Yearly Archives: till 16 September 2012
September 16 – day 87
Sunday September 16 2012, Today we take it easy, that means no driving, we make plans for the coming days, catch up on our emails, but we also say goodbye to our guide Naty and help the new team, Jon … Continue reading
September 15 – day 86
Saturday September 15 2012, We leave the SOS village in Meru where we stayed two days, we like to thank the staff and the kids for the beautiful time we had. They escort us 30km on the road after that … Continue reading
September 14 – day 85
Friday september 14 2012, We are still staying in the guesthouse of SOS Meru and we’re going to visit a National Park nearby. It’s amazing to see all the animals from such a short distance. We take beautiful road back … Continue reading
September 13 – day 84
Tuesday september 13 2012, We have a short trip to Meru where we are going to visit a SOS children’s village, the manager, Peter Wambugu and his team are waiting for us at the road. What a warm welcome they … Continue reading
September 12 – day 83
We woke up early in Liasamis, after a quick check, Dirk discovers that the stirring rod has broken for the third time! We find a welder and reinforce it with an extra piece of metal, now it must hold. It … Continue reading
September 11 – day 82
Again a day of driving through the dust over rambling roads, we drove from Marsabit to Laisallas, which is small town in the middle of Kenia. Underway we have met two Geman adventurers. One on a 24 years old BMW … Continue reading
September 10 – day 81
It’s desert day today, we have a whole day to cross a desert which is a 130 km drive, an extremely bad road. Dirk told us that the roads in Mongolia are very good compared to this! Because of the … Continue reading
September 9 – day 80
We are in Kenia, for us it’s the third country, for Dirk and Trudy the eleventh. We’re going to have a tough ride ahead of us, especially for the cars, the roads are terrible, extremely big holes, rocks and some … Continue reading
September 8 – day 79
We drive today to the border town Moyale, slowly the nature get dryer and the green hill we saw in Ethiopia are gone. It’s a short distance to the border, so we arrive well on time, we even have time … Continue reading
September 7 – day 78
This morning Dirk found, after a thorough check, that the steering axe of the T-Ford is broken, it needs to be welded and after a few hours of working on the car we are ready to go. Today it’s Arnaud’s … Continue reading