Day 97 Thursday 7 December, Pokhara, Nepal

December 08, 2006

Day 97 Thursday 7 December, Pokhara, Nepal

After we discover that contrary to our expectations we are not leaving tomorrow but the following day we spend a lazy day recovering, doing laundry and sitting by the lake eating burritos. Dinner is at a Japanese restaurant after which I3 and I4 decide to check out the local talent and music scene. Not entirely surprisingly we find our paid for tix back to Sydney have not turned up and that we are only wait listed. The agent says they're sending Harry Potter back on the bus with our money so we'll see what happens

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WELCOME

Welcome to IntrepidToo - a journey around the world by road and sea. What started as a road trip from Sydney to Europe in a BMW X5 became the Clipper Round the World yacht race, sailing from Sydney to New York, and more recently a catamaran cruise along the Central American coast.

The road trip marked the completion of the Asian Highway Project, a UN sponsored initiative to provide a common standard road network linking all the countries of Asia with Europe. Along the way it entailed visiting as many UNESCO World Heritage sites as possible.

Due for imminent completion, our task was to find out how far they've got. It was also a quest to find the best creme brulee between Sydney and Sweden and the best margaritas outside Mexico.

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is an 11 month long, 40,000nm race for amateur sailors in 12 identical 70' racing yachts, each with a crew of 18 and a professional skipper. We join in Australia for the legs to China, then across the North Pacific to Seattle and via the Panama Canal to New York, a voyage equivalent to the circumference of the globe.

It's also an occasional tale of continuing meanderings around the Middle East, Africa, Asia and anywhere else which takes our fancy.