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Why draw attention yourself, or rather, any more than you have to?
I travel a lot and I crave anonymity but 'chacun a son gout'.
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Hi JL,
This is going to be my maiden long overland trip. Hopefully not the last. What I have noticed just driving round the UK is that in a fully kitted out Landy you get attention whatever. I suppose I am thinking, once you're getting those looks, why not draw the sting out of it with some humour.
Also, I am keen to use this as an oppoutnity to raise some funds for charity. I have a guilt gland that works overtime when I let it.
I really don't know my own mind, and with a for and against reply, with each one my gut feeling has swung. I'm not depserate to do it, but at the same time when I think about it it makes me smile.
Still two years to think about it .......
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Any oik who paints his Land Rover purple with black spots deserves a damn good horsewhipping , YE GODS !!
Land Rovers should be painted Bronze Green , just as mother nature and Maurice Wilks intended .
Purple indeed !
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I think that is .....
.........another maybe then ........
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paint job
2 years and all you can think about is the paint job...? In that time you could sell the Landy, work your xxxxcks off to earn enough to buy a TLC, kit it out and then spend less time with a spanner in your hand on your trip...and the money you save on not getting the paint job done could be spent on  , fuel, oil, food etc etc.
You've either got too much time on your hands or you need to get out more. Or both. Or...
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Lack of Oxygen to the Brain
I'm blame it on lack of oxygen to the brain. I'm currently training for the marathon (20 st and 20 fags a day at the beginning of the training), and these long periods of free thinking time, combined with lack of oxygen cause many a strange thought to enter my mind.
The frist one was to drive around the world ...... it all followed from there!
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similar idea starting from NE China
I am in NE China and have thought about the possibility of going all the way to Singapore and trying to be apart of a fund-raiser of sorts for a good cause. Our group has 3 members and I had the thought of traveling the distance but not sure if the plans will hold together or not. If you had a way to start from here, maybe we could 'team up'.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jljones
Why draw attention yourself, or rather, any more than you have to?
I travel a lot and I crave anonymity but 'chacun a son gout'.
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Im'e with Jones'y on this one.
I would rather get from A to B with as few people knowing as possible.
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camouflage?
Food for thought
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there I go again
not too hard really
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Ghastly...
...imho
and not much camouflage...
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and not much camouflage...
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Exactly, your going to stand out anyway, and I understand the thinking of making yourself obvious, but I would prefer to be a little quieter.
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Ahhhh
Ahhhh
An old thread with renewed life it seems. We haven't yet decided to give Dino a lick of paint, maybe we will but as our deparure date starts becomming a reality I reckon we'll keep ourselves worried about other things.
But it's not ruled out yet
Nathan - if you want to drop me a PM we can discuss how our plans might over lap. We're still hoping to go through China.
Cheers
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Personally not keen on "Barnie" - another purple dinosaur. However, any colour is better than mil spec which may cause mis-understandings although most people will check your plates first before considering your lack of taste. :}
Policemen (and women) look out for foriegn plates - wound up muzungu's are always good fishing areas for corruption - and your average African policeman can be the absolute mother of invention when it comes to finding "infractions of the law".
Since your UK plates won't be needed abroad - how about spraying them carmine red and picking out the letters etc in white - it might get mistaken for a foriegn CD plate and all road blocks etc will just wave you through!
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Ollie - what's up with your site, www.jollyfollies.com ?
PS: As you can see I like the Daktari look!
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Jolly Follies is on Holiday
Ahh yes - I came back from holiday yesterday to find the site down. Think I may have to reregister the domain name. have emailed my friend who works for the ISP I got it from and he'll not be in until tomorrow, so maybe we will have it back up and running tomorrow.
Strage how you 'buy' a domain name and then have to re-'buy' it again two years later ... but that's capitalism for ya!
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