To be honest, I was slightly worried about riding on these bikes on these dirt roads. Ron and I do quite a bit of off-road riding back in the UK but we use trials bikes which are designed to be used off-road. These little 100 cc road bikes were not designed for these kids of roads. But then again, in hind sight, maybe they were. They coped fantastically well on all kinds of terrain – tarmac, mud, loose gravel, sand, corrugated hard-packed earth – the lot! We were both a bit apprehensive about the whole trip. Last time we were in India where I knew people, places and spoke some of the languages. Here we didn’t know anyone, anywhere or anything other than what we had read. We didn’t even know whether the bikes would be there as promised. But, it all worked out. We rode 1640 Kms (1025 miles) of which approximately 700 Kms was on tarmac and the rest was variable-condition dirt roads. We camped every night except one. The cost of the whole trip including flights, accommodation, food, drink, entrance fees, bike hire, fuel (everything except the gorilla tracking day) was approximately £1000 and I am over estimating here. At times we felt that Uganda was expensive but looking at the overall expenditure it doesn’t seem so bad for a two week trip. Everyone keeps asking where our next trip is going to be. Although we want to do more trips like this, at the moment we don’t know where the next one will be. It might be a big one – from India to UK or it might be another two week trip to Eastern Europe or Cambodia or Vietnam or somewhere like that. We’ll just have to wait and see.