Final, final preparations!

Yep, I picked today of all days to decide that we do in fact need new tyres :-)

Key factors contributing to this decision:

• it's now snowing in the Pyrenees and raining either side of them
• we want to take the cross-Atlas route to Marakech, which has corners
• the gradual realisation that 4000 miles on crap roads with even crapper tyres is asking for trouble.

Made an abortive trip to Costco today, the new plan is to get a new set of tyres in Bilbao (they should be cheaper in Spain anyway...)

Managed to get the replacement air filter and repair the air intake, I still intend to make a snorkel for the car before we reach the desert but I don't have time to do it before we leave. So I'll take the bits and do it in a carpark somewhere in Spain or Morocco, most likely.

Oh, and the big disappointment of the day: my dixie-tunes "Dukes of Hazzard" airhorn is not working, after I fed the compressor 24v instead of 12v. Will take it apart tomorrow and see if it can be fixed.

We DO finally have music in the car, though, but only through one speaker for now. Tomorrow might well be quite a busy day.

Merry Christmas, everyone! :-)