2005 - The Final Entry

Since Zoe has done such a sterling job writing our web journal entries I thought I should make some sort of contribution. I started a poem about our trip while we were waiting for our Angolan visas in Libreville and have now completed it. Although it is rough round the edges as I have the writing skills of a gorilla (no offence to gorillas), I think it captures some of the things we experienced and learnt on our trip.ODE TO AFRICA TRIP 2004
I remember how they started this rather daring trip,
Their confident walk betrayed by that shaky bottom lip;

Faffing About the UK

All photos related to this blog entry can be found at Grant & Julie

We had come across this WWII Harley Davidson from Canada a couple of times in the UK

Via desde Puno, Peru a frontera con Bolivia y Copacabana

Pareja pescando en el Lago Titicaca

Gente muy trabajadora

USA & Mexico

After arriving in the USA the break from the road continued (although there was still a fair few miles covered), I met up with Helen and we had a couple of weeks enjoying Southern California and Nevada. First stop was fabulous (and scorching hot) Las Vegas, but they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas so I'll leave it with a pic to give the general idea!

Hot, Humid and Fiery

Tuesday 28 October 2014

Australia 2014 - (20) Karratha to Port Hedland

Get your Rocks Off......

In the words of the famous song from Robbie Williams - Get your rocks off honey... as chris says we have been lookings at a lot of piles of rocks lately - Istanbul was an early start , arnt they all ? off to Ankara - as mentioned before its not the most inpiring city in the world.... One day in, overnight, look at Mustafa Kamals place and leave.... to Cappadocia, Nemrut and now here - Diyarbikir

Around Mexico City

On Eduardo's suggestion we headed up Nevado de Toluca. This is a dormant volcano that stands 4,500 meters above sea level. The dirt road from the highway winds 27kms through lovely forrested areas to the exposed alpine crater cone. Then decends into the crater to two lakes at 4,300 meters.

Primer dia a traves del desierto Peruano

Pozos petroleros

Puentes en la via

Update

We're back !
Sorry it's taken us so long to blog but we have had a right old time I can tell you !
Oh, many thanks to the 1000's of you that commented on the lack of blog for the past 3 days, called to see if we were alright etc...it touched us both deeply !

Water and Onions

Thursday 6 November 2014

Australia 2014 - (26) Kununurra to Katherine

Last word from Chris

"What a trip – you never know what's going to happen when you hit the starter and take the first miles from home. We stayed in everything from a 7 star hotel to bush camping in a field. The Burg al Arab is some thing special, really spectacular....................What a trip – you never know what's going to happen when you hit the starter and take the first miles from home. We stayed in everything from a 7 star hotel to bush camping in a field. The Burg al Arab is some thing special, really spectacular.

Costa Rica... Pura Vida

View from Volcán Poás

Slowly edging closer to South America we entered Costa Rica. The border crossing was reasonably easy though somewhat confusing and time consuming taking approximately 2 hours to complete.We arrived in Peñas Blancas at what appeared to be a large bus terminal.