When we first came up with the idea of doing this trip, a lot of people asked if we would have a website.  It seemed like a good idea at the time - we could keep everyone informed of our whereabouts and share stories and photographs from our travels.  Our big problem was that neither of us had the first clue on how to set a website up, nor the time to start learning given that we were on the countdown to the start of the journey with a million and one other things to do.  In stepped Jonathan Groves from an organisation called Urban Design Squad.  We met Jonathan during our charity fund-raising at the National Adventure Sports Show and he kindly offered to set up a website for us.  I wrote the blurb about who we were and what we were doing and Jonathan translated this into the site which included page templates for the journals and photographs.  It was a huge success.  We used our laptop to write  the journals and edit the photographs, which were then burned on to CDs and uploaded online via Internet cafes (even the most remote places in South America had Internet Cafes so access was never a problem!).

The big problem came in 2006, when we started the North American leg of the trip.  Just before leaving the UK, the host server (where the actual website is stored) was upgraded and this affected the on-line editor we were using to make our updates.  This meant we could no longer add new material or change the few remaining functioning pages to advise everyone of where we where and what was happening.  We also lost all of our journal & photo-galleries.  The on-line editor turned out to be home made and Urban Design Squad couldn't fix it, despite repeated promises that it was all under control.  What made things worse was that we were told 3 times it was all done and to go check on the web.  It was never fixed and we remained without the website for all of the last leg of the trip.  It was one of the most frustrating and infuriating episodes of the whole journey.  We were travelling through the USA & Canada, our bikes emblazoned with the website address and Cancer Research UK Logo, with people queuing up to make donations to our charity fund through a website that wasn't working.  We had been let down big time.  In the end we binned the whole of the original site.  This current site was self made using Microsoft FrontPage and is the first complete version of the journey.