Tuesday 31 July 2007

Its a bit fishy round 'ere

Ha haaaa... we be in Cape Cod! Right at the end of the land bit, a nice town called Provincetown. It's a bit like Brighton, but with New England style houses.
So, today we popped into the Land Rover dealer at Cape Cod. Charlie, having had his gearbox replaced just before we left and now having covered just over a thousand miles was due a gearbox oil change. The chaps at the dealership were amazed. Most had never seen a real live 110, let alone a Camel, so after lots of picture taking, they finally got on with the wrong job... they changed the engine oil, D'oh! No worries, I pointed out that it was the gearbox oil we wanted changed and they jumped into action again, but this time without the photo session.


We also popped into a bike shop near a place called Mashpee (tee hee... I love that name!!). Here I found a lovely bike for me, and Jen ordered the bike she has been after. With the exchange rates the way they are at the moment, we have both managed to get excellent bikes for a lot less than the UK value. Only trouble is, the brakes are round the wrong way... I tried to pull a skid and nearly flew over the handlebars instead. LOL.

So we are here in Provicetown (where the pilgrims first landed) at the Dunes Edge camp site, until tomorrow afternoon when Jens bike should be ready. In the meantime, she's gotta ride my old boneshaker. We are planning on taking in some of the dunes here in the morning before heading back towards the mainland.


The last couple of nights we have spent at State Park camsites. These vary in quality but are remarkably cheap, about £7-£8 per night. The private camp sites like this one here are a little more pricey... about £15 - £20... and they charge you a quarter for 3 minutes in the shower. Back to the State Parks tomorrow then ;-)

Gotta go, the midgeys are lunching on me big style despite the jungle formula insect repellant and Jen is giving me "eyes" 'cos I'm using the lappy!

Night night everybody :-)

7 comments:

The Farter said...

If land rover dont know the difference between gerabox and engine, how the hell did they get to Iraq???

Capt Beaver said...

Excellent news about the bikes Dan,will you be as daring as on the old boneshaker?Me and terry have just got back from a good hard ride in the forest!!Take care,see you in the woods in the new year x

Unknown said...

Glad to see your both are having a superb time!! :)
Love From Mumsy .. Soppy eh?
Looking forward to reading more about your travels.

Anonymous said...

Hey Guys, we're glad you're finally on the road and Charlie is safe & sound :-) Hope you guys are having a wicked time. We hear bear wrestling is great fun :-)

Margery said...

Hope they didn't charge you for the engine oil change!
Sounds like Charlie really caused a stir :-)
Dan - helmets won't help if your riding in flip flops ! - you're still going to fall off!!
By the way, you could always swap the brake cables over....;-)

madjeff said...

i see no pictres of jeff. Have you buried her under a deck( american for patio) . If I don't see her soon, I'm in touch with the FBI.
mother
xxxxx

madjeff said...

lets see jeff!
fed up with pictures of mad son number one.
mother
xxxx