Andy 'Lance Armstrong' cross and Steve 'Lance Armstrong wannabe' Wyatt set a good pace which I neglected to follow.
– Lhasa to Kathmandu (1 / 20)
We passed a sign shortly after declaring that we had 239km to go before our next hotdog opportunity - further than we were expecting.
– Iceland (2 / 20)
Russel went first and told us the water wasn't so bad. Frankly, he lied.
– South America (3 / 20)
With a gait like that Andy, you must be packing a mean pistol
– Haute route (4 / 20)
A smile that soon faded a touch when lunch was laid out, or should I say laid bare; a feast it was not.
– Lhasa to Kathmandu (5 / 20)
I can only assume that at some point in the past a conversation along the lines of - him: 'fancy Lands end to John O'groats dear?' her: 'only if you carry bloody everything, and I'm including my hair straighteners' - had taken place.
– Lands end to John O'groats (6 / 20)
Weighing in at a few kilos each we felt, and Steve "dog hater" Wyatt in particular, this was luggage allowance well spent.
– Lhasa to Kathmandu (7 / 20)
the check in lady asked if we were worried about our bags at our Singapore change. 'Should we be worried?'
– Borneo (8 / 20)
Meanwhile Steve was discovering more holes in his thermarest and set about fixing them, the first task of which is to find the pesky things and after a short time we concluded that the last time this bit of equipment had seem any action was on a bed of nails.
– Lhasa to Kathmandu (9 / 20)
The film was terrible but an inspired choice in some ways, it was hard to tell it the honking of horns was from outside the bus or on the film.
– South America (10 / 20)
We popped in for a second look and to weigh up in our minds whether we wanted to be carrying a large breakable item for the rest of the trip
– Eastern Europe (11 / 20)
Love the road not sheep (Colin)
– Shimla to Leh (12 / 20)
We also had first contact with Duncan's love balls but the less said the better.
– Iceland (13 / 20)
No one should accuse the Inca's of not being thorough, we saw some examples of the heads of enermies which had had their brains pulled out, their eyes covered, the lips sewn up and a hole put in the head to thread them together
– South America (14 / 20)
Andy personified this attitude with several career ending tackles on his opposite number, Jon
– Andy's stag night (15 / 20)
A beast of a pass to negociate persuaded us to get an early start while a lack of food resources persuaded us to have a light breakfast; you win some you loose some
– Lhasa to Kathmandu (16 / 20)
A day that can be summed up by a single activity - faffing.
– Haute route (17 / 20)
Despite leech socks suddenly becoming all the rage, plenty of determined blood suckers found their mark much to the amusement/horror of those concerned.
– Borneo (18 / 20)
With most people up on deck I thought it was a good time for the camera. The driver thought it was a good time to rev the engine and cover me in a cloud of diesel. Nice.
– Borneo (19 / 20)
Today was possibly the busiest rest day I've ever had.
– Borneo (20 / 20)
