More technical problems
Added on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 by Carole Nash Editor
More technical problems
It’s 2.45pm local time at Muncho Park Lake. The starter button packed up in the middle of nowhere on the Alaskan Highway and I thought for a few moments that this was the end of the trip. Something as simple as a 10 cent spring can kill something like this. I’m a poor mechanic and that is bad but hey, what can I say? Anyway a couple of people stopped, one gut a bike mechanic and we push started it and that is how I will have to ride to Salt Lake - not a problem.
I have 18 hours to Calgary so should get there maybe around 5am where my mate Paul is waiting to help me, after a quick 1 hour rest I’ll continue the 1,300kms to Salt Lake. I need to be there no sooner than noon on Wednesday. After a 3 hour service at Wrights, Tim the chief mechanic will send me on my way and I will do a final 400 miles towards Tucson. I will bed down for the night in a motel for 6 hours and do my blogs and film downloads and then enter Mexico mid morning and try to reach to be south of Mexico City by nightfall.
If I can keep this up - and there a lot of people supporting me in the background, Caroline managing the admin, Will editing, Erik in Buenos Aires, Linda on the website
