Saly, Senegal - Sunday 30 December 2007 - Good bye to Eli

Time accelerates when you really are in a party mood... Not that we have been ecstatically partying around the clock during the festive holidays, but being surrounded with really good friends, good food and numerous gin & tonics has been a great party for me. How fortunate I am to have Rune and Eli as friends is something I never will stop to cherish and it is hard to describe the relationship on “paper” without getting too emotional. Our female companion Eli left the team on Sunday morning on her way to Gambia to catch the charter flight back to Norway. What she brought along this year made her Santa of the year and I am not entirely thinking of all the gifts and traditional Norwegian food alone. That she decided to join us after so many weeks of uncertainty and problems is amazing and something that turned Rune and me into two very lucky men.
Thanks a lot Eli for a short but great time and we wish you a safe trip back home. The rest of us are again heading north, this time further north towards the Mauritanian border. We hope to arrive at the “overlanders” paradise Zebra bar on Sunday to make ourselves ready to jump into the New Year 2008.