{"id":1362,"date":"2024-06-17T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2024-06-17T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:29:19","slug":"he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/2024\/06\/17\/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"He ain\u2019t heavy he\u2019s my brother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So you can\u2019t do a 5 week trip like this without talking about your \u201cpartner\u201d on the trip<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stuart has been amazing.   Firstly there are probably only a handful of people I know who could live with my driving without once ( externally) getting mad with me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve learnt a lot about each other and we learnt to adjust to each other personalities and strengths ( we\u2019ve ignore the weaknesses \ud83d\ude1c)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is very calm when things gets stressful which is great as I am not !  The Italian in me comes out with lots of words and arm raising <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However he\u2019s not perfect As an anecdote he can lose his tempter when technology doesn\u2019t work which clearly happened a lot on these travels in parts of the world less developed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More importantly we have never been seriously lost which is pretty key skill for navigator.     We\u2019ve got better as the rally gone on I think but the  breakdowns in Kazakhstan cost us dear <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s bled the clutch at the side of the road , maintained the car daily and replaced broken engine mount. Just a mechanic in disguise as my brother when he\u2019s not navigating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite story is when we\u2019ve broken down ( again) in the Kazakhstan desert and the sweeps are fixing the broken bolt.    They are chatting away to to each other and I can see Stuart listening very very closely but looking more and more confused.    It all made sense to him when I told him they were speaking Welsh!   \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"739\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4651-1-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4651-1-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4651-1-980x707.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4651-1-480x346.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roadside repairs <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4647-1-806x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1429\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chow time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4644-1-1024x728.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4644-1-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4644-1-980x696.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4644-1-480x341.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sightseeing <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4649-1-781x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1431\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some days it\u2019s too much \ud83d\ude0e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4646-1-794x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1432\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maintenance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4653-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4653-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4653-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">His office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4648-1-1024x745.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4648-1-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4648-1-980x713.jpg 980w, https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4648-1-480x349.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_4673-1-793x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1515\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Back up driver too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you can\u2019t do a 5 week trip like this without talking about your \u201cpartner\u201d on the trip Stuart has been amazing. Firstly there are probably only a handful of people I know who could live with my driving without once ( externally) getting mad with me We\u2019ve learnt a lot about each other and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henshall.com\/p2p2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}