We finally wearily rode into town last night at 10 pm having had to ride the final 70 kms in the dark due to having been delayed by my chain jumping off the sprocket at one point- and tring to find a solid piece of ground to do repairs in the desert is not easy.
Then my headlamp fixings both broke -thanks to an earlier bodge job fix-it from Clive (when we were in Bordeaux 3 weeks ago) I knew all I needed to fix the headlamp was a piece of wire,
however where do you find wire in the middle of the Sahara at 6pm on a Tuesday evening?
A burst of inspiration - my bra!
Yes the underwire worked perfectly, we did the repairs and rode on through the night with a headlamp working well and a semi-functioning bra!
A late night river crossing an a large dugout canoe (nobody told me there was a big river to cross- I thought this was the desert).
The locals assured us that two GS bikes could easily fit in the boat and they were right- though the boat was low in the water.
It feels great to have got here- and they even serve cold beer.
Time to rest, watch the camels and then think about coming home.
Then my headlamp fixings both broke -thanks to an earlier bodge job fix-it from Clive (when we were in Bordeaux 3 weeks ago) I knew all I needed to fix the headlamp was a piece of wire,
however where do you find wire in the middle of the Sahara at 6pm on a Tuesday evening?
A burst of inspiration - my bra!
Yes the underwire worked perfectly, we did the repairs and rode on through the night with a headlamp working well and a semi-functioning bra!
A late night river crossing an a large dugout canoe (nobody told me there was a big river to cross- I thought this was the desert).
The locals assured us that two GS bikes could easily fit in the boat and they were right- though the boat was low in the water.
It feels great to have got here- and they even serve cold beer.
Time to rest, watch the camels and then think about coming home.