Monthly Archives: December 2007

Alaska to Argentina – Kitty has Montezuma’s Revenge

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Greetings All

Time for the next mini (major?) drama in our story.

In our last cliff hanger we were waiting in the delightful Mexican town of Chihuahua famous for its very small dogs and men wearing cowboy hats and very pointy toed boots (including a very tasteful snakeskin finish, hot pink colour with black tiger stripes, I am not making this up I have photos to prove it)

After just over two weeks in our luxurious hotel (I originally slandered it by describing it as a one and half star hotel, it was actually only a one star hotel) I picked up my shiny new and round wheel, bolted it on and we took off for the city of Zacatecas, 800km south of Chihuahua.

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Alaska to Argentina – Tales from the Pillion Seat

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It´s been a long time between emails due to several reasons.  A lot of it due to slackness and laziness on my part. No surprise´s there.

We have hit a pothole in the road to progress at the moment.

As a matter of fact it was probably hitting many potholes that has causes Kitty to become a Unicycle. The rear wheel has started to collapse (all the spokes have started to come loose) so we are in a small hotel in Mexico unable to go anywhere as I have had to ship the wheel back to the USA to a very rare company who can repair this type of wheel.

Unlike normal spoked wheels BMW don’t repair their cross laced spoked wheels and virtually no one else will , the usual solution is to break out a credit card and take a deep breathe. Luckily one of the few companies that do repair them was back in the US so the wheels had its own holiday in Colorado at Woody’s Wheel Works.

This delay with our slow rate of progress means that we have come to the realisation that we will not be able to make Tiero Del Feugo be fore bad weather sets in early in the year. We are working out plan B, Plan C and probably up to Plan Z25/3 as to where we will ship Kitty and ourselves from to get back to Oz.

We WILL be coming back.

On a lighter note I have written a few shorter emails that I will be sending over the week or so about particular incidents or places.

Finally if anyone cares to send back a reply that is a bit longer than

“Got yer email”

We would not be offended if it had some news and chat from Oz or wherever. (Hint, hint)

Onto the stories…………………..…..

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