JPFreek - Index

JPFreek - Spring 2008 - Index

KEY POINTS – CHRONOLOGY/ THE JOURNEY
• Set off from the famous Raffles Hotel Singapore. February
1958
Burma
• Passports endorsed ‘ Enter Burma at own risk’ [p56]
• Flea infested brothel in Rangoon – one of the rare occasions
where they were unable to sleep in the Jeep! [p79]
• Traversed the infamous Ledo Road [p81]
‘Having salvaged a couple of planks from the
rotten bridge , we made a parallel track for the
Jeep, …a couple of rusty oil drums where we
picked up the start of The Ledo Road.’ [P96]
• Run out of fuel ‘somewhere near the Indian frontier [with
Burma]
• Roy packs his survival kit and starts walking to India in search
of fuel;
‘In advance of running out of petrol we’d agreed I
would walk to the Indian frontier , which would
take about three days, then hopefully return with
a full Jerry can.’ [p102]
India
•
Darjeeling detour;
• Met Tensing Norgay (Tensing Sherpa)
•
Crossings on The Ganges
• The Grand Trunk Road [approaching Delhi] [p125]
• Having run out of petrol, Roy hitched a lift on the back of an
old cycle [p129]
Pakistan
• Fractured chassis
‘Repairing a broken leaf spring, and more
importantly, a fractured chassis which opened
and closed when the Jeep was bounced on its
lifting handles …the terrain ahead, which
included the mountains of Baluchistan, was
guaranteed to split the chassis.’ [p132]
Baluchistan
•
Pathan Rebels – ambush.