Monday 4 August 2008

Stinging Nettles in Mexico?

Hola – Matt here. Well things are really hotting up now! Stu’s off in a mere 4 weeks and is brimming with confidence after his successful trial run with the bike and kit to Sauda(merica) – sounds a bit like South America don’t you think? Stu does!

I am some behind/atras in my prep, but with a little help from Mastercard &
Thorsten at http://www.off-the-road.de/ next week my steed should start to resemble the lean mean km crunching overland machine that I have envisaged. Team Panamercia are having their final meet in Bergen on Wednesday to cover a few finer details (better beer? – Hansa or Heinken) and also to get the tool belt out and tinker! This is the point where it could go horribly wrong for Stu’s bike!! How many bits?

Some great news that Jose Puig, the chap wearing legend from
Mexico featured in the photo on the right will be meeting us in LA on his new Harley Sportster for a week long road trip down through Ensenada and the Baja Peninsula. Mixing in some diving with whale sharks and some potential real off-roading!! Although my last flirtation with something other than tarmac ended in a ditch full of 6ft stinging nettles. Nuff said. I wonder if they have stinging nettles in Mexico?? Or is it just cacti?