"You don't learn from your mistakes - but know them when they come around again" (lyrics from Echobelly)
Jo Bowen, 21/05/08
(Jo is due to be married on Jura on the day the ride arrives John O'Groats -26th May)
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The Quest:
to boldly go beyond my own ego
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The Holy Grail Castle?
(from Monty Python?)
One of many roadside memorials
Oh deer!
Screw photo 1
Screw photo 2
-before cutting off a section of this tyre and attaching it to the rear mudguard as a momento/ mudflap
Thank you A30 for this Screw
Some days I just flew along
Cyclists' Sunburn
-after just one day of sun
Typical Cornwall
-St Agnes
Bob & Martin also left on 9th May
Andrew & I reckon a dozen cyclists a day complete the End to End in the summer months
Pretending to be doing the double!
-it's easy to be upstaged at Land's End
The 'there and back' guy
-easy without carrying the baggage I bring with me! Unfortunately, the there and back guy had a knee injury after two days and aborted the ride.
This is what's at Land's End!
Andrew was with me both at Land's End & John O'Groats
-we had separate quests in the middle!
Panniers at John O Groats -an homage to the gnome in 'Amelie'
Thank you, Mike & Natalie, for the freelend
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