So I've had a fun couple of days. We arrived in Murry on Sunday morning after a 4hr journey and a pancake breakfast that I was pretty much sure was going to kill me. We had a relaxing day and met our host in the evening. I was staying with Charles and Mary, and their son Jeff. They lived on a large farm in Tennessee, just over the boarder from here in Murray.
On Sunday Charles and I went and did our own thing away from the girls, they were keen to give me a little bloke time. Charles has a four seater plane with his own hanger and runway, he took me for a fly. Which was awesome. I never thought I would be able to fly a plane but I took the controls for a couple of minutes, unfortunately my camera ran out of battery when I was at the helm.
On Monday I joined the girls again for a trip round Murray, we went to a potter, Wayne Bates www.waynebates.com. He gave us a choice of a free plate paid for by the Rotary Club, which was unexpected and really generous.
At night we had a bbq and a short extract of Pete Lancaster's one man show on Teddy Roosevelt, it was very entertaining. A night I went back to the farm and got to drive Jeff's Ford Mustang down the runway, this was a lot of fun as I love fast cars but have never had the opportunity to drive one, let alone on a private runway.
I have really enjoyed it here, and probably made a few people a little jealous. Excellent.
Tom
Call that fun you want to try driving a mercedes sprinter high top van to skeggy following a load of unfit cyclists on a charity bike ride!
ReplyDeleteSomehow I think driving the old vauxhall around the streets of sunny leicestershire might have lost its appeal