well I am sorry to say that despite all my natural and logical thoughts this car has an entity of its own this must be a relationship to Herbie the love bug because it has a mind of its own
take yesterday, we were off roading bouncing down what was the road and she he it prefomed faultlessly, trust me i have never driven anything in the manner we had to too get pass some of the problems. yet faultless.
we got on a bette but still rough road and she stopped, I will not go into it too much but neil and i had to resolve a problem and Katie stopped dead, so we as we do get out the kettle, its much like the morecome and wise sketch were they prepare breakfast, without a word being spoken. we resolved the problem and hey ho Katie started and ran perfect for MOST of the rest of the day.
we has come to one of those descion making points whether to stop at Aral or go on for another 100 miles to where the space centre is, it was not an easy decsion and we were both discussing the pro and cons of either option and still had not actallu decided when we stopped just outside Aral for fuel. I will try and tell you more about this later, but lets just say at the current time despite there being a line of lorries waiting for fuel, the garage was closed, only for 5 minutes we were told three time five minutes apart. so we said in the normal manner bollocks we will go somewhere else. as we pulled out of the fuel station depsite there being a 1/4 of a tank left Katie started her antics again and even I could not coax her any futher she would start and tick over like a dream but try and pull away and she, like a stubbern mule would have none of it, until we made the descion to stay the night in a hotel that we could see, ok i admit we did put another 5 litres of fuel and off she trotted like a goodone to park up outside the hotel engine purring.
I will try and add my thoughts on putting reality to this but at the moment Katie is the Korean cousin of Herbie and has a mind of her own.
take yesterday, we were off roading bouncing down what was the road and she he it prefomed faultlessly, trust me i have never driven anything in the manner we had to too get pass some of the problems. yet faultless.
we got on a bette but still rough road and she stopped, I will not go into it too much but neil and i had to resolve a problem and Katie stopped dead, so we as we do get out the kettle, its much like the morecome and wise sketch were they prepare breakfast, without a word being spoken. we resolved the problem and hey ho Katie started and ran perfect for MOST of the rest of the day.
we has come to one of those descion making points whether to stop at Aral or go on for another 100 miles to where the space centre is, it was not an easy decsion and we were both discussing the pro and cons of either option and still had not actallu decided when we stopped just outside Aral for fuel. I will try and tell you more about this later, but lets just say at the current time despite there being a line of lorries waiting for fuel, the garage was closed, only for 5 minutes we were told three time five minutes apart. so we said in the normal manner bollocks we will go somewhere else. as we pulled out of the fuel station depsite there being a 1/4 of a tank left Katie started her antics again and even I could not coax her any futher she would start and tick over like a dream but try and pull away and she, like a stubbern mule would have none of it, until we made the descion to stay the night in a hotel that we could see, ok i admit we did put another 5 litres of fuel and off she trotted like a goodone to park up outside the hotel engine purring.
I will try and add my thoughts on putting reality to this but at the moment Katie is the Korean cousin of Herbie and has a mind of her own.
It sounds and looks like you are having to suffer the greatest privations and personal fatigues but nevertheless enjoying yourselves. What a fantastic experience; in a way I envy you.
ReplyDeleteI have just had my application for unpaid leave turned down but still hope to go to India if the trip is on. Good luck for the remainder of your journey.