hanging out with my great mate Lizzy and her 2.5 year old son, Rory. As you do when you meet at the airport, we’d figured out that we hadn’t seen each other in nearly four years and…
Berta’s Summer
I needed a holiday (as always) and Dan’s business goings-on meant that we could get away for a week and a half. We didn’t need any more invitation than that. I messaged Dan’s Mom and asked if they’d be around in Phoenix for a visit. She was recently retired and assured me that yes, they…
Car Week
It is exactly how it sounds. “Car Week” in and around Monterey, California, is a celebration of the automobile.- those that race, those that sell and those that shine. What I love about it is that despite the rarity and eye-boggling price tags of a lot of these cars, no event has a museum vibe….
All Weather Helena
It had been too long between holidays (for us anyway), so as soon as day shift was done, we wanted to venture out. After a sleep-in on Saturday, we opted for a morning of F1 instead. It was the inaugural Miami GP and we couldn’t resist! We managed to fit in all three practice sessions…
Merry Wedding Christmas
Cleo Doesn’t Like Aquaplaning Somehow, we managed to spend the whole day packing and preparing the van. It was our first day under the reign of Max Verstappen as the F1 World Champion. Yesterday, we’d witnessed not only history, but a brilliant end to a season of sport we both love. And, it was raining….