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hitch with lorry,mechanics have nothing to tow with,nearest recovery place has 1 tow truck,unavailable.hitched a lift to a garage.tow truck available.driver wont do it as boss not there.out of nowhere massive tuk tuk comes along says he'll undercut anyone to do it,dumps his passengers,spewing as nowhere near destination.sorry.now back to the others 20km away-lets hope his flimsy rope holds.no chance of finish line today
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10am disaster struck.tuk broke down middle of nowhere.flagged down lorry trying to find a village where someone will tow us
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7am.mechanic made decision for us.not there.we push on.eek
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made it,bored of typing we broke down,but we did.this time we realise engine has big problem.still.now differing opinions-push on upto mountains and risk breaking down nowhere or get a mechanic,could be clueless and waste a day,scrap could be,almost certainly will be clueless,but more chance of tuk making it to finish.220km to go.beer now so not bothered if walk it
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120km south painfully slow progress in stunning bengal countryside-stunning as not broke down in it for good 3hrs.always tempt fate when i text that.edging closer...340 from gangtok.planning to buy rope as we are finishing in next two days even if towing it with our crotches@
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exhaust dangling off,roof rack snapped.in denial.just ignoring it.80km in 4 hours.catch us if you can
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list of people to thank in no particular order...mystery mechanic who was forced from reading his paper and finally diagnosed the problem,completely donald ducked engine,tractor repair shop who said they dont make this sort of engine anymore but they have 1 left from 1852,our interpreter we picked up at train station who just wanted drinks as price until he said do you do love?man who arranged the tow,wanted no money,his only concern being we had no dinner.the numerous alcoholics who were holding spanners clapping cheering while necking our bottle of whisky,fat old drunk who just sat in the tuk pretending to rev, all played their part in surrealist 24 hours of our lives.a day behind,gangtok looking difficult but doable...that is until 7am this morning when broke down again.got it started and hope it lasts.max 30km an hour-need to do 300 today.its like F1
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tractor man led us to train station clueless.now on fifth mechanic-this time engine apart.pray for us.apparently petes handsome,we're not
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On their version of aa...5 mechanics,break it even more.now tractor towing our tuk,me and guy on back,pete navigating our pink heap of merde.distance travelled - minus 15km-going back on ourselves.stoic upper lip.barely a tremble
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- update - somewhere nearer Kolkata (Calcutta) 800 Kms to go - it's getting hotter and we're all slowly cooking. The roads are getting worse, Guy's got the screaming craps and I've been shit on by a bird (twice) - happy days! On a lighter and happier note, Man Utd lost (sorry Chris) .
Just back from 7 months travelling the globe and I still have itchy feet.
I am ready for a big, new, bright and shiny adventure and how could anybody resist travelling through India on a motorbike with a lid.
I've been trying to gain entry to one of these bloody things for the last 6 months without luck ..... but now I'm organised!!
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This is our blog and technically speaking should be updated by text messages, so I imagine it'll never be updated but just in case it does click on our blog every now and then and it'll tell you where we are...</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">day 1: Kerala</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">day 90: Kerala</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">day 360: begging in Kerala</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">day 756: eating amputees</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">day 924: amputees eating us</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">But let's be optimistic and think we can get our roller across the continent, it's started well, we've managed to get on the same time flight, same airline, just different days. So keep in touch. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Love Pete, Guy, Chris</font></p>
