Motorcycle Explorer August 2014 Issue 1 | Page 24

Travel Story: lisa morris and jason spaff In exchange for £2,400 each, we rode onto a Grimaldi container ship and accompanied our bikes across the Atlantic from Belgium to Montevideo, Uruguay. The crossing took twenty-seven days, incurring only a two day unscheduled stop to seek permission to unload cargo off the coasts of West Africa and South America. Friends asked beforehand if we needed to work our passage or sleep in a container - er, no to both! We saw it as a poor man’s cruise; passengers were secondary to the cargo although we were assigned a decent cabin with en suite, served three meals a day with good table wine and enjoyed the company of two other passengers. It was relaxed and we had ample time to dolphin-watch, indulge in some light exercise inside the basic gym on board and learn some Latin American Spanish.