music and beer.

My little car/van in Australia had a CD player but some divot had jammed a CD in there so all my carefully selected music could not be played. I had high hopes with the newer van in New Zealand but it was not to be, the van was a grey import from Japan and did not have a CD player, imagine my joy when I found the all important little player smiling at me from the dash of my latest hire car I selected a disc at random and guess what the track was..............Letter From America by the Proclaimers (who by the way are appearing later this year at Venue Cymru). Unfortunately that is the best thing about my latest ripoff hire car, the cheeky rep tried to get me to upgrade to a 4 wheel drive when that was what I had already booked and paid for, I ended up with a Kia Sportage all wheel drive which is a bit of a modern bubble car with a stupidly huge engine that just about manages 30 mpg so it is a good job petrol is only £2.00 per gallon, it does have a reversing camera so I will be annoying the locals by reversing whenever possible.
I am slumming it in motels on this part of the trip to keep costs down, I had a shock after booking in tonight here in Blanding Utah, I went looking for essential supplies but the girl in the supermarket told me that this is a dry town - no alcohol for sale!! I scooted the 20 miles up to the next town which had a liquor store for serious drinkers, bottles of spirits only, then after enquiring I found Mavericks a place that sells junk food and beer but no wine. I know Utah is where the Mormons established themselves but I did not expect such discrimination against us socialites, looks like I won't be meeting the locals over a drink in the neighbourhood saloon here.