The bunch
The top picture includes all the South Africans ...
- Shaun - Formerly East London, now here and there and I can't remember what field he is in
- Darrel - Cape Town, marketing field. Totally chilled, relaxed and never cycled more than 50km before this tour
- Alice - Jo'burg, physio - just finished community service and decided on Christmas Day to do this trip!!
- Dave - currently living in Zurich - I think formerly from Stellenbosch, IT industry
- Howard ... used to be in South Africa - now lives half his life on his yacht and the rest doing crazy things like this tour
The Germans are in the picture below ... Marcus, Patrick and Gerhard
Lots of other interesting people. The Tour leader is Jack - he did the tour two years ago and decided in the first week that he'd come back to help another time. Duncan - a Kiwi - did it last year and is assisting Jack. Shanny is from Canada - working for the organising company and is helping out for the first six weeks. We have a bike mechanic - Dean from Canada - not too busy yet ... but I'm sure he will not get bored!! The nurse - Elaine - works with the nurse who came thru last year and had heard so much good about the tour. Rachel - our sheep loving Aussie who is able to crash a bicycle on an open, flat, uninterrupted stretch of road by going over her handle bars ... thank god she is the communications person and not responsible for other more intricate stuff ... They are all totally chilled, relaxed and real good fun!!!
There are many others amongst the 32 riders. I'll touch on some here and there ... as I get to know them better.
