Started out not bad, nice town at 31km, road got much (much, much) worse before the pavement began, bridge that had been moved, waterfall shower, truck stop so much better then envisaged (one of the best campsites we’ve had), fresh…
Off to the beach (stage 65)
We were back to 0500 breakfast this morning which meant it was still completely dark as we were getting up and getting organised – not my favourite way to start any day! For the first 20km the road wasn’t too…
Follow the river (stage 64)
So I managed to get a decent night’s sleep without needing to climb the stairway to heaven (well the toilet actually) which made this morning considerably better than yesterday morning. While and I was feeling somewhat better I wasn’t really…
A tough day in the Tajikistan mountains (stage 62)
Despite the relatively short distance today always had the potential to be a tough day with two passes in excess of 4,000m, the altitude we were starting from and some 30km of gravel in the middle. Add to that the…
Telegraph Road (stage 61)
A long time ago came a man on a track Walking thirty miles with a sack on his back And he put down his load where he thought it was the best He made a home in the wilderness He…
Spoke too soon (stage 55)
I was chatting with Adam yesterday afternoon and saying that I’d managed to escape the upset stomachs which had caused a number of other people issues. Unfortunately that was my undoing, and a night of constant trips to the loo…
Self doubt, self belief and stubbornness (stage 52)
Today was always going to be one of the toughest days of this week as though the distance wasn’t overly far, there was a lot of climbing, and it was pretty much all on gravel! Things began pretty well –…
Back to the gravel (stage 51)
There was rather a lot of rain in the night, but by the time we were getting up this morning it had thankfully stopped and the wind had done a reasonable job of getting our tents dry. Today was very…
It’s all about the sleep (stage 49)
The music started with sunset – initially from ‘over the hill’, but then also in the bay we were in. Somewhere around 2300 there were fireworks, then there were drunk people coming to swim in the lake quite near my…