Day 151: Wish Me Well
This will be my last blog entry for a little while. I leave on HMS Deathtrap tonight. I better leave you all some particulars.The name of the boat is the…
Day 150: Voodoo Economics
The two boats that I might have had an outside chance of getting on have said no (not surprised when I'm not there in person to charm them).I'm beginning to…
Day 149: The Answer’s No, Now What’s The Question?
All of the stuff that was supposed to happen, all of the stuff that Mentor ‘had a good feeling about' has come to nought. Still here, with not a clue…
Day 148: Limbo
Still waiting on Mentor to get me on a boat. I'm sitting here in the pile of concrete, dust and junk that is Dakar, twiddling my thumbs. Maybe tonight I'll go…
Day 147: Go On Then, Just This Once…
I got on the internet this afternoon and GUESS WHAT?! I will have to go BACK to the Gambia because after checking my GPS, I discover that I was picking…
Day 146: Night-Trip to Gambia
So Mentor and I hit the streets to find a way to Cape Verde. We go down to the beach where all the fishermen are. Mentor makes some phone calls,…
Day 145: It’s Gonna Cost Ya…
And so my journey took me to the most expensive country so far. More expensive than Japan, Norway and London PUT TOGETHER. I am talking, of course(?), about Senegal.The Sept-Place…
Day 144: Er, Why Are You Here?
I stayed in Auberge Du Sahara camping in Dahkla and would thoroughly recommend it. It only cost about a fiver and they even made me dinner. In the morning, twas…
Day 143: The Sahara, Again
The bus dropped me off in the desert town of Tan Tan at 7am. The guy in the ticket office back in Rabat assured me there was a ‘connecting bus'…
Day 142: Access Granted
I just found out that this change in the rules about getting a visa on the border came into effect LAST WEEK. Bad timing or what? And apparently there is…