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Driving ever Northward  
   

Driving ever Northward

Once the group reassembled and reboarded our bus James and Mark took us Northward up to the Lake District of England. Along the way most of us caught some shuteye as we travelled through miles and miles of pastureland just like this. Ireland seemed like it was 75% sheepland, the section of Wales we drove through was primarily dedicated to raising sheep and now Northern England was also full of them. It's not like we were eating mutton every night. What are they doing with all these sheep?
Day Six (From Wales to the Lake District to Carlisle)

July 18th 2006
One of the few drawbacks of travelling through an English-speaking country is that the TV news is in English. So first thing in the morning I learned that England was in the midst of an all-time heat wave. Temperatures this coming afternoon were expected to be in the mid 90's. And now we were headed deeper into the world that had no clue what "air conditioning" meant. The Welsh don't seem to ... read more
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