Croft Road Run - April 5th

Nine vehicles from the Durham and Tees Valley area, gathered at Croft Circuit this morning for a road run around Cleveland and Co Durham. The run planned was around 50 miles, although Lynne and myself had already travelled 36 miles to get to the start! Before we get into the scenic and 'on the move' pictures, I'll give you a line up of the starting grid. The nine vehicles were as follows.
 

1) In the lead, our convoy organiser, Mike in his M38 Jeep, with Maurice as his co-driver/map reader. 
2) and a hard to miss vehicle for the others to see and follow was Lynne and myself.
3) Ken and Anne in their Austin Champ.
4) Bob and Pauline in a Ford GPW.
5) Ray and Tracy in a Lightweight Land Rover.
6) Tom and Dave in another Champ. 
7) Michael in his Ford GPW.
8) Ernie in his VW Trekker.
9) Bill and Ray in the Dodge WC52.

Beginning at Croft and heading roughly North West through a ford at Barton, before starting a steady climb towards Staindrop for our first coffee stop. 

 
From Staindrop, we continued North West heading towards Hamsterley Forest, but rather than through the forest, we headed onto the moors where we stopped for some more photos and a group shot.
 
 
From there we returned in an Easterly direction to our finish point at Redworth Hall where we had a late lunch before splitting up and heading for home. The last picture is of us all parked up at Redworth.

Lynne and I finished the day having clocked up 114 miles and were exhausted from all the fresh air!