Built like a Mercedes 3681

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:37:05 +0000, Pooh Bear

Like I said - Britts don't know what a "long drive" is. Many Canadians and Americans routinely drive 300 miles each way weekends to their "vacation homes". A "holiday drive" of 1500 miles is not at all out of the ordinary, one summer we did a small circuit of Ontario - never left the province, and never retraced our steps - and put on 1500 miles in 10 days- while spending 2 days at each of 2 parks, and 3 days at the third, as well as visiting several tourist spots as "day users". All towing a camping trailer. Just this past weekend we drove about 180 miles to a friend's cottage - and got snowed in (about 2 feet of snow where we were, basically overnight - 2 1-2 feet a few miles south) and we just managed to get home this afternoon. One stretch of road was about 40 miles without a bend, and most of the way you could not see the road or anything less than 6 feet above the ground. Spent 40 minutes digging out when we misjudged the location of the road and ended up, while still on the road, stuck in snow higher than the "bonnet". No 4 wheel drive, no truck. Just a little Camry.