Well hello there you wonderful people. Just a quickie (ooo-eerr) to let you know I'm alive. This is the 1st day of my 'big adventure' and the first day following the nightmare that was my journey from Heathrow to Lima, Peru....or should I refer to 'nightmares' as 'adventures' from now on? Taking the positive from a 26 hour journey, I randomly found myself in a bar in Maimi chatting to 3 Actuaries from London, as you do..... Anyway, you guys, (you know who...

9th May - Last day at work 12th May - leave Heathrow at 7am for Lima Peru.... sniff-sob 12th-30th May - Peru & Galapagos Islands, Machu Picchu, Amazon Rain Forest Trek -7 30th-3rd June - Quito in Ecuador -7 3rd-20th June - Chile, mountain biking, hiking volcanos and glacier walking in Patagonia - as you do! -5 20th-26th June - Easter Island man! 26th June - 28th July - New Zealand, Auckland to Christchurch +12 28th July -...

Didn't sleep again. 5am start. I swear the tent was on a slope, I kept waking up at the bottom of the tent with my hat over my eyes and gloves back to front. What a kuffufle! I woke with a pain on the top of my head and a lump. I started to panic that something had implanted into my bonce while I was sleeping, something like one of those big whitchity grub things from the 'jungle celeb' programme. It turned out to be sun burn on my scalp, nice. I knew ...