I would probably say that this is my favourite challenge to date. I mean seriously, isn’t it every boy’s dream to drive a tank? Well maybe not, actually thinking about it, when I was a child I wanted to be a fire-engine when I grew up, but even so, I was pretty stoked at the concept of driving one of those bad boys so I looked into the potential of driving one as one of my fire challenges to complete.
It’s actually remarkably easy to do and with an afternoon of planning I was ready. I had 2 weeks until I actually got to drive the tank and frankly the anticipation was killing me. I’ve not driven anything since I was about 18 and frankly back then, I wasn’t very good at it. I hoped that the indeterminable years between then and now might have improved my general ability to drive. There was only one way to find out.
It was late summer when I arrived at the field. The air was crisp and clear, with very little breeze. I had taken my housemate Happy with me with for assistance and moral support. Whilst he wasn’t going to do any of the driving, we had my new camera with me and I hoped we could get some decent footage of the experience.
We made the following video of the whole experience, click below for how it turned out.
Pretty damn exciting huh?
