Tor
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Inspired by Quagmire's trip to the Dales, I recall my winter-holiday journey in my first P6B in 1998 with two friends while studying in Cape Town. It's a bit far-out looking back at it. It's a whole other situation in SA. Distances are massive but roads are fabulous if dangerous at times.
We covered 4500 kms in ten days, achieving 26 mpg in an auto usually doing 110 kmh. It was fantastic, except when we broke down in stabby Hillbrow, Jhb. on a Saturday night and when some street kids snatched my cassette tapes out through the quarterlight in Maputo with me in the car. Oh, the fuel pump also gave up and I had a noisy electric one plumbed in at a service station near Nelspruit having crossed the border from Mozambique. Yeah, they had one lying around.
We carried a spare wheel and a tool kit. And oodles of youthful optimism.
We covered 4500 kms in ten days, achieving 26 mpg in an auto usually doing 110 kmh. It was fantastic, except when we broke down in stabby Hillbrow, Jhb. on a Saturday night and when some street kids snatched my cassette tapes out through the quarterlight in Maputo with me in the car. Oh, the fuel pump also gave up and I had a noisy electric one plumbed in at a service station near Nelspruit having crossed the border from Mozambique. Yeah, they had one lying around.
We carried a spare wheel and a tool kit. And oodles of youthful optimism.
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