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The Bristol Diaries Precipitous roads, failed border crossings and police encounters: all par for the course on an impromptu round the world road trip. Club member Geoffrey Herdman tells all... Having hung up our respective quill and abacus on 30 June 2010, my wife Hilary and I had the dilemma of either holding heated discussions about who made the early morning tea, or driving round the world. Thus it was that just under three weeks later we found ourselves heading North from Key West, the most Southerly point of the mainland USA in 10DPG. The idea was to make a horseshoe round North America, driving up the East coast to Halifax, crossing Canada, and heading South down the West coast. This to be followed by a couple of months in South America, and two or three months in Australia, before shipping the car to Jordan for the journey home. 10DPG is a 1956 Bristol 405 Drophead, number 29 out of 42. Being nominally a four seater, albeit a draughty one for the rear passengers, we can carry a prodigious amount of luggage, which includes eight 64 October 2011 | Issue 136
‘300,000 brits come to mexico every year. we only send about 80 back in boxes.’ Club Adventure October 2011 | Issue 136 | 65
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