DIARY - Saturday 3rd November 2007 Watching the first installment of 'The Long Way Down' my conscience pricked me. All the fitness training Charlie and Ewan were doing for their trip and what was I doing for mine? Sweet F.A. as the saying goes. Out came the baked bean cans and I started doing a few 'hup downs', you know the sort of thing - all for upper body strength. After all if I dropped the bike this time I was going to have to pick it up myself. It was hard work all that upper body exercise. By next week I shall progress to full cans of beans! Ok, so I joke. Actually the day before I was up before the larks and had ridden 120miles up to the Lake District, left my bike outside the Old Dungeon Ghyll in Langdale and by 9.30am I was trotting up Troughton Beck from Mickleden and up on to Pike O'Stickle. What heaven to be up in the hills, even better to know that my GS was down in the car park for the 120 mile ride home. It was a good job my bike was there, because by the time I got back I was fit for nothing but sitting on it. Lungs and legs, don't they play up when you don't use them enough! My passport with the visa for Cambodia arrived back this week and the travel insurance taken out with Campbell Irvine came too. Not cheap at £134 but Mick and I had used them for our Mongolian trip in 2005 and they cover travel by motorcycle which many insurance companies don't. Hopefully I won't ever need the repatriation cover. Work is very busy at the moment, it seems all the would be motorcyclists want to do their tests before next October and the changes to the practical test. We might run out of customers next winter - who knows, I might just have to disappear again with the lack of work!