(Me before my traumatic experience! )I'd been planning on cutting my locks for quite some time. I knew that it would be a practical necessity when I got out to South America. There was no way that I could go out there with my hair as long as it was. Just to explain - I'm planning on not cutting my hair whilst I'm in South America and if I didn't hack it back before I went then by the time I reach Venezuela it will be vying for independence from the United States of Me!
I decided that a good way to raise money from my misery was to get the lovely people who worked with me at Barking College to pay me to do it! In the end I teased about £200 out of them. I was happy to have raised so much, but this was tinged with the realisation that I would acually be losing my lovely hair!
So at Midday on the 26th October at precisely 12pm my good friend Vicky started the process of hacking back my locks..... As you can see I wasn't very happy at the time!
(What a horrific sneer! )I soldiered on and eventually became resigned to the idea that my hair was going forever, well at least until I got out of this country of hair cutting fascists and made it to the hair growing Shangri-La of Argentina!
After much pulling of hair, wailing and gnashing of teeth my ordeal was over - my hair was gone - and I was bald.
You can find some more pics of my harrowing ordeal in our photo gallery HERE
This is going to be the first blog of many - and I can pretty much guarantee that it will be the most boring.
who really wants to know about me cutting my hair ay? I'm looking forward to getting the first "proper" diary entry up very soon. Just to let everyone know that we are leaving the UK at 20.15(GMT DST) on Monday 6th November. We arrive in Ushuaia on the 7th.... After we have ourselves nicely set up and ready to go we will probably be posting our first entry - chronicling our first impressions. Then after that we'll be bringing you one about our first few days on the road. Hopefully with some pictures rather more spectacular than a chubby bloke having his hair cut in an office in Barking!
Anyway, that's enough for now!
Peace and prosperity.
BigJay
