cliveninatravel
 Clive and I met whilst on a round the world trip on our motorbikes in 2002. On that trip we travelled 32,000 miles in 95 days, averaging more than 400 miles a day.Since then we have made several shorter trips and have set up this site so that we can record our memories in an accessible manner to those not with us, and as a reminder when we return.
Last year we rode round South America and will be off to Timbuctu at the end of October 09. To that end I have a new bike that is smaller than the last one and Clive has a new version of his old Adventure. This is a short trip as we must be back in time for Xmas. Here we go...... |
Our latest 5 diary entries
| 22nd Oct 2009 - 8th Dec 2009 | ||||
| North West Africa 2009 | ||||
| T KCan't resist another little trip after a long hard summer with the plum harvest etc. We are going to bike to Timbuctoo ! Since its November , almost, we are going to cheat a bit and catch the ferry to Santand... | ||||
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| 30th Dec 2008 - 3rd Feb 2009 | ||||
| South America. Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela | ||||
| 30th Dec TuesSunny day. Work our way slowly out of town. Usual lack of signs meant lots of asking. We hate to see all the rubbish on the way out just as there had been on the way in. As we have gone further north in... | ||||
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| 13th Dec 2008 - 29th Dec 2009 | ||||
| South America. Bolivia and Peru | ||||
| 13th Dec SatWe are going to be leaving Chile today after about 3 weeks travelling. We will not be sorry to say good bye to plastic processed cheese for breakfast and melted in sandwiches, and the very thin loo pape... | ||||
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| 17th Nov 2008 - 12th Dec 2008 | ||||
| South America 2008/9 part 2 | ||||
| 17th Nov Mon.Last night Raul and his wife Christina kindly entertained us with wine and accordian playing of lovely Tango music from early times to present. Raul was 'very accomplished having been interested in musi... | ||||
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| 1st Oct 2008 - 16th Nov 2008 | ||||
| South America 2008/9 part 1 | ||||
| 30th Sepember 2008Our journey to South America begins. This time the bikes leave first . On 30th September 2008 we loaded them aboard a borrowed truck in drizzling rain and delivered them to Seafast Warehousing in T... | ||||
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