Such fun or how to avoid the hard work of planning your trip.
On August bank holiday Sunday we met up with Martin and Mark. They had just returned from their RTW trip and a thoroughly good time they had. You can read about their exploits on their blog here http://strimstrum.blogspot.com/. They were really nice chaps and full of useful advice and info. So many thanks to them for giving up their Sunday afternoon to face our barrage of questions.
The first weekend in September was spent at the Horizons Unlimited Autumn meeting near Cheddar. We went to lots of useful and entertaining talks from people who have been there and done what we are setting out to do. It was a real morale boost to know its not impossible and we left with a yeah, lets just do it attitude. Useful contact was also made with the chaps from James Cargo who have since sent us loads of useful information on shipping the bike across the more watery sections of our route plan.
The 11th of September was our 1st wedding anniversary ..Ahhhh. So we took a weekend off from planning, bike building and kit collecting and went to Devon for the weekend.
If you happen to be in that neck of the woods we can thoroughly recommend a trip to The House of Marbles in Bovey Tracey. Marble runs, games museum, glass works, pottery museum, the worlds largest marble marble (according to their leaflet) and the biggest cream tea I have ever seen in my life. Sunday was spent in Haldon Forest where Ant and I had a go on Segways. They are the best thing in the world ever! OK that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but they were a lot of fun. If you ever get the chance to go on one, take it, you will be converted.
The 17th and 18th of September was a party / rally to celebrate our friend Mouses 40th year on planet Earth. We spent the weekend on a farm in Penkridge messing about with bikes, wearing ginger beards and drunkenly sitting around the fire.
Most of our friends from the ratbike zone were there, for the uninitiated readers check out website here http://ratbike.org/.
The 25th of September we took part in the MAG demo to protest against proposed changes to legislation that would have an (in our opinion) adverse effect on motorcyclists and what they are allowed to do to their motorcycles.
If you would like the details check out MAGs campaign page here http://www.mag-uk.org/en/campaignsdetail/a6883 . It was a lot of fun riding on the motorway in such a large group and we were on the news. We can now boast as seen on Midlands Today!