On a visit to Peggy’s Cove, I spotted a Land Rover with British plates. In all my years in Canada it was the first time I had seen a vehicle with a British registration. What got me very interested were all the place name stickers on the rear of the vehicle. They were from practically every country on the African continent, Egypt in the north all the way down to South Africa. In addition to those, there were other location stickers from Chile in South America all the way up to the Canadian Arctic.
Seeing
these got me a little curious, excited and definately in need of a chat with whoever was driving this
vehicle. So in the company of a pleasant view of the sea, I hung around the car park for the longest time,
but with much disappointment nobody came by to collect the Land Rover.
The
day after while driving around Lunenburg, I again spotted the Land Rover and followed it until it finally stopped. In pouring rain I ran over and had a
great chat with Bill and Rosemary from Kent in England. They were a retired
couple probably in their mid-60’s who had sold their house and decided to take
up a life of travel with “Moby the Land Rover”. In previous years they had done
all of Europe, most African countries and during the last three years had been
doing the American continent. When I met them, they were down to the last part of
the America’s trip heading off to Newfoundland to put Moby on a boat for
England.
I
had a lovely and extremely enjoyable chat with Bill and Rosemary and also got to
see a little more of Moby. I asked them what their future plans were, and with a sparkle
in his eye and a smile on his face Bill replied ~ “India” …
By
the time I left them, the rain had thoroughly soaked me, but I was certainly delighted to have been given a brief insight into some of their travelling experiences, together with their enormous
thrust for adventure. I was truly impressed with Bill, Rosemary and Moby.
A
link to their web-site ~ https://latinamericaroadtrip.wordpress.com/about-us/
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