Road Trip!

So, it's only three weeks and one day until the Boy Wonder and I skip the country to travel the US and enjoy all the southern hospitality our cholestorol levels can handle. We began our planning process by booking flights to NY which was fine, and we thought we could fly down to New Orleans, buy a car and carry on our trip up the Mississippi towards Chicago. Then we decided that it might be more fun to buy a car in NY and drive down to New Orleans. Then we realised that it was ridiculously hard to buy a car in the US without an address to register it to and that insurance is similarly hard to come-by but also extortionately expensive, because even though we can both prove that we have clean UK driving records, US insurance would be offered to us on the basis that we have no driving history. So, we are now in the process of working out how much it will cost us to ship our car, the Popemobile, to the US, driving it around amongst monsters three times its size, and then shipping it back, which seems to be a pretty convulted way of getting a bargain, but nonetheless we are undeterred and will continue to try to beg and plead with various institutions in the hope that they will succumb to our charms and offer us insurance which won't eat up our entire budget! So, as the designated home worker, the Boy Wonder has been valiantly ringing the US for the last week in an attempt to make some sense of the needlessly confusing process which seems designed to prevent us from doing what on the face of it seems simple. At least we won't be homesick for red tape...