Dakar, Senegal
Wednesday 16 Januar 2008

We are ready again

The squeak sound is sorted out and the diagnoses was a broken brake-pad mounting. I have rotated the tires and also sorted out some electrical problem so we are ready to do the last lap up to Morocco without too many pit stops.

As they say up there, InshAllah!

To be honest (and one should...all the time) my stay in Senegal has been a rollercoaster holiday together with good friends, without so much cape2cape influence as hoped. Those of you that read these pages regularly knows the reason for that and for my guests, I am truly sorry and it means that we have to do it again...and again...and again.

After I left the workshop on Tuesday I got close with one of the local police officers because of a traffic offence. I admit, I did a horrible turn in one of the roundabouts and was correctly stopped. I was sure to get a fine but everything he got after starting to ask for cadeux was a lollipop. I guess he was so suprised about my way of paying him that he started laughing and let me continue the journey.

My plan now is to drive up to Zebrabar close to St Louis in the north (again) and head north into Mauritania on Thursday or Friday. The thing is, I have to be out of Mauritania by Saturday.

Then I will meet up with the next co-pilot (my cousin) in Marrakech in Morocco in the beginning of February (Geir Tevassvold).