Last day in the USA today.
As the person I was staying with had a very early start , I also had a sharp start. I only had about 70 miles to drive today and as I started at 8 am and as my flight from Boston is not until 9.15 pm I have had quite a lot of time to use up. I decided to go cross country, instead of taking a major road and this has proved to be very good in the times I have done it over the last few weeks, today was no exception.
Quite a poor breakfast on the way, one of the worst I have had so far. I have usually done very well with diners this was applying however you take the rough with the smooth. However opposite the diner was a clock shop so I spent a pleasant 30 mins talking clocks, running a clock business and general trade with a fellow clockmaker, it was a good conversation, we both have similar issues with customers.
I also passed a small garage and inside were two series two land rovers, this resulted in a u turn and another chat with the owner the garage specialise in British cars and had apart from a few land rovers, jags and rollers and de-lorian which did look a bit sad.
I spent an hour wandering around a Mall, on the edge of Boston what a horrid place that was.
I got to the airport at about 3pm far too early but there was not much I could do about it. I handed the car back to Alamo without a scratch, a dent, a scrape, or a ding, which I think is pretty good for over 6000 miles on the wrong side of the road with an automatic car.
After I got to the terminal I realised I was shaking with released stress after giving the car back, which was a bit of a surprise. Now I have a few hours wait, until I fly back courtesy British Airways to Heathrow.
I am perhaps too wound up to write much more. Perhaps I need a small snack.......
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