Oh my GOD! What a day. It didn't start off too well, what with me ripping todays map up thinking it was yesterdays, and then locking myself out of my room only to be totally rejected by what I thought was my new metal mate! I thought I would be kind and top her up with fuel first thing, and the thanks I got was she hurled me off onto the garage forecourt like a swatted fly just for trying to kick start her in gear. I pretended the whole thing didn't happen, after all only 30 fellow bikers witnessed me lying on the floor with her between my legs. After making up we headed onto the lorry highway. The longest covoy of lorries travelling in both directions, on an orange dusty road, you could ever see. A horrible dirty dangerous and noisy 10 mile ordeal never to be repeated. However, no pain no gain as they say, because this treachourous route eventually lead us to the most idillic lush countryside full of rice fields, palm trees and monkeys. Every village we drove through there would be lines of beautiful smiling children waving at us as if we were a royal cavalcade. These people live in mud hits but are so happy and so smartly dressed.
After 10 hours of biking and only 2 bikes written off, it was time to turn in to our destination for the evening........my beach hut.... with little or zero sanitation. Waste pipes held together with hair, and no water to wash in. However the sea is a wonderful substitute, I just forgot my hair gel! Sleeping on the beach tonight as the bed looks extremely dodgy, eventhough it does have a very stylish pink mosquito net and lime green brushed nylon sheets.
6 am start tomorrow but it promises to be beath taking. Time for a beer!
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