http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog The unnofficial blog of Team Latittude by Seb Vincent. Team Latitude are proudly sponsored by Landrover and RGS Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:34:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Newfoundland turned out to be beautiful. We drove northwards as the day broke, and the shadows looming to our right revealed themselves as gorse-covered rocky hills. Intermittent sun made the golden leaves glow in the trees and as we closed in on 50 degrees the landscape frequently opened ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/11/?y%/to-the-end/% The next morning we headed down to the Land Rover dealership to see if they could fix our Landy but they don't sell any diesels over here so they identified the problem with their diagnostic computer as errors "22187" and "56825", but apart from that couldn't help much. So ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/10/?y%/the-strangest-accent-in-the-world/% After waking up in our free hotel room we had to leave early and find somewhere to eat breakfast. I think we must be the only people in history to stay in a $300 hotel room and then cook porridge in the car park. It was really cold though so ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/10/?y%/flat-out-in-the-flatlands/% We headed up to Whistler for a few days with some friends from Andrew’s work and stayed at the Westlunds’ lovely condo not far from town. We had a good couple of days there, climbing up a mountain to admire the view and having a few beers at the top. ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/10/?y%/the-freedom-of-the-rocky-mountains/% We’re back on the road at last, after nearly two months of shipping Roxy and getting her fixed. We went up to the Westlund’s cabin in the mountains last weekend to chop wood for the winter with the family. We had a great weekend staying in a lovely cabin right by ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/10/?y%/leaving-vancouver/% Since winning this bursary we have often been accused of being lucky (sometimes not so politely!), and we have generally stuck to our guns and replied that you make your own luck.  I'm beginning to think we're lucky. We made it to Vancouver without being decapitated (these things happen on the ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/10/?y%/382/% As it turned out, Pete and I only had a single day's delay in Taiwan, and disappointingly it was largely spent at the airport.  The airline put us up in a hotel for the night though, and we managed to hone our table tennis skills for a couple of hours ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/09/?y%/two-go-sidewaysand-up-a-bit/% The Japanese leg of our journey is now over.  Pete and I got flights out of Nagoya this morning after a final week packed with work and play, and small triumphs like decyphering the TV remote so we were able to switch language and see half an episode of House!  ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/09/?y%/lost-in-transfer/% I know this blog entry has been a long time coming, and sorry about that, but in terms of travel you haven't missed anything; we're still in Nagoya.  The process of shipping a vehicle takes a bit longer than just the time for the crossing, and we hadn't really taken ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/09/?y%/pitstop-japan/% Following the many responses to previous entries, this post has been given a guidance rating; it contains direct references to ridiculous ginger neck-beard that most people should find disturbing. The Japanese leg of the expedition has always had a strange status in our plans, since it`s the only country we are ... http://threegosideways.co.uk/blog/2008/08/?y%/were-only-here-for-the-beards/%