Stopped antibiotics today and seems fully recovered. Thanks for the  messages, but sorry the requests for photos have been refused by the patient. Perhaps I should be selling the used plasters on Trademe.co.nz.

As some of you heard on Holme’s breakfast show Gareth wasn’t well enough to talk, so I got a say at last. He has a saddle sore or maybe a pressure sore on his rear, probably from all the hours he is sitting on the computer as well as the motorbike riding. Then the glands […]

Sometimes I wonder why we do the public side to our personal travels, but an email from my friend in Wellington has made me realise why. Her Mum, Gretta, in Kaikoura has been rather tardy about getting into the internet until she had to follow the trip. I always try to call in to say […]

All the women I meet want to know how much product and stuff I carry. They are aghast when I explain that the only product in my bag is chain lube and I have to apply it myself every night. My teeth are getting a bit worn looking at only 12500 km so it will […]

Having come back into the US legally, by riding our bikes through the border crossing at Ojinaga/Presidio, we felt as we rode east along the Rio Graqnde towards Big Bend National Park, that we just had to take the piss. So off with the gears – in these temperatures we don’t need much persuading – […]

We pulled into Batopilas pretty tired after a 6,000 ft decent to the bottom of one of Mexico’s Copper Canyons down a gravel, sand and mainly rock slide road. It reminded us somewhat of the “world’s Most Dangerous Road” in La Paz which, in a moment of madness we’d descended on bicycles. Not to detract […]

The arid environs and extreme climes of the North Mexican desert are tough for us softies from the temperate zone to endure. 46 degrees during the heat of the day and still 34 degrees at 10 pm at night is no norm for us. Setting the air con in the hotel room to 25 degrees […]

Again we are riding BMW bikes on this trip. Last year we had 650 Dakars for the boys and Joanne a 650GS on The Silk Road which proved to be the ideal bikes.This year the boys have chosen the bigger R1200GS as the bike for the American roads (easy choice for me I already owned […]

Ok so it wasn’t huge but it did bite my finger and it looked like it was going septic, so talk of amputation and gangrene was rather premature. I don’t think you would want to play with a mummy one Jo I think it was a foot long

We are all in shock from the devastation we saw during our tour of New Orleans with a local fireman. 8 months later to have so much damage and wreckage strewn about has to be put in perspective. 250,000 homes (all of Christchurch) are unliveable so 60% of the population has been relocated and many […]