A request for help this time round - more on the trip soon.

http://patonabike.blogspot.com/2012/...-not-been.html

Thanks
Pat

Back on the road - and it�s the end of Mexico � but not the end of me, despite shoot outs and hurricanes. Read on...
http://patonabike.blogspot.com/2012/...ar-mexico.html

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where are you now?

Alaksa - and time is running out (work on 1 August!)

didn't realize you were that far north, gonna miss you, i head out again july 25th but the furthest go north is Colorado heading west and then Toronto when i head east but i won't be there until Setp 20th

I hope the last few weeks of your ride is kick ass...just make sure you yield (give way) in both directions to the trucks on the dalton highway (haul rd) that means coming towards you and coming from behind, some of the loads they carry are so heavy the literally can not stop or will not stop by the time they see you, just pull off to the side of the road and let them go by

and watch out for the riendeer right by Prudhoe, they are as dumb as they come, they will run next to you then just turn and run at you, just be aware when they are close to the road, from a distance not a problem

Cheers fella - hope the fires are out in Colorado by the time you get there.
Pat

i'll know real soon as i'll be there in 2 1/2 days

Its onwards and upwards in the latest episode of Pat Around the Americas... well more like onwards and sidewards as we head more west than north after finally arriving in the good ol US of A.

http://patonabike.blogspot.com.es/20...-paso-usa.html

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Pictures like this inspire songs like this...
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N5akOOlGTI

The Triffids - Wide Open Road

Well the drums rolled off in my forehead
and the guns went off in my chest
Remember carrying the baby for you
Crying in the wilderness

I lost track of my friends, I lost my kin
I cut them off as limbs
I drove out over the flatlands
hunting down you and him

The sky was big and empty
My chest filled to explode
I yelled my insides out at the sun
At the wide open road

it's a wide open road, it's a wide open road

How do you think it feels
sleeping by yourself?
when the one you love, the one you love
is with someone else

Then it's a wide open road
It's a wide open road
And now you can go any place
that you ever wanted to go

I wake up in the morning
thinking I'm still by your side
I reach out just to touch you
then I realise

It's a wide open road
It's a wide open road

Thanks fella - there is nothing like the open road to inspire all sorts of feelings - and where better to record them than in a song. :partyondude:

I've also set up JustTextGiving for my Pat Around the Americas fundraising in the UK.

Using your mobile phone, it is quick and easy and (aside from the donation) won't cost you, me or Unicef anything.

Just text PATA50 �5 (with the amount you want to donate - �5 is shown as an example but it will work from �1) to 70070, and you'll get a receipt and the option to link to Gift Aid (which I recommend if you are a UK tax payer). Simples

http://www.patonabike.blogspot.com.e...xt-giving.html

Go on pick up your phone and take a second to help out those kids now. :eusa_clap::109:
Thanks
Pat