Exhausted on the long roads
Added on Friday, August 29th, 2008 by Carole Nash Editor
Exhausted on the long roads
Too tired to write properly. Left Turpiza in Southern Bolivia and rode at 13mph all day. The road was very poor, made up of corrugations and gravel. The scenery was magnificent and made up for the tough riding. 50 kms before Uyuni, sand covered the road so deep I have to dig a channel across to get the bike through. Got in at 9pm, ate quickly, wrote blog, went to bed.
Next day, up at 7am, grab some breakfast, head out to change some money, find some old plastic bottles and fill them with petrol. Can’t write anymore, too tired, desperately tired.
Feel better. Realise I am riding 15 hour days across Bolivia at 13 000 ft in Autumn/Winter. The rough roads get to me. The exhaust on the bike has fallen off so is tied on with metal wire. The tyres are fine. Lost my pump. If I puncture at the wrong time of day, late in the afternoon when what few trucks pass, no longer do, I will be stranded at altitude at night. That is a bad thought. All day I ride, bumping along. I think why? When after Sudan and Northern Kenya I presumed all the bad roads were now over. Not so. But Bolivia is spectacular and I have not reached the top of the Andes yet. That will happen tomorrow.
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