Shelterbox first-hand, and other stuff..

just a short post.. there is a fascinating first hand account of life as a Shelterbox Response Team member during January’s floods/landslides in Peru here: http://shelterbox.org/news.php?id=280 and if after reading it you’d like to make a donation then my JustGiving page is here: http://www.justgiving.com/mikesimagination

…as for me, well getting ready to leave Salta in the morning.. part of which involved demonstrating my intelligence by managing to sew a button back on my trousers while still wearing them… and attaching them to my boxers. So much for being a competent engineer… I’d blame it on the altitude but Salta is only at 1200m or so….  I’ve also been  chuckling the last day or so over something that Steve, another English cyclist I met, said to me while we were discussing the disproportionate number of beautiful women in this city (and indeed the country)… “..yes but they are so high maintenance” he said.. “ look at ’em in the parks and streets clinging on to their men like there is no tomorrow…“. I nearly said “oh yes, give me my bicycle any day….” Nearly….. clearly I’m not as dedicated to my sport as I should be… hehe, last night when my dinner arrived in front of a world class cleavage and bejeweled naval I’m ashamed to admit I would not have noticed had I just been served a plate of beetles ;-)

In other news I’m very grateful to the nice folks at Road.cc for giving Shelterbox a mention, I’m a long way short of my target and any extra help is appreciated – it’s very hard to get noticed as a regular individual unless a footballer riding a unicycle in a frock…. or something…. (which is fine by the way tho I’m not inclined to wear a frock up here…) especially with so many different and worthwhile fundraising events happening at the moment. So… if you can spare a £ or $ or € or anything else then Shelterbox and I will be grateful. I will also be writing a feature for road.cc when I get home so stay tuned for that, nominally it will be June but I have this strange urge , when I get to Peru and given that further north from Cusco would be to cover old ground to instead  head west  and scoot all the way back down the Pacific coast through Chile to the very tip of Tierra del Fuego… and from there it might be possible to work passage on a  ship to South Georgia and go riding with some penguins… oh the possibilities are endless…  lol ;-)

Anyway, that’s enough from me from Salta… next time I log on I imagine I’ll be some-way along the 400-and-something km or so journey up to the border. Hopefully I won’t have the floods leaving the city that I had on the way in ;-)

hasta luego!

p.s. if you’re headed to Salta and need a place to stay I can’t recommend Inti Huasi enough, a terrific little hostal run by really lovely folk, peaceful but with good music and epic BBQs. http://www.intihuasihostel.com.ar/en/

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