Leaving East London
Leaving East London
Team Bulldog
Team Lipstick
Team Icevan
Andre and Rene searching for the road leading into Gorongosa park from the East – According to Map and Garmin there should be a road branching to the left …………….. but none can be found
Still no road ………… 2 very confused brothers…
The root of the problem – damaged shock and broken spring with compliments of that old man Emu..
Three of Dar es Salaam’s highly motivated car repair technicians changing shocks and springs for team Lipstick. Note their adjustable support structures..
Charles of team 2 wheelers attaches his bike with this well-engineered bracket to their support vehicle in order to give the bottom end of his back some well needed rest…..
Setting up bush camp in an old sand quarry….
Brunch time in the desert and deciding where to go
Total makeover for old Lipstick
After having stayed at a catholic mission near Kilimanjaro the previous night…
Camping site on Lake Turkana
Hardly stopped for brunch and quickly surrounded by locals appearing from nowhere
and this shows a typical breakfast buffet with all necessary ingredients to keep the team lipstick in tip top condition
approaching Khartoum
and organising our fold up chalets and bar counters
feeling like the first humans landing on moon
Elao teams finding a 4 bedroom house next to a museum for a stayover
then Icevan to be followed by Bulldog
Lipsticks fits neatly across the width of the barge
the harbour of Wadi Halfa
…and proudly presented their new invention – a right hand site assistant shock absorber to replace the weak central shock normally engineered by BMW – Munich take note….
In the meantime the bikers offloaded their vehicles ….
And windscreens were cleaned by speedy experts in this field
A waiting game testing the teams patience to the limit
Bulldog , Lipstick and Icevan finally parked at the pier waiting for the ship to arrive
team members hoping Bulldog would shut mouth
David made sure that regular stops on the well maintained highway between Alexandria and Cairo were obeyed … to shake the bones and refill refreshments….
parking Lipstick in Klosterreichenbach at the Braun factory
The teams and their vehicles
Good luck team ELAO, I loook forward to hearing all the stories and hopefully catching up for a few beers on route somehwere.
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the BEERS always be cold.
Salaat!!!
To TEAM BULL DOG…. WOOHOO!!!!!! So excited for you guys! We will be tracking your progress through Africa. Enjoy your last few days at home. Lots of love, Binks xxxx
All the best Team Bulldog. Have a fantastic trip and look forward to sharing the experience with you guys. Bon Voyage!! Regards
Soak in the African experience through your pores/paws.
Team Bulldog all the best we hope you have a wonderful trip and may everything go according to plan !
Hi Guys…..from Toronto Canada. This is Rob Harraway – Lesley Meyer is staying with us at the moment and sends her love to Mike and the rest of you lunatics !!!!! We hope you are surviving okay and enjoying the adventure. We know Africa is not for sissies and you okes are not sissies, so assume you are slagging wild dogs and the rest and getting lots of protein. The Recces in the old days could live for weeks on grasshoppers and no doubt you will live like kings out there in the jungle. Avoid locals with big cooking pots and bones in their noses… Once a Buffalo always a Buffalo…