I woke up on the second rest day in Freetown feeling terrible, with a headache, stomach cramps, runny bottom, and generally feeling like cr*p! Thanks to my decision to stay in the bunkroom I was at least in an air…
Just getting it done (Stage 20)
The wind died away completely somewhere in the night, and by the time I was getting up this morning it was actually misty – quite weird in the desert. The upshot was a dripping-wet tent on both sides of the…
Road to recovery
A quick post to let you know that my health is improving slowly – we had a rest day yesterday in Bulhara which has helped with that, but unfortunately the WiFi wouldn’t let me get any updated posts loaded, hence…
Up hill and down dale (stage 34)
As expected I slept well in the relative cool, but my tent was pretty wet this morning, and the biting bugs were all about again so breakfast and getting on the road was all done pretty smartly. Today we’re heading more-or-less…
Getting to Ulaangom (stage 23)
Awesome news to start the day – Liz got an email from (the other) Steve to say that he’d been able to get a set of replacement tent poles for me, that they were ‘only’ $130 USD (less than I’d…
Blowing in the wind (stage 10)
The wind continued to blow through the night – I was awake shortly after midnight and it was as strong as it had been at any point until then, but by the time we woke at 0515 it was thankfully…
Raining in the desert (stage six)
Thankfully not much on me, but others in the group got quite a bit wetter at times. Today was another of those days which could have gone either way with the wind – in the end we got ‘not as…
Stage four
Today was one of the days that I’ve been worrying about because it was down to be 164km, and there are four further days all of +/- 120km before we get another rest day. As it’s turned out, it wasn’t…
Stage three
Today was always going to be a short day so we had the luxury of a ‘late’ start – with rider meeting and breakfast at 0700. It also meant that there was plenty of time for sightseeing along the way.…
I need to learn to nap
Not a lot happened yesterday…! I tried to sleep in, but that didn’t work out so well – particularly since breakfast ended at the hotel at 0900. So then it was time for a look round town. Wandered down to…