October 2011 - Royal Automobile Club
October 2011 - Royal Automobile Club
October 2011 - Royal Automobile Club
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The<br />
Bristol<br />
Diaries<br />
Precipitous roads, failed border crossings<br />
and police encounters: all par for the course<br />
on an impromptu round the world road trip.<br />
<strong>Club</strong> member Geoffrey Herdman tells all...<br />
Having hung up our respective quill and<br />
abacus on 30 June 2010, my wife Hilary<br />
and I had the dilemma of either holding<br />
heated discussions about who made the<br />
early morning tea, or driving round the world. Thus it<br />
was that just under three weeks later we found ourselves<br />
heading North from Key West, the most Southerly point<br />
of the mainland USA in 10DPG.<br />
The idea was to make a horseshoe round North<br />
America, driving up the East coast to Halifax, crossing<br />
Canada, and heading South down the West coast. This<br />
to be followed by a couple of months in South America,<br />
and two or three months in Australia, before shipping<br />
the car to Jordan for the journey home.<br />
10DPG is a 1956 Bristol 405 Drophead, number 29<br />
out of 42. Being nominally a four seater, albeit a<br />
draughty one for the rear passengers, we can carry a<br />
prodigious amount of luggage, which includes eight<br />
64 <strong>October</strong> <strong>2011</strong> | Issue 136
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