Friday 24th June
After an interesting visit to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax (where there was a Titanic exhibition), a wander around the lovely harbour-front, a tour around the Citadel and an awful lot of people-watching in the public gardens, we decided we'd exhausted all of Halifax's attractions.

We spent the following days organising the shipping of Foxtrot back to the U.K. And made some decisions.

Monday 27th June
After giving it a damned good clean, we dropped off Foxtrot at a cargo place in Dartmouth on the opposite side of the river to Halifax, and flew back to Glasgow (because it was cheaper!) the next day.

Just for the record, we did around 15,800 miles on this trip:
USA - 4213 miles
Mexico - 3989 miles
USA again - 4186 miles
Canada - 3481 miles
and all with only one small leak, and hundreds of unidentified rattling noises.

Over the next few days, we arranged a private "package holiday" to the places we'd missed out on in South America, figuring that this was going to be the easiest route. The countries of Central and South America are just too flaky for us to attempt that trip for a third time. We're persistent but not stupid.

Although we at first thought of it as a failure, and were disappointed we hadn't done the trip under our own steam, we eventually came to the conclusion it was meant to be.

"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."

One of the original triggers for travelling the world, was to see the "Christ the Redeemer" statue in Rio. Well we can finally say we have done that, as well as seeing the magnificent sights of Iguazu Falls in Argentina/Brazil, and the stunning Machu Picchu (Peru). As it was "just a holiday", we haven't included much detail here on this blog but suffice to say we have thousands of photos to pore over in the next few weeks.

And so our around-the-world trip comes to a close, temporarily at least.

Mostly the places left to see are islands and therefore require shipping, which is probably the most expensive and painful part of any adventure travelling.

Although Bob has recently mentioned India on two Enfields - it's not entirely out of the question...