Road to nowhere

Two weeks before departure and there is still no vehicle. Things are looking pretty bleak for my travels. I had a pretty productive weekend though. I found a suitable Ford Escort on Ebay and promptly began to bid for it with £500 my limit. With 2minutes left I was winning with a measly £255 but expected all the last minute people to jump in and beat me by a couple of quid. So I waited. 1 minute to go the bid goes up to £350 I bid again at £400, the bid rises to £425, I bid £450, the bid rises again to £500, I bid £510 with 4 seconds to go thinking I must have won with such little time left. As it turns out the other chap managed to slip in a higher bid of £520 to win it…..another car escapes.

It was also my last chance to see my parents before departure this weekend (they still don’t know that I’m going, I told them I am package holiday-ing it in Morocco) so we went back down south to Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (The local 'cool kids' call it LA nowadays. It just makes it easier to identify the illiterate school dropouts, when they hang around town with nothing to do but act 'cool'. "yea me geeza, im from LA guv!"). On my visit I remembered an old army surplus store I went to once, near Bognor, I drove over and to my joy found many of the items i've been looking for. Jerri cans, ex-army camping equipment, ex-Swiss army (trangia style) stove, ex-army canvas rucksack and desert boots all for bargain prices. Heloise even managed to pick up a cool camo bag and a canvas tool bag.