When deciding to purchase another vehicle, ie. the Landcruiser, I admit I was of two minds. In many respects it would be great to have a car, but we've done just fine so far with only a motorbike.

And then there's the extra maintenance, what if the car is unreliable?

Well during the course of this diary the car has indeed been quite unreliable. Fortunately I've been able to deal with all but one of the problems, and the other was cheap to have fixed.

But the more things you have, the more things can give you grief.

Time will tell if it was a good idea, meanwhile I'm glad I don't have to ride 30k on a rough dirt road carrying a week's supplies, laptop computer, and camera equipment, on my motorbike.

I've been noticing an increase in acronyms lately, and it leads me to ask "What is becoming of the English language?"

In fact I believe it is such a problem that I've formed an action group to help stamp out acronyms.

I originally named the group the Society to Help Eradicate the Ridiculous Proliferation of Acronyms, but that was too much of a mouthful, so now I just refer to it as SHERPA.

If you want to help this worthy cause please get in touch.

Till next time then, and remember,

don't dream it, be it!