We’ve now covered close to 2000 miles during our first two months on the road.

It seems timely to have a short rant about petrol prices given the current panic buying of fuel due to apparent shortages caused by striking tanker drivers. Yesterday we came dangerously close to getting stranded on the A1 while it took us four attempts to find a garage between Peterborough and Huntingdon that had diesel available.

Since budgeting this road trip in September 2007 fuel prices have risen by nearly 50% from £0.95/litre last September to a high of £1.35/litre today. Fingers crossed prices don’t continue to surge, otherwise we’ll have to resort to converting the motorhome to run on vegetable oil!

By the way, we’ll be working out our carbon footprint at the end of the journey and doing our bit to offset.

 

Staying with numbers, I have to admit I’ve got a strange fascination with clocks and speedometers! There can be something quite beautiful about the order of numbers. Hence why I got quite excited this morning when I noticed the speedo had reached 44,444 miles.

nb. Before I’m prosecuted for taking my hands off the wheel when driving, I took this picture while Sarah was driving!

 

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