{"id":62,"date":"2016-11-23T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T23:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2017-02-20T03:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T03:58:04","slug":"kay-and-michael","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=62","title":{"rendered":"Michael and Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike &amp; Kay live in Melbourne Australia and belong to the MG Car Club Victoria. Mike is a life member and past president and Kay is the current Secretary, so they\u2019re both quite involved in the club administration.<\/p>\n<p>Kay\u2019s dream as a teenager growing up in Sydney was to own and drive an MG (B), so in 1974 she bought a 1967 blue MGB which she still owns to this day. At the same time in 1974 Michael was living in South Africa and his dream was to drive from Tierra Del Fuego to Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Mike and Kay finally met in Melbourne in 1980 when they started working together and they started going out with each other in 1981.\u00a0 In 1982 they packed up all their belongings and went on a 3 month trip from Kathmandu to London in a Top Deck double decker bus.<\/p>\n<p>This trip went so well that they bought a camper van in London and did a 6 month tour of Europe in 1983.<br \/>\nIn 2015 they were \u201cLiving their Dreams\u201d as they drove an MGB GT from Ushuaia in Tierra Del Fuego to Skagway in Alaska with 7 other MG\u2019s. Not content with finishing in Alaska they then drove down to Los Angeles to ship their car home, a total of 5 and a half months in the BGT. <a href=\"http:\/\/mgpanamerica.mgcc.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mgpanamerica.mgcc.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now in 2017 they are doing \u201cone more\u201d (una m\u00e1s which was their catch phrase in South America) road trip along the Silk Road with another 7 MG\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mike &amp; Kay live in Melbourne Australia and belong to the MG Car Club Victoria. Mike is a life member and past president and Kay <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=62\" title=\"Michael and Kay\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8qvTj-10","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65,"url":"https:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=65","url_meta":{"origin":62,"position":0},"title":"Peter and Paula","date":"November 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hailing from Melbourne, Paula, a recently retired teacher, and Peter, a soon to be retired Senior Crown Prosecutor, (who is able to take Long Service Leave) decided having followed from afar Mike and Kay Herlihy\u2019s trip through South America that we would like to be part of the next journey.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2,"url":"https:\/\/mgsilkroad.mgcc.com.au\/?page_id=2","url_meta":{"origin":62,"position":1},"title":"About The Trip","date":"May 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2015, at the end of the South American adventure, John Bastian said to Mike Herlihy, \u201cuno mas\u201d (one more). 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