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the one where maureen learned to drive a landrover


this is just like the ones we drove. same era.
and no... i don't know that girl.

this is a post about when i learned how to drive a land rover defender near the serbian border and how it totally kicked ass.

these are just some of the things we learned how to do in landrovers.


crossing river beds and shit...

and this...


we navigated through 'roads' like this...

civil engineering in many communist eastern europe country's was desgined to isolate people. hairpin turns up steep mountain ranges are still standard fair... our training was supposed to prepare us to take teams of eight into remote villiages tucked away in the albanian alps to do JESUS film showings.

our training took place over a weekend and involved making all these obstacles in river beds and using the diferential and stopping and starting on steep hills. our pit stops included stopping in pastuers that were carpeted by wildflowers. it was incredible.

we also slept in a chicken coop. we eventaully converted it to make it livable to 200 americans. that's a whole nother story.

basically, i felt like a total bad ass the whole time. it was awesome.

addendum...

and we learned how to top off fluids and change tires.