Ted travels the world in 365 days

for Cuzco peru

Goodbye BAR!

Well its the 28th of october 1999 and i've handed in my notice at british american racing, 4 and a half years of working as a sparky in f1 teams, first it was tyrrell, i thought that was hard work, then to bar when they bought tyrrell, complete shitfight, so ive knocked it all on the head to go travelling, and blow the 10 grand i have saved enjoying myself and seeing the world, the following is a kinda diary of what mischief i get up too.

this is it! one month later, i have deconstructed my life even sold my old car! ok for 75 quid but its better than nothing
its saturday the 27th of november and im in lima, peru on day one of my trip, when i arrived last night i went out and got drunk with the taxi driver that collected me from the airport, good laugh but the pool playing was abismal, we were so bad we ended up just seeing who could get a ball down, very sad, then on the way home he was ratted and driving like a nutter, he copped a bit of a nark at me telling him to 'tranqilo' and he made me drive, bad idea , im bad enough sober, but i got  back to my hostal ok, hostal is nice, very clean got my own room ect and $15 seems cheap, but im already over budget from last night, still, it will get cheaper as soon as i get out of the big cities, maybe tommorow,

Just went into town and saw all these nutters jumping off this big cliff over the sea on these parasending?  parachutes well cool, so i went and had a chat with them, turns out its a school for it and a trial lesson was 20 dollars, so i had to have a go, before doing it, one bloke landed on me, ouch! but it was owesome, not him landing on me, the actual thing, I was strapped to an instructor and  the parachute inflated and off we went, it looks a bit like a giant version of the powerglide kite ive got,very scary but what a view, and the feeling of freedom, really flying like a bird, all you could hear was the sea and the wind, it was only for about 10 minutes but great, bang goes the budget today as well! 35 dollars a day is a bit optimistic,

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