No credit cards, no extra cash... NO FUCKUPS!

You will have to pardon me for the harsh language in the title of this post, but it is true. After realizing what we are about to do, we have started getting a little err... antsy? It has occurred to us what we are actually about to attempt. We figured out that if we never drove Morris at all we could have already gone to Mexico and back no problem... But we also have put 5000 KM on Morris over the course of 5 months... we are going to attempt to do the same distance in 9 days!

Now, I don't remember reading anything in Steve's last post about our CV problem, well... Our passenger CV decided to shit the bed and so we went on another epic journey to the land of busted up cars. Long story short, we had to find a replacement CV joint, and they no longer make replacement bits for a Nissan Micra, so off we went. After fighting with the stupid nut that holds the hub on the axle, we applied some penetrant and I torqued it off with the exhaust from a Honda Civic CRX. Removing the axle was a breeze, you literally just pull it off, do that in reverse to install it and you're done.

It is really starting to sink in for me that we are actually attempting what can only be called a "stunt". Why are we doing this? How did the whole idea come about? Why aren't we just using the Toyota? We are about to leave our nice safe country and travel to a set of countries where our civil rights no longer exist! We simply may very well just not make it back... Maybe only Morris will not make it back... Maybe Morris will make it back. I personally hope he does because I want to take him on at least one rally. The only good thing I can think of that will relieve this stress is the fact that I can get a case of beer at the 7-11 for like 9 dollars, any time of day!

-Mitch