Yo dudes - well its my first post-departure message and Ive made it to Africa! Currently in Chefchouan in the Rif Valley - keeping up the theme - in Morocco. Excuse any typos - its a johnny-foreigner keyboard and all the letters have rubbed off too. Left blighty on the ferry on Monday and arrived 3 days later in Spain - getting stuck in hurricane force winds in the bay of Biscay. They closed the port at Bilbao as some ships had broken their moorings and it was ship-soup in there. On board there was puke as far as the eye could see - and that was just the crew. Anyway, got to Spain eventually and hit the road. Need to learn Spanish food words for next trip as accidentally ordered tripe and then veal, hoping it would be something else entirely.
The view up here is fab - Id post a pic but there is no USB port on this PC. Naartjie is running a dream and tommorow we get to our first off-road section where Ill fall off and feel like a prat. After that, Ill slink shame-faced back to a PC and tell you all about it.
Only another 20,000 or so Kms to go!
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Andy
How come you never sent me or Steve the link to your Blog, I am HIGHLY insulted!!!!
Luckily my dad sent me the link so I can now spy on you P-)
Glad you made it to Africa safely, now the fun begins eh.
We are headed down to Big Bend National park on our bikes for Spring break (Next week) and will be staying on private property (just outside the park) as our camping site. Can't wait! Will have a ride report with lots of pictures.
There is another guy on ADVRider planning the same trip as you for next year on the same bike as you too!. Do you mind if I send him a link to your Blog?
Take care until the noo-ext time
David
Mr Andy,
I see your cunning plan to avoid losing your passport was to bypass France completely. Got out our wall atlas to track your progress. Life carries on as usual for the rest of the world. How is the bike holding up?
Thinking back to the planned trip to Timbuktu and the detour in Mauritania. Looking forward to the pictures.
Cheers,
BA
Ahh Bellboy
See the over use of IFS has again sent you on another African adventure.
We have started a kidnapping Fund for the congo natives. - If you are lucky enough not to use it then it will probably buy a haggis supper at the canteen.
Important Spanish words to remember are "dos cervezas del arroz le agradecen"
Sorry don't know how to ask in Kinshasa
All the very best - You F*^$ing lunatic
We will keep in touch Cheers
Barry and Neil
Am I on my own here, or is there an emerging theme in which our hero's sanity is being, not so much questioned, as heavily interrogated with several blunt instruments to hand?
For the record, and in the spirit of Andy's request to let him know what we are doing, 4 or 5 times a week I am travelling across the dangerous impasse that is Hoghton Bottoms, hitting the A59 at the height of its dangers at the bottom of Vicarage Lane,gritting my teeth and joining the M6 at J31 for a white knuckle ride to J33, before grappling with the hell on earth that is Galgate crossroads, only to wearily arrive in Lancaster some minutes later, faced with the prospect of a full(ish) day's work.
Spot the loony.
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