The hunt for red oct..... er... the memory card.

So its been a while since the run, I figured that anyone who is still following the blog might appreciate an update... so I thought it was time to post up what has happened since the run, and where we were going with the car.

With that in mind, the first port of call was to try and locate the missing memory card.

Those of you paying attention will recall that on Day 1 of the scum run, Gregg managed to launch my 16gb SD card into the dashboard, never to be seen again.  Despite a lot of rummaging it didn't appear, so I decided it was time to get down and dirty with the car, and strip it to its nuts and bolts.  To be fair, this task wasn't purely for this reason.  We also needed to give the fairly ropey carpet a clean, and generally organise the cables and the seats a bit better, so we were killing several birds with one stone.

With the carpet removed you can see what an epic mess of cables lie underneath the dashboard and centre console.  To be fair, a lot of it is stock cabling, or at least cabling that was there when we got the car, but our additions for the scumrun were, shall we say, expedient.  So getting back in there with cable ties and wire loom was the order of the day.

The passenger side carpet looks like someone spilled coke, or similar, and let it pool and dry.  Nice.  We attacked it with a hoover, soap, and carpet cleaner.  Then let it all dry out, but it will still need more work in the future.  Its good enough for now tho.

Back to the hunt for the SD card..  Well after ripping out the carpet and scooping up all the crap that had accumulated underneath I actually located the thing.  It had somehow managed to get from the passenger side glove box, all the way through the dashboard, down and under the carpet and finally nestled its way into a nook in the floor by the drivers seat.  No way we would have found that while waiting for the ferry at Dover.  Still that's 70 quid saved..  all in all a good day on the car.

The Route !

After some fumbling with our GPS logging app, I have managed to extract the logged data... below is the full map of our route as recorded via the GreenAlp logger. Enjoy...

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Day 5 : Champagne, Convoy and Calais

The last day, and we awake to glorious sunshine.  The  route today will be pretty much a straight-shot back to Calais, with a minor detour, although we don't quite know where that detour might be.  While waiting for the route cards we cook up a double helping of bacon and dry off the tents ready for the road.

Day 4 : Speed, Secrets, and Smoke

Mornin' chicken...

The morning after the night before...   Surprisingly I managed to get a pretty good nights sleep.  Gregg didn't fare quite as well due to some issues when setting up his tent.  Dampness was substantial, but as the temperature didn't fall too low, it wasn't that bad. 

Day 3 : Guards, Gates, and wild Geese

Last night we (and several other teams) chose to upgrade to a chalet.  The facilities were pretty basic (a bed, basin, radiator, and shared toilet) but afforded us a night of relative comfort and more importantly warmth and quiet.  Camping is ok, but I prefer camping with 4 walls and a bed :)

Day 2 : Bacon, Beurocracy, and Berlin

After a night of light partying and bratwurst, and a relatively good nights sleep, we start the day with bacon rolls.  What more does a growing lad need?  Conveniently the GTO has a nice flat space on the boot exactly the right size for the gas cooker to fit on, so the fry-up was achieved with relative ease.

Well that was fun, lets recap.... Day 1

So, lets go back over the shenanigans shall we... <initiating epic blog post in 3...2...1....>