The Begining of the End!

The beginning of the end.  I am feeling like hope is beginning to fade this morning.  I can find nothing anywhere, no sign on web nor land of an auto mobile that runs for sale in my price range.  The game seems to be up.  I have asked everyone I can ask and searched every where.  I have had some amazing experiences on this trip and done a lot of self discovery.  How ever short it has been cut it has still been amazing and I am quite ready to call it a day.  I will get 400 for the van and that is enough to get my feet firmly on U.K soil.  It will be a nice feeling to be able to get me safely home by my own means and not having to borrow money or call up mummy and get her to sort it out.  I think if this really is the end I will begin hitch hiking up north again.  Get back to Calgary where the flights are very cheap and fly back from there.  I have made one last desperate out reach to anyone I might know in the area who might know of a car/van that I can have for 500 but no such luck.  I will wait till the end of the day and see what the emails bring.  Then Its time to start off home.  Although it's not what I want I am still very excited to go home to friends and family and the Mrs.  It has been nearly 7 months since I was at home for longer than a few days!  I am ready for a few home comforts. 

Having had a day spent mainly on Skype and seeing some friendly faces and speaking to some very loved people I am even more excited about the prospect of going home.  Don't get me wrong if I find a car I am straight on that and off to the coast for a swim but if I don't  the alternative is pretty awesome.

Having spent the rest of the day relentlessly searching for anything with wheels that runs and having no luck I decided it was time to cut the cord for sure!  I had asked local car dealers, the owner of Z's (where the van was parked), locals, the petrol station.  Nothing!  So tomorrow I organized the van to be picked up.  A little cleverly in fact.  I arranged one guy to come and collect the van at 12pm.  he was the unreliable guy I had been emailing.  He was offering me 400 but not emailing me back very promptly and was a bit sketchy.  I arranged the other guy, the one who was more reliable to come and collect the van at 1pm he was offering only 300 though.  So if the unreliable guy turns up he has an hour to give me 400 bucks and get out of there and the later guy turns up to nothing and me already out of there!  If the unreliable guys fails to show then I sell it to the reliable guy for 300 and then I'm outer there.  A genius plan.  So being quite satisfied with my level of searching for a car I was ready to retire.  I had tried everything I would have done anything to get some wheels that worked! "Where did you get that?" "Some kid back in town.  Traded it straight up for the van!  I can get 70 miles to the gallon on this hog."  Quite an appropriate quote I feel for how far I was willing to go.  Still never the less it seemed it was not to be.  Unless someone dropped a car in my lap by 1pm tomorrow I was off out of here and hitching back to Calgary!  I retired back to the van for one last time with a movie and some cookies.  Good night.