End Of An Era, Begining Of A New

Yesterday, my car was officially dead. For those of you who don't know the legend that is my car, it has done over 146,000 miles. Now considering the moon is 225,745 miles away, my waggon has made it over half way. That's pretty fucking awesome. How many things do you own that have travelled that distance? Yeah, didn't think so.

But it's not only the almost terrifying ability of my car to never die, it's the hundreds of memories I have invested in her that make it a very sad occasion, but alas, I am to be out of the country for the next 6 months, and with a recent hole blown in the exhaust timed with MOT expiration, it just makes no sense to pay the best part of £500 nicker to keep the beauty in service.
Please feel free to cry.

So it's the end of an era. The car I learnt to drive in, made my first and many road trips in. The car I crashed for the first time before an A-level biology exam, is to be no more. But as they say, "nein, du kannst nicht macht das mit mein hund!", or for those of you who don't speak a really bad version of German, life goes on.

It goes on a little too quickly, actually, and I find myself in the pant-wetting yet somehow woody-popping situation of being in possession of a multiple destination plane ticket and the next six months off work. Sweet fucking deal. Jealous much?

So here's the deal. I'm going to do my best to use this....urm, violation of a literary effort as a portal for summing up various stages in my travels, as I'm not too fond of doing the whole round-robbin email thing. Although I will probably end up doing that as well*, because I like writing shit, and you love reading shit because, let's face it, you'll have nothing better to do, and reading my inane babblings will buy you 5-10 minutes from your day gig and remind you why you hate your job so much.

Due to Visa and other preparations proving particularly time consuming at this stage I will leave it at this for now. When we get out to India and get a vauge semblance of a plan together I will try and kick this thing into gear. Considering we leave on the 29th, this shouldn't be too long, so hold your horses and.....I dunno, read all the old shit, or something.

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