R and R

Location:

Ushuaia

When you ride like we have ridden you have no time to think about being tired. You just get on with it. The moment it is over, everything seems to break down. Big plans for celebrations and champagne dissolve too nothing as after your first beer, you fall asleep in your food.
The past 4 days have been nothing but catch up time. Sleeping for 10 hours each night, eating to make up for all the irregular meals and days without eating, and sleeping some more. We can barely keep our eyes open past 9pm. The body slowly seizes up, bugs which seem to have been kept at bay appear from nowhere as throats are sore, sneezes are frequent. The brain remains as if stuffed with cotton wool and it is too hard to think.

If only someone could pluck us out of here and back home!! Still we have a route back to Santigo to ride and tomorrow we leave. In many ways this part of our journey is the most risky, with a lot of dirt to cover. Without the focus of the record, it could be too easy to make mistakes. You can track our ride home over the next month.