Right now its 3:30am local time and I’ve just woken up. I wandered off up to our hotel room while Mike was busy whipping off some news for the website just after lunch at 2pm, lay my head on the pillow and have just woken up. Since I’m not someone who can almost ever sleep

It is hot and humid but beautiful … right now I am sitting in a Mexican restaurant overlooking a bay with white beaches. The US Virgin Islands…what is with the virgin bit exactly? I am exhausted but elated – James has gone off to sleep. I am tired but need to write even though I

Mike & James arrived safely at Cyril E King International airport after flying for 16 hours. They had a bit of rain during the night, and the satellite tracking system kicked in for a short burst over Martinique, and then started up again approximately 45 minutes before landing. Fortunately the Australian satellite tracking team had

At about 2:30 SA Local time the aircraft satellite tracking system had brief contact with Mike & James, but unfortunately it was just for a short while. Sias Dreyer confirmed that ZU-TAF had had contact with Barbados air traffic control…so far their progress is looking very good. In the meantime, have a look at some

Mike and James decided to reschedule the departure to the US Virgin Islands, and left at 11pm (SA Local Time). We had enough time to test the IndigoSat satellite tracking system earlier and moved it to a spot where the signal was picked up better by the satellite, but unfortunately on departure we did not

Mike and James’ arrival was covered by one of the local TV stations in Brazil. The first coverage snippet is approximately 1 min 17s into the video, and the second news clip follows just after the first.

Wow, what a world – we’re in Belem, we were welcomed in by supporters, now we’re in a lovely little hotel and neither Mike nor I have written a word or sent a picture since arriving; yet there are images on our website and everyone seems to know that we’re safe and being looked after!

Thank you very much to Robbie Weich who made sure Mike & James got a warm welcome on their arrival in Belem. Click here to view Robbie’s Flickr photo album.

We just got off the phone with James & Mike in Belem, Brazil. Though they sound tired, you could hear they are in great spirits after completing the 4,044km trip from Guinea. We will give them some time to relax a bit, and update you later with more news. One thing we learnt today is

Although we do not know exactly where Mike and James are all indications that we have reassure us that things are progressing well. People have asked how they would indicate an emergency; in theory they have 3 options available to them. First they would dial an emergency code, called a squawk code, on an instrument