All the usual commotion in the night, with the soccer teams returning and yahooing round for ages and then the music in town cranking up and playing through till dawn, so as is often the way in West Africa not…
Beating all the trucks everywhere (Stage 45)
Unlike yesterday which went entirely to plan, just on a very long timeframe, today didn’t really work out on any scale other than everyone ended up in the right place! At riders’ meeting last night Max had said that the…
Everyone loves a waterfall (Actually stage 35)
Even colder last night than it had been the previous night – 8 degrees under my very, very wet fly – the drop in temperature overnight meant the water had to go somewhere, and a lot of that was on…
Back to the hills (Stage 32)
So this seemed like it was going to be such a good spot right up until the point they started the generator just as we were getting ready for bed. The noise was one thing, but the real problem was…
Visiting St Louis (Stage 23)
The combination of hot ground, a cool night, and the high humidity meant my tent fly was as wet as a fish when I was packing up this morning. There’s an option to rent a bungalow at the campsite we’re…
Back inland again! (Stage 7)
I slept so well last night – I was in bed by 2030 and asleep about 1 min later I think . A quick trip out at 0230, and the next thing I knew someone nearby was packing up their…
Another day of climbing (stage 106)
In summary wet overnight, cold in the morning, but dry as we packed up hung out at camp and was last to leave hills – lots of hills – big steep, slippery hills lunch was super early at only 64…
Climbing, climbing, climbing (stage 105)
The Reader’s Digest Condensed version out of town on a pretty rough road thankfully no rain big climb up a dam following a pretty cool river valley lunch in a chilly but picturesque spot out of the gorge onto a…
Retail therapy before a ride (stage 95)
Unlike us, Iranians don’t rise early! I decided that I was going to stay in town this morning until I could change money and make my purchase before setting off to ride today’s stage. Fari has located a money exchange…
And back again (stage 91)
We’ve spent the last four days criss-crossing back and forth over the range of hills which separates the inland valleys from the Caspian Sea and today was no exception, though by the end of the day we’ve come far enough…