Day 18 Cycle towards Suswa

So... 365km cycled since we finished the walk and 670km total. Today we went from our camp along part of the route to Suswa (we are not cycling through Nairobi). Now its half term and our children are coming home. So we are taking a break. Hooray!

Daniel's front pannier just fell off this morning - on a very smooth bit. Tom's back tyre decided to lose air on occasion over the last 3 days, but there was no rhyme or reason for this. Thankfully we had no major break downs. 
What will we do differently on the next leg? Take less food: Daniel found some great ready meals (thank you for being the mule, Jonathan) but we took too many on this leg, as we could always find lunch en route. Apart from that we used everything we carried (bar first aid and every single tool). Next time we could really do with a chair each for camping - may be a challenge? 

We are now taking a break for 3 weeks and will be back with the sailing leg, that we meant to start with. Thank you for reading this far!

A big thank you to Eric Nesbit at Rift Valley Odyssey for his excellent routing. 

Finally, we are raising money for Rhino Ark and for every 75pence / 100/- raised, they will plant a tree for you and look after it. We want to get to 10 trees for every km we cover. The Just Giving link here also has an Mpesa paybill number for donations in KES. Thank you for your support!

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  1. Seb McKinlayFebruary 11, 2022 at 7:15 PM

    Well done guys on completing this second phase of Le Grande Aventure and thanks for keeping up the daily blog posts which are great especially since I presume you tap them out on a mobile phone.

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