So I have had this idea kicking around for a while, ideally over a week in June for my birthday. 

It would be a John O' Groats to Lands End road trip, but visiting the REOs and members along the way. Each section of the route would be planned by different people i.e a northern Scottish owner would know the local roads and plan A to B for us, then a southern Scottish owner would plan B to C and so on working our way down the country. The fun would be that some people would do the whole trip, while others that couldn't would join us for a day/morning/afternoon drive. We could have lunches along the route at places to have "mini meets". We would stay in hotels along the route. I had in mind:

John O'Groats to Oban = 220 miles

Oban to Keswick = 225 miles (Would like to detour via Stranraer to see if we can get some of the Northern Ireland and Ireland guys over to meet us)

Keswick to Snowdon = 200 miles

Snowdon to Bristol via Brecon Beacons = 200 miles (we could have a mini meet at Jimmers?)

Bristol to Lands End = 200 miles

All mileage would change depending on the routes planned, but I don't think we would be driving more than 4-5 hours each day with stop offs of course. It would be 4 nights plus the nights either side to get to the start point and home after the finish point. I think it would be great fun to meet all the members that struggle to get to meetings and they will have local knowledge of the areas we would drive through to make the route/roads more fun and of course we get to drive our zeds!

Let me know if you are interested in either taking part or planning part of the route!

Well done that’s some trip?

1 hour ago, arthur said:

Well done that’s some trip?

It's 2300miles for me! 

A well earned beer after 265 miles

 

3 hours ago, TheRealNips said:

It's 2300miles for me! 

A well earned beer after 265 miles

 

Dont tell me you are that well organised you will be due your oil change when you get to powered?

10 hours ago, A 2X OK said:

Dont tell me you are that well organised you will be due your oil change when you get to powered?

I would love Jim to do that, but it's hard getting hold of him!

Stirling to Wick today. 260 miles of A9. Rain forecast but won't damped spirits!

Made it to Inverness!

Had a lovely drive up today, stopped at pitlochry for a coffee and a visit to the dam. Then up the A9 with cruise control steady at 60mph (average speed cameras all of the way) to Inverness. Had a walk around and a cheeky double cheese burger for lunch. Then the last 100miles up to Wick. The A99 is a fantastic road and when we got past the final campervan, it got even better! Affs car corners like it's on rails, mine just about keeps up but liked to wag its tail and Simon on his Ducati had great fun!

Day 4 (for me) today... 18miles to John o groats for photos, the along part of the Scottish 500route to Ullapool. Then down to loch Ness, through fort Augustus to fort William. A nice mixture of A roads, B roads and some single track. Please find attached a nice picture of the ladies sleeping....

If you saw someone on a white motorbike waving at you, then that was my brother, as i told him to look out for you while he is up there doing the nc500 and he saw a red zed on its own. 

Day 5 - 270 miles. Fort William to the Lake District via Glencoe and Troon. Last night we stayed in a log cabin which was very cool! Aff saw Craig's brother yesterday and waved back!

See you all soon, busy street this morning, hope you will all get parked.

2 hours ago, TheRealNips said:

 Aff saw Craig's brother yesterday and waved back!

haha, nice one, will let him know he got a hit.

 

I just couldn't get this week off to join you unfortunately ? 

Guess who we are with!

Day 6 (235 miles) Great Langdale to Barmouth via Wrynose & Hardknott passes, North Wales expressway and Snowdon.

All going well so far, just over half way for the John o groats to lands end mileage, two thirds for total mileage for whole trip. 

Cars are driving like dreams. Yesterday while stuck at temporary traffic lights, Aff and I pretended to be motorbikes and reved our engines a few times, making everyone in the queue start looking! We have had some much attend, almost everywherr we park up someone comes to have a chat with us. They are getting dirty (which is playing with mine and Affs OCD) but it's a badge of honour and will not be washed until we get home!

Didn't look that dirty when parked up at my house.

Couple of pictures from Wrynose and Hardknott...

Couple of pictures from Wrynose and Hardknott...

Made to Barmouth! 

Rest time for the ladies...

 

And rest time for us!

Made it all the way down under !

18 minutes ago, JaiKai said:

Made it all the way down under !

Any chance you can flip it? It won't seem to do it for me?!

Thanks Lee!

Day 7 (225miles) Barmouth to Clutton via the Brecon beacons. We were talking last night that today is the penultimate day, we have all enjoyed this trip and that it's a shame it's almost over! 

In other news my car reached an important milestone on the M6 yesterday:

Made it to Clutton! 

Guess who we saw today!

Airbnb is amazing

And the girls are sleeping and a bit dirty ?

 

Day 8 (240 miles) = last day for us if you don't include driving home tomorrow. We are in Clutton just south of Bristol, going to head through Cheddar and the along the North Devon and Cornish coast to lands end. 

It is a glorious morning, the cars decided that they wanted to talk face to face last night...

We made it!