Cuzco, Peru
in cusco doing the one thing we do best, partying and dancing like fools to the small hours with the Rolling Lads, Sweet Chariot and Oscar!
Cuzco, Peru
in cusco doing the one thing we do best, partying and dancing like fools to the small hours with the Rolling Lads, Sweet Chariot and Oscar!
Cuzco, Peru
pleased to report that sweet chariot, the english boys, sean and steve who are part of our wolf pack were the first team to cross the finish line in their moto, closely followed by our other american amigos matt and peter of the pisco sour project! go wolf pack, we're reunited so a big night is on the cards in cusco! bring it on...
Cuzco, Peru
its official, Plan F and Rolling Lads are first to cross the finish line and become mototaxi junket winners! I didn't see in the rule book that you had to finish on a mototaxi.... so thats it... victory beers in cusco for the lads. smiles all round.
Lima, Peru
mototaxi mayhem, on stupidly dangerous mountain roads, colossal breakdowns, all night dancing, more beers than could sink a ship and logistical nightmares, just all part of the junket. we may not have got the moto to cusco but we are still aiming to be there first having completed our new 54 doughnut challenge! 27 down... feeling sick!@
La Libertad Region, Peru
abandoned the mototaxi and now in trujillo visiting ancient sites like chan chan. we may not have finished the junket challenge but we're making new challenges.. 50 doughnuts between 4 on the flight to cusco in the morning. we are true adventurers!
Cajamarca, Peru
having been screwed yet again by peruvian mechanics our bikes were not fixed by 6pm and will not be until 12pm. so much for smashing a few miles tonight to get us at least a little bit closer to cusco! ah well a few more beers in cajamarca it is then! not all bad i suppose!
Cajamarca, Peru
still in cajamarca.... moto's at the mechanics getting the third engine rebuild after shitty mechanics ripping us off! with a bit of luck this guy knows what he's doing and we'll be able to leave tomorrow... still no idea how we'll get to cusco!@
Cajamarca, Peru
Two Mototaxi's completely broken. No option but to get them as close to Cusco as possible. We're not giving up on it just yet though! on the plus side we took the cajamarca nightlife by storm last night but Ollie and I got told off by bouncers for whipping out the sprinkler!
Cajamarca, Peru
after 8 hours in the garage last night waiting for bikes to be fixed whilst the mechanics got coked off their tits, it was no great suprise that we got 1km up hill this morning before they conked out. more time wasted in a garage then trucked to cajamarca. starting to become a real chore getting these things to move more than a few kilometres!
CelendÃn, Peru
Arrived on 9th after travelling a pathetic 55km. both our bike and the Rolling Lads bikes died on top of a mountain. after sitting there for 4hrs a guy decided to help by putting the front wheel of ours in his boot and lashing the other to the back of ours. scary and stressfull day on the junket. spent all night at the mechanics with the bikes with two complete engine re builds.
I'm Dave and I'm a travel addict... 50 countries on 6 continents and counting. What will I bring to the team? Well aside from youth, dashing looks and British charm I'm pretty good at befriending police officers before they try to scam us out of cash and i'm not bad at sourcing alcohol in dry countries! I'm riding the bus to the Ukraine and then I'll figure out how to get home when I get there. Planning ahead isn't my strong point, flying by the seat of my pants is!
<h1 align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"></font></span></h1><h1 align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"></font></span></h1><h1 align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><img alt="whatisplanfsponsor" height="376" src="ulimages/userstore/63563/whatisplanfsponsor.jpg" title="whatisplanfsponsor" width="639" /></font></span></h1><h1 align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">What is it you're doing? I hear you ask...</font></span></h1><p align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Well, we're doing the Mototaxi Junket of course.... Take the smallest, least practical vehicle available in the continent, shoe horn myself and Al into it and chuck the lot at some of the most ridiculous and least hospitable terrain on earth. Starting on the 3rd September 2011 we will be travelling over 1500 miles winding back and forth between Ayabaca and Cusco and squeezing in all that the wilds of Peru can throw at us, from the deepest darkest Amazonian jungle to the driest desert in the world and with a small obstacle called the Andes in between. The Mototaxi Junket is rarefied adventuring stupidity in its finest form.</font></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">The noble steed chosen to carry out this adventure will be the Lifan Mototaxi. The unexpected offspring of a drunken union between a sofa and a lawnmower. Based on a city sort of bike, and then pimped out with enough room for your mum and her pet donkey, it has three wheels, a throbbing heart of 125cc, steering that works faultlessly in straight lines, and brakes made out of the finest leftover bits of guinea pig.</font></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">There is no guarantee that we will make it to the finish line on time, or even at all, there is no back up. We have no plan or route; we shall be travelling in the same way we always do 'Plan F'. Whilst on the road we shall have to speak to locals in our very best Spanglish to discover which roads to take, so that we can avoid the bandits and the roads that are likely to collapse underneath us. It will be just us, the worst machine ever invented and thousands of miles of one great adventure!</font></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">All of this has to be achieved whilst driving our ridiculously unsuitable vehicle on only minor roads. If found to be driving on a highway the Peruvian Police will generously arrange us long term, local accommodation and possibly even a starring role in the next series of 'Banged Up Abroad', both of which we wish to avoid if possible.</font></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt"><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="apple-style-span"><span>Finally, and most importantly, there is a serious part to all this stupidity,</span></span> in addition to benefiting our friends, family and work colleagues by not being around for a few weeks, Al and I hope to raise £5,000 for the charities Practical Action and Marie Curie.</font></font></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm"> </p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Wish us luck, we're going to need it....</font></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font></p></span><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"></font></span></p><p align="justify"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Plan-F-Mototaxi-Junket/212374552118839"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><img align="middle" alt="facebook" height="116" src="ulimages/userstore/63563/facebook.png" title="facebook" width="301" /></font></span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px"><font face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/PlanFAdventures"><img align="middle" alt="twittertaxi" height="114" src="ulimages/userstore/63563/twittertaxi.png" title="twittertaxi" width="304" /></a></font></span></font></span></font></p>