I took my first.driving test in 1974 aged 17, it was the Driving School car and it broke down on my test, so null and void. My parents refused to fund any more lessons and I was just a student at the time, so gave up for a while until I could afford a few more lessons, then passed it first time in my husbands car, aged 21 and heavily Pregnant! The examiner looked more nervous than I did!
I bought my first new car when I was 24, a basic Mini Metro, and drove all over the Uk in it, sometimes with a small camping trailer on the back. Started working full time as a Nurse in 1984, so treated myself to a larger more powerful car, and borrowed my Mum's Caravan regularly, towing many miles and visiting some quite remote places. This was to be the start of a lifetime of Caravan ownership, and along with my Second Husband, we have owned a total of 9 caravans over 34years, and still own one today, although he does all the towing these days, and we dont go away half as much as we used to do when we used to go on the Club Rallies.
I was always the more confident driver of the two of us, always eager to explore a mountain pass, or drive and navigate an unfamiliar road, where as he would panick, pull over, and hand the car over to me! I used to love to do off road Rally driving in a 4x4 too, and got my 'Mudpluggers' badge for towing Caravans off really Muddy slippery Rally fields after a very wet weekend!