Saturday, July 26, 2008

What taper week is really all about.


After off-loading the to-do list in his post below, Stewie resorted to the infamous Cowey spreadsheet (6 pages) to whip us all in to shape. I'm anticipating the updated versions in flow-chart and spider diagram format any day now ... Thanks to the spreadsheet at least we know who to blame if anything goes wrong!

We are hunting for new accomodation in Cape Town because in between Tuesday, when we paid for it, and yesterday, they sold the appartment we'd booked! The Cape Town adventure gear shopping list is growing VERY long since we discovered that 1. Excess baggage fee is $30 per Kilo, and 2. the biggest adventure shop in CT is in the Stellenbosch wine region 3. "ZAR" the South African Rand is a wonderful currency to do business in.

This weekend:
  • I learnt that when paddling in zero degrees, the boys are not as tough as they like to make out.

  • We decided that KEEN Ridgelines are great shoes, and come in fancy colours (see picture) but my pink laces won't fit in Grant's size 13's

  • We confirmed that catching a chill can be remedied by eating a lot - and we are all doing good on that front of late.


  • We put all our faith in coreflute ("plastic cardboard" explains Lukie) spending vast amounts of time and energy building deluxe bike boxes which will not disintegrate in the rain.
Overall KEEN Torqers are having a ball. We've done all the hard work, will all surve our to-do lists, and in spite of practicing our sleep deprivation over the next few days we're going to be in South Africa in less than a week rejoicing in the fact that the world is a beautiful place..

NOW GET ME ON THAT PLANE!!!
:-)
Del

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