Driving Overseas

The final tally is just over 11,000 kms on foreign roads in 6 different motor vehicles
- A Dodge Van in LA
- A Chrysler Town & Country in Orlando
- A Mazda MPV in Virginia
- A Ford F350 29 foot motorhome (5,600kms) in the USA (South to North on the East Coast)
- A Volkswagon Sharon in the Cottswolds
- A Fiat Dethleffs Motor home (4,003kms) in Europe (Germany, France, Luxemburg, Spain)

How many incidents?

We nearly took out a Pheasant in the Volkswagon & a motorcyclist in the Fiat. We did however massacre countless thousands of bugs on our windscreen. One cracked blinker on the Fiat thanks to European style bumper parking – why do they do that?

How much petrol?

Too much, our environmental footprint is now the size of a small African nation!

How many navigational issues?

Not as many as it could have been. The invention of the GPS has saved countless marriages around the world now including ours.

How many Tolls?

Way too many, especially in France. However at least the French charge to use really good roads with high speed limits whereas the Americans only ever charge for really narrow, poorly kept, unpleasant windy roads that make you question every mile of the charge.

Now all I have to do is get used to driving on the other side of the road back home.

Michael