I'm in the glorious city of Miri at the moment - but only for another hour and a half, then we're off to Brunei to catch our plane home - they're a dry airline, words escape me - I fail to understand how you can go on a plane without gin. Eugh, gin, I've just remembered last night - things got rather messy at 'Cheerie Berry's', and I ended up back at our accomodation with a blow dart hanging out me butt cheek.
Our final week in Bario went really well, we managed to get the project finished, and it looked rather splendid. My signs went down a treat, although when we left the site the paint was still wet... and then there was a thunderstorm - shoddy cowboy workmanship.....
Sat and made the signs outside Nancy's house with small children clambering all over me trying to get involved. They tried to copy one of my signs onto a plank of wood - didn't have the heart to tell them that they're choice of balck lettering on a black background may not have the desired impact.
Our final day in Bario was a corker - after finishing the project we managed to reach the summit of Prayer Mountain, after our previous atempt was rained off. The top part of the climb really was a climb, straight up a narrow corridor of trees onto a small pinacle, there were the most amazing views even though I was cacking it. Had a bit of a moment looking over the rainforest that we'd tackled & the project that we'd built, hmmmmmm. After about 15 mins the wind picked up so we had to dash down, then it started pouring with rain causing a number of World Challengers to soil their shorts as they performed spectacular ass-slides down the steep slope, very funny!
Had a bit of a last night party in the Y2K - cleared the village out of Chapap Pae, and laughed on our way home as one individual tumbled into two paddy fields. He woke up the next morning still totally soggy with green shoots in his hair, I know just how that feels.
Left for Bario airport at about midday, and it was well nice, as most of the villagers came to see us off. Was kind of glad to get out of there though, being stuck out in the sticks like that gets a bit mind-bending after a while.
I'm going to end now as there's not much ink left on these here keys.
It's been an incredible month - feels like 6 cos we've done so much, I think I need a bit of time for it all to sink in! I'll sort through al my pics when I get home and send you all a batch.
I'm off for a final blow dart showdown over the road, I'll be taking scalps....
Hope to see you all soon!!!!! Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee xxxxx
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