Winter sun.

Off to inspect the citrus trees:


By botty1 at 2012-02-20


By botty1 at 2012-02-20

No hat! No one should travel without their hat.

Cool tipi in the background, is it yours?

I'm afraid not. Neither is the truck, although I do have a Ford Model A pickup in England.

Both items were at a roadside citrus fruit stand I visited on a trip to Florida.

Cool truck...

botty, nice sharing I really like your shared images and post. I have great wish to take a truck trip once in my life. Can you tell me which region is best to take this trip in England?

Forrest33 said:

botty, nice sharing I really like your shared images and post. I have great wish to take a truck trip once in my life. Can you tell me which region is best to take this trip in England?

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If you're interested in doing a serious roadtrip over here, you'd realistically be looking at travelling all of England - and likely into Scotland and Wales too. Bear in mind that you can drive the full length of Britain in about a day... John O'Groats to Land's End (or vice versa, South to North) would be a good plan to start with. Stay off the motorways, stick to the A-roads. Also worth considering using a British truck both for ease (a lot of the roads over here are small and tight, and vintage British cars and trucks tend to be 2/3 the size of their US counterparts), and financially (petrol here is expensive. Last I looked, you could run a car that does 10mpg in the US for the same cost as one doing 30+mpg in the UK).

Another option could be to drive round the English coasts - down the West, along the South and back up the East.... with occasional forays inland if you fancy it. Scotland alone has some excellent driving territories for vintage vehicles, and is much smaller than England if you have limited time.

Forrest33 said:

botty, nice sharing I really like your shared images and post. I have great wish to take a truck trip once in my life. Can you tell me which region is best to take this trip in England?

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Ditto Edward,

For me it has to be SW Cornwall and Devon, follow the coast, St Ives to Lands End and around the Lizard, plenty on cliffs and crashing waves. For the SE Again the coast around Sussex and North Norfolk, rather flat landscape but sort of left in the 50's. NE the dales of Yorkshire have hills and valleys. Smaller version are the Cotswolds around the midlands. anywhere in Scotland is nice, further North less traffic,

Avoid July and August as they are the main school hols and as Edward has said there are some narrow roads in the UK with no ability to U turn. Motorways are dull and congested so follow smaller roads.

A historical sites you have to pay for parking and on National Trust parking too, I spent about £40 In a week in Dorset about 8 years ago, most expensive parking I have come across.


Depends on what you like so research the web and the county tourist sites for a better understanding.

DIstance London to Inverness about 13 hrs! London to Lizard, Cornwall about 6 Hrs depending. London - Wales (Pembrokeshire) 4 hrs,

Sure you will have a good time where ever you travel.

Botty???? You appear to be having a grand time. Good for you!

Well Done!!!

TomS said:

Cool truck...

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52 Studebaker