Post script

NZL04 is "home" to stay. There will be no more adventures so the old Dakar is officially retired. So any new adventures will be aboard NZL07 or a new machine. I was going to ride her off the wharf at Bluff when the Top to Bottom ride was over. Truth was I couldn't bring myself to do it after carrying me round the world without serious incident I felt she deserved better. So she will eventually hang in the shed. Its hardly a McLaren or a Formula 1 but it served me pretty well and took me to places that I hadn't even dreamed of. One of the pictures on my screen saver is the Tomb of Cyrus the Great. He rests in a largish stone edifice ( or so we are told) in the middle of an empty paddock at Pasargad. The town that was supposed to surround him moved down the road and was Persepolis, until Alexander the Great came along and it was burned down. I am lead to believe the "whorehouse" was saved but I suspect it was rebuilt ! (Thats the story anyway). The part of the story that I was leading to was despite our friend Cyrus being the ruler and richest man in the world at the time he still ended up under a pile of stones on his own in a paddock. So the lesson is its a short life so better enjoy it while you can. Now what, well watch NZL07. She is about to head off on an adventure through Europe to Morocco. That should happen in September. See you then and stay upright.