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This blog is to record my trip from Calum's Road in Scotland to Calum's Road in The Gambia. For 20 years, Calum MacLeod toiled alone to build a road to his croft on the island of Raasay, near Skye. He began the arduous job in the 1960s after failing to win public funds for an upgrade, and his exploits featured in the best-selling 2006 book Calum's Road by the Raasay-based author Roger Hutchison. Now that story has inspired the building of a four-mile lifeline road for an impoverished part of Africa, supported by The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. To raise both funds and the profile of this worthy cause I will be joining a group of friends in January 2010 to ride on motorcycles from the site of the original Calum's Road on Raasay to the new Calum's Road in the Gambia Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. It’s also the most efficient way to sponsor me: The Gambia Horse And Donkey Trust gets your money faster. All sponsorship goes directly to the charity as I'm covering expenses for the trip myself. Thank you for your support. To sponsor me please visit Just Giving Website

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Change of Plans



Well the original plans should have seen us all heading north to Scotland today. Unfortunately, the weather in UK for the last few days has led to a change of plans. It is -15c in northern Scotland with thick snow drifts making travel by motorcycle basically impossible.

Plan B was to simply all make our own way down to Folkestone and meet up there on Saturday night 9th January. Unfortunately, the weather has again played havoc with our plans as the snow and ice has crept south. The forecast is for worsening conditions this coming weekend with snow right down south into Kent and northern France.

Plan C is leave as soon as possible to get to warmer climes. The problem I now have is simply getting away from home here in Devon. We awoke to snow and ice this morning as shown in attached photo. We live about two miles from a main road which means it is very difficult to travel by motorcycle as these minor roads are not gritted at all.

Latest plan is to review the situation on Wednesday morning and try to find a way to get away. Possibilities include loading bike on to trailer and taking as far as main road and then hopefully riding it from there in direction of Folkestone with the hope of crossing the Channel on Thursday.
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