5 days to go!

Hello! This is my first ever blog post, so please bear with me... I hope to update it as often as possible as I bike the 7,000 miles (give or take a few hundred) from Cairo - Cape Town that I will attempt to ride, starting on February 9th 2010. If I can work it out, I will add photos, videos and anything else that my currently limited technical skills will allow me to do. I sincerely hope above all that it will not be boring, so please feel free to let me know if it is and I'll have a go at amateur lion-taming or something. Nothing interesting to report so far unless visas, vaccinations or learning to set up a blog appeals to you, although I have met the people at the charity that I am raising money for, who have been very helpful. They are a small London-based team that directly supports projects that help disadvantaged children, primarily in Asia and Africa. I hope to visit one of their projects while on my travels if time allows... please do consider a donation to them if you haven't done so already (link).