Leaving Gambia

We leave here on wednesday, weather permiting, there has been no interweb jobby, here for a week due to the spectacular storms,

I serviced both bikes yesterday and they are running great so we head off for Guinee conakry and the chutes de kinkon,
a fairly dumb move as its up in the mountains and its the rainy season, we only aim to ride if the sky looks OK,
we should have some good photo,s next time we interweb

Village life

This was the 1st village in Senegal that we found, we were knackered after about 35km of off road after the canoes,we camped here for the night,

Sods law the main tarmac road was about 1km further on

The taxi service in Morocco

Found this guy broke down in the middle of nowhere , I gave him a lift to his village 40km of twisty mountain pass on my already heavy bike,

I,m working on the principle that what goes around comes around

Senegal customs

You can see why we missed it can,t you

more of our river crossing

Bruces bike is in the second canoe, I,m already on the Senegal side with the money still in my pocket,

No wife and bike, No money for the ferry lads

Waiting for some info

Our next leg involves going back into Senegal, south and then into Guinee heading for the Chutes de kinkon but we are recieving conflicting advice about this route, when I know I,ll post it, By for now folks

Timbukto 53 days, Bruce is facing the wrong way

The photo for the last text

This was the family who took us in and fed us, really nice people who made sure Bruce was fine and they fed us a evening meal and gave us breakfast and water the next day

Some plant that seemed quite common in Ketama

Cascades D, ouzoud, simply spectacular

Bruces knackered

This was after her third fall off, not very happy and another 80km to go, it was at this point I had to find us somewhere to stop

Ferry crossing from Mauritania to Senegal

here we are on the "Ferry" from Mauritania to Senegal....

Ferry crossing from Mauritania to Senegal

Happy people

We are currently in the Gambia and we really like it here, we sorted all our passport problems out in Dakar and got new tyres for the bikes, we came out of Senegal at the ferry near Sukone where we spent the previous night at a place called hotel caymen, I broke my side stand and I cannot tell you how helpful the owner was in helping me get it it welded, real nice people so if your ever in Sukone, this is the place to stay.

I will be back on here tomorrow as I have found a english teenager who is solving all my photographic IT probs, expect a more comprehensive blog with piccies tomorrow, Pete n Bruce

2000km of desert in 4 days

still alive, southern Morocco, nothing works no telephone no ATM machines nothing; then folks into Mauritainia and a whole new world of what a dictatorship is like, if Sweet FA worked in Morocco this place is the pits.
We decided to get through it as fast as poss. 10 passport checks in 150km, this in 45deg heat,its about 1000km of shithole desert to get through.Stressed damed right
we took a wrong turning at Noukachott and wound up on the road to Aleg, as we have no plan there is no such thing as a wrong turning, right, so as we could see a border crossing at Bohgie we carried on.
Yes there is a ferry across the river there, trouble is its 3 bleedin canoes, sooooo, what do you do when its 450km to go back.
Bikes loaded into canoes and off we go, got our passports stamped by a guy under a tree on the Maurutania side, on the other side nothin except 30km of dirt track and its now going dark,
We are now in Senegal totally illegal and nobody to stamp our passports and more important no water or food and no Senegal money, hey ho,happy days.
We are not muppets and set off with food and plenty of water, as much as we could carry on the bikes.
We were knackered and found a villiage that let us put the tent up next to the elders gaff, Senegal is a revelation after the shit hole that is Mauritainia, smiling people happy kids food and water.
We slept like logs and in the morning set off for St Louis, got collared coming into town for no bleedin insurance, never mind we have no entry stamp on the passports, still havn,t we will tackle that later today
We do now have African insurance the guy who pulled us was cool about it and arranged it for us instead of locking us up.
Installed at the Hotel de post in St louis, all is very well, beers 2 quid and cold, food is great, every one smiles, even this internet cafe works cos bugger all in the last 2000km has, Bruce is well happy cos we are gettin some washing done by somebody else,
We need new rear tyres for the bikes and this is our project for tomorrow, do we get them here or have them DHL,d to the Gambia,
Watch this space