Congratulations to Humphrey and Jim on their epic journey – “After Samara we went to Jeffreys bay a great party spot and an awesome beach. On the way there we spotted a animal breeding programme and went in for 30 minutes or so and got to play with lions cubs and a tame cheetah that would chase you about and try and catch you pretending your an antelope or something, then a much larger but thankfully much more chilled out fully grown cheetah as well, the lions cubs were adorable and classic lions, so lazy, all they wanted to do was sleep and anything else was a massive effort!

After this we headed to Jeffrey’s and stayed there for 2 nights and a big bus load of German girls turned up which was great and I managed to flatten my tent one night from which it has never fully recover. After Jeffrey’s bay we headed for the Bloukrans big swing which until recently was the highest bungie jump in the world until like 3 or 4 years ago when they built one off a sky scraper in Hong Kong, the Bloukrans Bungie is 216m from the Bridge you jump off to the floor and you fall 195 and reach terminal velocity and everything like that, its amazing! The first guys that went in our group of three just screamed and screamed his way down then Jim went then me. The way they wrap your legs considering your about to jump off a bridge isn’t as clinical as I’d like, they basically just wrap it around you lots of times and it feels pretty loose when you jump because it tightens as you put weight on it, so when you bounce back up it lossens again and then tightens and loosens, pretty scary but so much fun! As you walk out there under the bridge the walkway is steel mesh under your feet so you just look straight down ontot the valley floor, or you do if your an idiot. I didn’t look straight down the whole time until I jumped, they don’t give you a choice anyway once you’ve paid they literally have forced people off crying and pryed there hands from the safety rails and then thrown them off, ha ha! From here we headed to Plettenburg bay for the night before we’de head to Cape Agulhas the Southern tip of Africa to get “the photo” which I have attached.


 We just had a relaxed night camping in Plet and set off the next day with just a few hours to got until Cape Agulhas and my number plate was hanging off so I just stuck in my pannier, error. We were about 1 hour away from Cape Agulhas and driving past some Traffic Cops (who are not generally as nice as regular cops)and got pulled over. They started telling us our UK road tax was out of date, bastards, we had a big go at them about the fact that whether or not we were paying tax in England was completely irrelevant and got really annoyed. Jim got off free then they started whinning that both my indicators were snapped off and I didn’t have a back light or number plate or a left wing mirror. So he wrote me out a 500Rand fine (£50) and I got really p****d off and had a proper go at him and sellotaped my plate on and argued and argued about the lights, eventually we got it down to 200Rand which I have no intention of paying since you do it via post so they’ll be waiting for that money for a long time and headed on to the Southern most point, about 300metres away my Camera ran out of memory I actually missed the turning and Jim got really frustrated trying to get me to stop and then his Camera ran out of battery, so we sorted all that and drove right up to the sign and put our bikes on it since no one was around got a photo and nicked a pebble for myself. Overall it was 9854 miles, 7 countries and 2 deserts, it was an incredible trip and all I can think about is others I want to do across Russia which has always drawn me.”