{"id":1434,"date":"2010-08-13T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darlosworld.co.uk\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2010-08-13T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:08:10","slug":"road-trip-day-one-telford-to-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darlosworld.co.uk\/old-wp\/2010\/08\/13\/road-trip-day-one-telford-to-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip &#8211; Day One &#8211; Telford to Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.jp\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=TF1+6TS&amp;daddr=LS2+9JU&amp;hl=ja&amp;geocode=FWo2JAMdVPzZ_ynZ8z8_kYF6SDG8RTTet1G8hw%3BFegGNQMdPDvo_ylDFwM4qV55SDEp33FF9XG4Ag&amp;mra=ls&amp;doflg=ptk&amp;sll=53.252069,-2.054443&amp;sspn=1.55451,4.938354&amp;brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=53.265213,-1.889648&amp;spn=2.299991,4.669189&amp;z=7&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.jp\/maps?f=d&amp;source=embed&amp;saddr=TF1+6TS&amp;daddr=LS2+9JU&amp;hl=ja&amp;geocode=FWo2JAMdVPzZ_ynZ8z8_kYF6SDG8RTTet1G8hw%3BFegGNQMdPDvo_ylDFwM4qV55SDEp33FF9XG4Ag&amp;mra=ls&amp;doflg=ptk&amp;sll=53.252069,-2.054443&amp;sspn=1.55451,4.938354&amp;brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=53.265213,-1.889648&amp;spn=2.299991,4.669189&amp;z=7\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">\u5927\u304d\u306a\u5730\u56f3\u3067\u898b\u308b<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>With a relatively full tank of petrol I turned out of my road enjoying a slightly jumpy tune on the CD player (thanks to a rather bumpy road), with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Sebastian-Small\/131083340254550?ref=ts\">Sebastian<\/a>, my brothers&#8217; travelling monkey, in the passenger seat.<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i56.photobucket.com\/albums\/g179\/mr_darlington\/Road%20Trip\/Photo0889.jpg\" title=\"photo0889\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting Mileage: 202521<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTo be honest, I was expecting day one to be a doddle, owing to the fact I&#8217;d done this drive between Telford and Leeds many times. I did forget about two little things though: traffic and weather.<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i56.photobucket.com\/albums\/g179\/mr_darlington\/Road%20Trip\/Photo0887.jpg\" title=\"photo0887\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sebastian shows how he intends to drive while I sleep.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe M6 was (as usual) a mass of cars crawling along at slow speeds, but today it was met with horrendous weather. Cars were sliding, horns were blaring, and I didn&#8217;t particularly want to crack on with the motorway, so I left and had a crack at using the Sat-Nav (something I will end up reffering to in this blog as the &#8216;shat-nav&#8217; I guarantee).<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i56.photobucket.com\/albums\/g179\/mr_darlington\/Road%20Trip\/Photo0886.jpg\" title=\"photo0886\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Though he may have a problem when it comes to reaching the pedals.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAfter circling around every part of Manchester a few times I finally made it back to the motorway. By now the weather had cleared up. Before arriving at my destination for the night I stopped in to Ikea for a couple of Hot-Dogs, gotta love em. It&#8217;s going to be a long drive up north to Glasgow tomorrow, so I&#8217;d better try and get to bed early (er than what I have been).<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i56.photobucket.com\/albums\/g179\/mr_darlington\/Road%20Trip\/Photo0891.jpg\" title=\"photo0891\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mileage at the end of Day One: 202663<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1434\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/darlosworld.co.uk\/old-wp\/2010\/08\/13\/road-trip-day-one-telford-to-leeds\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" 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