Trans Americas 2009 - The Blog

Woke after another dreadful night's sleep... despite having turned the air-conditioning off, I was still awake coughing for most of the night, and this morning feel as though I've been beaten with a baseball bat all over my body... Yesterday, Ozzy Andy was full of a cold, so I gave him the last of my cold medicine and the rotten sod gave me his cold in return... gee, thanks!

So after a small breakfast, I wandered round slowly in search of a pharmacy and some more drugs, eventually finding some tylenol cold capsules which I duly took and went back to bed. Some 3 hours later I woke, bathed in sweat, and felt well enough to update the blog for yesterday, before returning to bed where I stayed for most of the rest of the day. Crap, huh!

We had a short meeting with Julia to run through things for tomorrow, and got confirmation our bikes have arrived in Columbia. All being well we fly at 9.49am tomorrow to Bogotá and then start the process to get our bikes free from customs, which looks like it might be straightforward, as Kevin has already managed to clear his bike (but can't clear the others as they need a copy of our passport showing the Columbia entrance stamp). So we paid Julia the money for the flights (and the trip to Machu Picchu which needed paying to secure our places) and then Nick and I went in search of food, choosing an Italian restaurant not far from the hotel, where we shared a plate of cheese and a rather good bottle of Chilean Merlot, and he ate a pizza whilst I managed half a plate of delicious linguine with garlic and chillies... then back to my bed to try and get rid of this damn cold before the excitement of going to Columbia...