will we ever start? (click here for photos)

The delay now is down to the goverment in Lima not issueing the documents for the bikes.
the bikes are ready (although not mechanically sound), We are ready, but everyone else seems to be dragging the feet.

The organisers have tried bribing the authorities will unlimted cash, but they just dont seems to care. We are now amongst the last 20 teams not to have been allowed to leave.

its highly frustraighting and very costly just sitting around waiting go. we are living like tourists,but should be spending like migrants. we have now limited cash at our disposal and our worry now is can´t we afford to actually hang aroung. not that we have any options really. Our flights arnt untill the 13th Nov from the finish line, to Rio then 2 nights there until we fly back. we willhave yo use al our savings from here we fear, unless we get the go ahead in the 36 hours.

Fingers crossed we wil be able to leave today, but every day we are promised it will happen and it just falls through. we are littreally in limbo.

the up side is, the other ralliers are pretty cool, the beers is cheap and the locals are just fantastic. the town is somewhat lackluster though and mark is threatening suiside if we have to wait here till tuesday for our documents.

the powers that be are suing Honda for all cost incurred including ours, although that doesnt even start to really cover anyones cost. We´ll just have to see.

We have had many reports from the lucky 45 teams who have left already of many accidents, the most worrying was that of 2 young Scottish girls who drove their bike off a cliff, into a river, luckly they got thrown clear but the bike toppled 7 stories in to a revine and sank without trace in to the river below. they have lost everything, everything except their passpots which they happend to stow in their pockets.

And at our meeting last night, the organisers received a text from one of our fixers to say that his staff who are helping out with the paperwork had been in a horric helecopter accident and all onboard had died when the pilot lost control over the Andes. Is this a message from god maybe???

its 11.30 here now, we will find out at 2pm if we will be in the lucky few who may get to leave today.