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Day 19: The President is Coming
Two hours ago I was feeling a bit low, it was a horrible day on the bike and i was starting to think i may have to go off road a bit to find somewhere to camp. I am now sat on a game reserve park bench eating…
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Days 19 & 20 – To come
Just letting everyone know all is OK – I will be doing blogs for these days tomorrow – Teasers: – I nearly met the president of Senegal, I slept near some lions and went for a walk with them this morning – as in walking alongside them like…
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Day 18: To Dakar
Dakar is probably most famous for the Paris Dakar rally but, now I am past that area, I can let my family known that the rally is now held in South America. The area I have just travelled through is regarded as too dangerous. So far Senegal has…
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Day 17: A Dodgy Day
This will be a long post but bear with me, it involves a scam, an arrest and me being separated from my passport and bike by the Senegal river. I left Steve early yesterday morning (thanks again for your hospitality) for the Senegal border and Rosso. Described by…
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Day 16: Not as Planned – So much better
Distance: 230km To get a Senegal visa the procedure is to pay online and then take a confirmation email to the border and deal with everything else there. Despite several unsuccessful attempts to do the online bit overnight I decided to go to the Senegal embassy in Nouakchott…
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Day15 : What did you do today?
Distance 560km, Western Sahara to Mauritania Well I did these things: 1. Woke up in a tent on a warm sandy beach. 2. Rode my motorbike through the Sahara desert 3. Crossed the tropic of cancer 4. Exited Morocco and braved their customs 5. Crossed no mans land,…