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Tuesday

1/31/2012

When we arrived in Guinea 10 days ago, Jean-Louis wanted to ride a few touristics roads and do some serious trekking and I wanted to get lost in some mountains villages, so we did separate and just got back together tonight.

Jean-Louis enjoyed his time doing a 2000ft up and down trecking of 15 miiles in 9 hours (go figure ???) and he also get stuck with his sidecar in the steep hills of Guinea.

As for me, it was total immersion. The day i left Jean-Louis, I landed in a remote village in the mountain and i stayed there for one full week with my new friend Diallo.

The whole village welcomed me greatly. Every year, the village see a car of tourist passing by, but they never stop, because they have no reason to stop. Last time a tourist stopped there, it was an American on a bicycle who slept there, needless to say, they had a lot to share with me and I have a new place in the world where i can stay as long as I want !!!

On top of the daily life of the village, there were the celebration of a new born baby, a funeral, a ceremony at the school, a reunion of delegate from all the surrounding villages at the village's Mosque...

I have a lot of photographic and video material that I will put together in the coming days.


With Diallo in front of his store in the middle of the village of Kansado Missigé


Monday

1/23/2012

In Guinea Conakry people are very hospitable and very joyful to see a couple of tourist riding through their villages.


It really feels good to be back on the road !!!


Friday

1/20/2012

It took us time to move out of Bamako but finally, we did !!!


The monkey was killed by a shot gun to feed the village with the 30lb of meat.


Thursday

1/19/2012

We are on our way to Guinea Conakry but we will stay on the North-East side of the country to go to Ivory Coast and it is quite a remote area, so don't expect too many internet connection !!!

 

Today, we saw a Belgium guy with his wife on a KTM going to South Africa and an other couple from Australia and Germany on 2 Endfield diesel "Sommer" also going to South Africa. We will meet them again for sure.


Felicity Aston is now a stone shot away from the finish line !!!


Wednesday

1/18/2012

With our visas for Guinea Conakry and Ivory Coast, we will try to find a boat to go from Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo or Benin to Cameroun !!!


Tuesday

1/17/2012

While being in Africa this january, I have nostalgia of the white winter, thinking of my friend Pourou in Mongolia or all these trucks drivers in Siberia that you can see on this video.

During this winter, I am following this amazing British woman Felicity Aston (33) who is crossing the South Pole solo on ski pulling a sledge since mid-november.


Felicity Aston should cover the last 318km to safety by the end of January.


Sunday

1/15/2012

Thank you for your generosity, Ilya, Madina, David and all the team "Ural USA", we got all your parts to do our regular maintenance and one more time, we will leave with our two sidecars pratically like new !!!

http://www.thetimelessride.com/US/Video/Siberia.htm


Burkina Faso - Mali - Gambia - Senegal - Mauritania - Morocco - France - Switzerland

Thursday

1/10/2012

We got our Malian's visa, the parperwork for the sidecars are also in order. We change the front and rear tires on both sidecar, we now start working on finding the best way to go south !!!


We installed the new connector with the toilet pipes from Giorgio to connect both carburators
from Jean-Louis' sidecar to the left air filter -- the right one was taking all the dirt on the road.


Tuesday

1/10/2012

3:00am Auberge Djamella in Bamako.

I met Jean-Louis in Casablanca, him coming from New York and me from Paris.

We just arrived at the auberge where everybody is sleeping.

Tomorrow we will get our sidecars and start preparing ourselves.