Keep Smiling

Location:

Caracus

I´d like to write and tell you about first day of riding in Caracus. Instead I can give you a wonderful description of Aduana Offices, Guardia Nacional and a puzzle of other places with no signs but people who want stamps and photocopies. We do not get the OK to go until mid-day.

We are back at the hotel here, packing up and ready to make some progress now. Maybe we will get to Valencia. It is a few hundred miles down the road and at least some progress.

It is 110 degrees here and even whilst loading the bike, we have sweated three gallons. We have now lost our day that we gained back and are back at one day behind. This messes up arrangements with the Colombian riders and I hope that we can still get to ride with them this week-end.

We are off in half an hour to get a bit of road under our belt. South America here we come!