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A bit of a backdated issue this time as I´m really in Manaus...yes, on the real Amazon...(in fact its not on the Amazon but thats another story!)but more of that later!<br />Where to begin?...and this will be abbreviated as its exy here and uncomfortable...but for you, hey, gotta do it.<br />Got the bikes 20,000 km service in Caracas...Andrès, our man in BMW organised everything fantastically, new tyres courtesy of Herr Florian at Continental, Germany...the BMW guys did the fuel filters as well so hopefully that sorted my probs.....some cockup communications notwithstanding we were led out of Caracas by the beautiful and so charming Zulya, ex-diplomat wife, girlfriend of the BMW mechanic who was formerly a cop!..it can´t get any better than this...down the autopista, stop for gas, abso torrential downpour, makes Darwin tropical storms look like a light summer shower, get washed off the roads...then on towards Puerto la Cruz..and...ahh Susan...

Another Susan!

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 21:48:57

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A bit of a backdated issue this time as I´m really in Manaus...yes, on the real Amazon...(in fact its not on the Amazon but thats another story!)but more of that later!
Where to begin?...and this will be abbreviated as its exy here and uncomfortable...but for you, hey, gotta do it.
Got the bikes 20,000 km service in Caracas...Andrès, our man in BMW organised everything fantastically, new tyres courtesy of Herr Florian at Continental, Germany...the BMW guys did the fuel filters as well so hopefully that sorted my probs.....some cockup communications notwithstanding we were led out of Caracas by the beautiful and so charming Zulya, ex-diplomat wife, girlfriend of the BMW mechanic who was formerly a cop!..it can´t get any better than this...down the autopista, stop for gas, abso torrential downpour, makes Darwin tropical storms look like a light summer shower, get washed off the roads...then on towards Puerto la Cruz..and...ahh Susan...
My life has been peppered with several Susans...some interesting relationships and one nearly fatal reunion, well it was her sister who tried to stab me with a plastic fork in a Darwin wine bar...say no more!...this new Susan...Grant picked her up in an internet chat room...well, not strictly true, he picked up on her blog on horizonsunlimited.com (you Michaels should be onto this one)..she had ridden her 650 BMW down from Alaska to Venezuela and we had been in e-touch on some info...also, Susan had gotten me the homestay thing on Isla de Magarita...anyway, she was having a dinner party in her appartment block on the Sat night and we were trying to get there....as we got away late I wrote off cocktails but still thought maybe dinner!
It was getting darker and despite a nearly-full moon, the traffic was crazy (mostly pissed). and the big busses get along at something over 130 kph!!....scary stuff....and the potholes, lack of signs etc...there goes dinner, maybe dessert!....
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