We went and got her from the port today. She’s got two new and tine scratches on the passenger door — the shipping folks acknowledged that the scratches are new, so we’ll work out something to get her fixed. It’s why we have insurance.

2 x scratches

I was thinking earlier that the arrival of Tess Turbo marks the closure of a pretty good summer of motoring. Since late August, Tess Turbo and I made it through the Nordschleife at the N?rburgring, across the Alps, onto a boat to Baltimore, across America to Kansas City via Hermann, MO, and then on to Augusta (and the welcome arms of M2C2, the Mini Motoring Club of the Carolinas) and the Dragon with the Tar Heel Mini Motoring Club, before heading to HI.

Wow.

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Minis in the Alps

Oh, my God.

Let me start with the obvious statements.

Wow. (Repeat that about 83,000 times)

I?ve driven other (fill in the blank) ? they don?t compare.

These mountains go to 11.

Nomnomnomnom.

4 days, 5 countries, 1742 km / 1082 miles. Google Earth file is here.

Grab a beer, and get comfy — this is a long one.

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We’re back.

Give us some time — we need to download everything and find time to find words to describe our awesome adventure.

My laughing wife

Me and Ken

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