A recent incident got me thinking about the capabilities of my wife to drive out of the areas we often go if something happened to me.
Being the driving nazi that I am I do 99% of the driving on road if we're travelling together and all the off-road work, I still have trouble getting her to stay in the truck if she thinks there is a possibility of roll over/ getting stuck against a tree/ bogged in water etc.
Back to the incident, the guy's partner didn't even know how to drive the manual vehicle they were travelling in, the guy took a tumble walking across some rocks and ended up with a busted leg and dislocated sholder... no more than 50kms from the local hospital but might as well been on the other side of the moon with both of them unable to drive the vehicle and bad phone reception. The only luck they had was the rock that she went to out of their campsite to have a good cry over their predicament was in a very slim corridor of scratchy phone reception and she was able to get a message to the authorities to raise the alarm.
A lot of heart ache, worry and potential disaster could have averted with a weekend of basic 4X4 training.
We have decided that my wife will be on the next course available to us that I'm not instructing to bring her skills up to a level where we are both comfortable, one of the reasons I want her to take the course with another instructor so we don't have the marriage wrecking "But you said..." "but I mean't..." heated discussions around a smoldering, sinking, upside down Prado...
Being the driving nazi that I am I do 99% of the driving on road if we're travelling together and all the off-road work, I still have trouble getting her to stay in the truck if she thinks there is a possibility of roll over/ getting stuck against a tree/ bogged in water etc.
Back to the incident, the guy's partner didn't even know how to drive the manual vehicle they were travelling in, the guy took a tumble walking across some rocks and ended up with a busted leg and dislocated sholder... no more than 50kms from the local hospital but might as well been on the other side of the moon with both of them unable to drive the vehicle and bad phone reception. The only luck they had was the rock that she went to out of their campsite to have a good cry over their predicament was in a very slim corridor of scratchy phone reception and she was able to get a message to the authorities to raise the alarm.
A lot of heart ache, worry and potential disaster could have averted with a weekend of basic 4X4 training.
We have decided that my wife will be on the next course available to us that I'm not instructing to bring her skills up to a level where we are both comfortable, one of the reasons I want her to take the course with another instructor so we don't have the marriage wrecking "But you said..." "but I mean't..." heated discussions around a smoldering, sinking, upside down Prado...
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