Family Affairs and other matters

My friend’s friend’s brother is one of four mates who have embarked on the motorcycle adventure of a lifetime across South East Asia to raise much needed funds to help educate abandoned children in Cambodia.

They have a website if anybody is interested in either sponsoring them or following their journey which sounds mega exciting. Here is the latest update:-

BREAKING C2S NEWS.

ONE RIDER AIR LIFTED OUT OF THE JUNGLE;
THE OTHER THREE SPEND THE NIGHT IN A LAOS GAOL

Details are sketchy as contact with the boys is limited to text messages and broken phone calls.

‘Johnny’, the rider who replaced Tom on Sunday, had a freak encounter with a concrete pylon in rough off-road terrain in the remote jungles of northern Laos on Wednesday afternoon. He came off the bike, severely broke his leg and had to be airlifted out to a Bangkok hospital. He was operated on Thursday and reports out of Bangkok are that he is resting post surgery until he is strong enough to return to Australia.

The medivac helicopter raised the concerns of the local Laotian Police force and landed the 3 boys (Geoff, Paul & Mat) in gaol overnight on Wednesday with their passports confiscated. It would seem that the locals had never seen a helicopter and were mistrusting of how and why the boys had arranged for it to be in their jungle!

After exchanging the obligatory ‘incentives’; the boys were un-arrested late on Thursday, and have their passports back. They are now faced with the dilemma of how three riders get four bikes out of Laos and across the border to Vietnam. So far the solution looks like it goes on the roof of a bus on Friday morning!

What happens next will be the next news flash! Stay tuned!

To get more information the link is http://www.city2sunrise.org/