J71 – 11/8/2001

Thursday , November 8th day 71

Miles/day : 49,7 (80km) Total miles : 3093,2 miles (4977km)

Daily running time : 10h30min

Daily average speed : 4,72 miles/h

Towns crossed : Lorena , Cruzeiro , Itatiaia

Next stage: Resende

East of Sao Paulo

While I’m typing these few lines which have become daily now , but I hope never too monotonous, thank you for your generosity !!! our Sergio is relaxing … An angel going past , and the rest of the team does the same . How beautiful generosity is !I must say that as far as

sleeping time goes, we are far under the limit . The news of the day is that Brazil has lost 3-1 against Bolivia , here too we are getting close to the summits. It’s not national mourning but not far from it . Anyway our Brazilian drivers are still at work to ensure the race, bless them . Two journalists have joined us and will stay with us till the arrival, there should be news broadcast on T.V and on the radio as early as tomorrow . Two new faces, that’s good for our brains .

Well, Serge is getting better and better and that’s great.

Bye, all goes well