We`ve made it to base camp, AKA San Salvador airport, from where we will be mounting a "dawn raid" on San Salvador tomorrow. Our final day lies ahead, although it could possibly be our toughest one yet: a 1500m climb over 40 kilometres. Throw into the mix the fact that we`re all knackered, everyone seems to want to either shoot us or sell us a gun so we can shoot other people, and Dan`s bike is now about as useful as a chocolate teapot, and it could be a real toughie. Dan`s bike now has a second-hand Nicaraguan front mech, no rear mech whatsoever (this had to be removed today after it finally sheared in half), is on its fourth (fourth!) chain and is stuck fast in a single random gear. We have seemingly exhausted the expertise of almost every San Salvadorean mechanic and now have to pray to the bicycle Gods that not only will the chain hold fast, but that Dan`s thighs can power a fully loaded single gear bike up a mountain range*. He managed to power through the last 25ks today, a heroic effort, so it truly is fingers crossed for tomorrow.
We`ll be sure to send a twitter update tomorrow, hopefully saying that we`ve made it. Don`t expect a full bog update if we do though - we`ve got an extremely important appointment with several gallons of local ale to attend to first. Priorities people, priorities.
Lots of love
John and Team San2San
*It should be noted that all of this pales in comparison to the difficulty of writing this blog as a result of the fact that the NONE OF THE KEYS ON THE KEYBOARD RELATE TO THE SYMBOLS THAT APPEAR ON THE SCREEN WHEN THEY ARE PUSHED. To describe this as annoying would be phenomenal understatement.
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