The waiting game
2012 has become the year of nautical tracking, it would seem: my new favorite pastime is tracking the progress of Wallenius-Wilhelmsen ship Don Juan as it makes its way through the North Sea and eventually on to Nova Scotia, New York and Baltimore. Why, you ask? Because my new car is aboard and having its VIN allows me to do so! The folks over at the Swedespeed Volvo forum have put together a comprehensive thread on the subject of tracking custom orders.
You’d better believe I’ll be checking in with the Southampton radar information when it will be catching a view of Don Juan on Sunday. As I said to Kate, GPS and the internet would have made the pirate’s life so much easier…