We have arrived, a day early after doing 270km in two, rather than three days. Across a rather cool desert, thankfully. Eventually found some traffic, and more Indian like horn useage. I've even been in to a conventional shop yesterday. And found a hospital with some drugs, so the potential for Jac mouth frothage is now all but extinct, which is nice. Running water, lights, choice of food, paper in most toilets, quite incredible.... More soon, later. Bikes stacked, final distance something like 2600km along, 26km up and I guess about 23km down! Highest point (50m lower than high [View Full Entry]

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We´ve arrived. Ayachucho, where the streets are paved with..., well paved! And is my bottom glad about that. I arrived in a bit of a hurry as it happened, convinced I was about to start frothing at the mouth following an earlier attack by a rather over excited canine acquatance I´d had the miss fortunte to have been biten into by, earlier. Having got somewhat accustomed to dogs of various sizes going mental at or in close proximity to my ankles coupled with stuggling to fight of frustration generated by the 6th or so day of digestion failure, a severly grated [View Full Entry]

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Ok here would be the dullest entry to date, if I hadnt concockted some previously. Largely for Ross!!! To speed things up, cos I could be looking at stunning hills right now!! I am just going to put the numbers down. The order of which will always follow this; km, time on bike, avg speed, max speed total climb, highest altitude, avg gradient, max gradient final altitude (where recorded) So here goes (initially I didnt reset computer every day, pretty obvious when not! 25/10/06 94.22, 4:56,19,51 736,4092,3%,11% 26/10/06 165.45, 9:02,18.2,56.5 1560,4276,3%,11% 29/10/06 6 [View Full Entry]

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Possible, hardly even difficult! My bottom may have a slight difference of opion but who gives a ..... So we left the last town, down the main road 600m in 15 miles just to make a mountain out of the hill ahead of us for the day, and took her on. Oh yer mister. Well prepared, two meals in 4 hours the night before despite our less than closed systems. Stock up at the first supermarket type thing (first shop, really) I´ve been in in Peru and a quater to 6 start. Awesome. Slowly slowly. Down to the bridge and then [View Full Entry]

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I just wrote a proper, rather dull, but slightly amusing entry of the last few days. Just as I laid (leaned) back to admire my handy work, in light of the usual rather crass mumblings, I happend to touch, the silly two square elctricity plugs they have hear. Black. Gone. Something tells me, I´m only suppose to write crap. Your lad next door to me suffered the same fate from my fatal left foot movement and seems far less bothered than me. But the again he seems to be looking a virtual ladies... I can´t really be bothered to rewrite it [View Full Entry]

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I´ll try and pick up from roughly where Jac left off. We arrived in the town of Atalaya as the sun had disappeared down the Madre de Dios River. Weary arms and even wearier bikes were rested as we tucked into two dinners each at a shack to at the end of town where we had hoped to find a sauna and cocktail bar. Despite being everyone´s starting point into the jungle it transpired that a maximum of 15 minutes was spent there before being shipped off to the private lodges in the jungle downstream. There was however a healthy selection [View Full Entry]

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Well hello there! How are we all doing? Many of you well from the various messages and comments I get. Thanks all for them, always good to log in and see we're not forgotten! I don't think I've contributed to this blog thing since arrival in Cusco so here I am again. Please forgive, but a large part of this whole crazy idea was to get away for a wee bit. Its been great to not touch a computer for 10 days or what ever it is now. I'm much more of a hill person than a computer one, and boy [View Full Entry]

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So we left here moments after I mopped up my latest effort and Dom finished his last entry. Hit the road feeling a little worse for wear but glad to be actively constructing anything other than more mess. Enough, it was, and fortunately so was it. Across the town of Cusco out past the large white Jesus, bisecting many of the Cusco local Inca sites. Not allowed to stop and visit because a, by now no time and b, man asked if we were planning to and we said we weren't. Short cycle to Pisac, as we like, initially uphill with [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone, I´m just writing this whilst Jac packs up and gets himself together after numerous visits to the toilet in the night. So take the length of this entry as an indicator of our general health/organisation. OUr next adventure out od Cuzco will take us down into the jungle to - in theory leave today. I´ll keep you posted. We caused much confusion and general hubbub by arriving in Machu Picchu on our bicycles. Under normal circumstances the site is inaccessible by any other means but the train but via a 300km round trip we eventually bounced into the historic [View Full Entry]

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