2013 in review: 26 July

This is the beginning of the story of how I got myself in trouble, and cycled 877 kilometres from Butiama to Dodoma with Ross Methven.

It began when Ross was taking a break in Butiama on his Edinburgh to Cape Town cycling trip and was looking at route options from Arusha, where he had left his bicycle, towards Dodoma and southern Tanzania. I told him if he brought his bicycle to Butiama to resume his onward trip to Cape Town, I would accompany him with my mountain bike through central Tanzania. He did.

In the photo, he arrives in Butiama and within the next few days we began one of the toughest physical challanges I had faced.