WELCOME TO OUR BLOGSITE. IT'S MAINLY ABOUT OUR TRIPS. IN A TRUCK.

WHILST TRAVELLING OVERSEAS WE USE THE TRAVELOGUES SECTION OF THE SITE TO DOCUMENT OUR LOCATION, RELAY SOME EXPERIENCES AND, SOMETIMES, TO TAKE A WITHERING STAB AT TRYING TO MAKE SOME SENSE OF THE WORLD.

BY DEFAULT, POSTS APPEAR IN DATE ORDER WITH THE MOST RECENT FIRST BUT NAVIGATING TO OLDER POSTS / TRIPS IS EASILY ACHIEVED BY FOLLOWING THE RELEVANT LINKS.

AS WELL AS MEMORIALISING TRIPS, THE SITE ALSO OFFERS A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO US, OUR TRUCK AND A FEW USEFUL RESOURCES.

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR VISIT!

Ireland Trip - Injury Update


Two weeks and three days after the crash all is slowly mending. The troublesome finger injury is looking good, though I can't yet bend it properly. I can't grip properly with my left hand either: I think the middle-finger knuckle must have been broken. My groin still sports a huge, multi-coloured bruise and a lump that's painful to touch but this is reducing in size and becoming less bother with each passing day. The other 20 or so sites of skin loss are now well on the way to being fully healed.

The bike is stripped and awaiting parts, both brake / gear change levers were smashed but I've sourced replacements. The biggest faff is the aluminium fork steerer, which, it turns out I bent (using my groin). This is long-since obsolete and one local engineering firm has already declined to try to turn me a knew one.

None of this was not Ireland's fault. It's a fantastic place to visit in a motorhome.