Jim's Passage To Africa

11/01/2004

passage to africa.. would be really cool... count me in if yer in need of "rail weight" or someone to jig the sheets"...

well this canadian burnt my clutch and i waited 3 days for a new one to arrive and ofcourse paid like 4x on it and then a day further into the yungas the whole damn bike started overheating (suspect it got something to do with the other) and i go like 5 minutes and gotta wait 20 for the engine to cool. and so i got tired of that and found a lift back to la paz to crack er open and take a closer look...

make sure you buy a Honda... and in good condition... and add clutch plates to your list of spares. and before you even leave town on your first trip cough down the $100 to have the timing chain and piston rings changed just to be sure... and watch them do it.

sometimes in travel you feel like your going nowhere...


>>one month should see me leaving bolivia and heading strong south
>>from santiago to reach the tierra del fuego in time for @the
>>season@
>>*december thru februarz(  damnit! went from a peruvian keyboard to
>>this backwards german one. but atleast i can easily type words
>>like
>>straße and bürächö.

> my goal is to make it down there to do a month-long mountainbike or
> hiking trek along the dirt-road pan-am highway south from puerto
> montt.  also check out river rafting possibilities.  my outdoor buds
> up here want to know the scoop.  also my friend ken miller is
> starting
> a new travel adventure company in peru.  i'm setting up his site
> today.

>>zeah i checked out zer site... i like the pocket updates but got
>>confused trzing to read them upside down. i mean from the bottom
>>of
>>the page up. flip er straight.

> yeah, i got work to do.  luckily i was able to download putty onto
> this
> library computer in coolidge, arizona, while my dad is over at the
> realty office.  workin' the bugs out of my travel system.

>>damn i am crazy jealous of zer month aboard the uss jones.  that
>>is
>>something i alwazs wanted to do...  bring er a few scuba tanks and
>>grab some bugs along the waz. reckon zoull be good tired of
>>seafood...

> yeah, he's talked about doing the trip before but this time it looks
> like it will work out, imshallah.  i'm gonna learn all i can about
> crewing for longer sail trips, and try to get hooked up in the
> network
> of caribbean boaters.  maybe i can score us passage to africa...

> --
> jim wiggins (on the road)

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