Posted in on Feb 27th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – Boujdour – 1/22/2023
Up, out of bed and across the main street to a small hotel with a restaurant. And a sleeping restaurant owner. A local wakes him and tells him that there are a dozen or so people who want breakfast and that rouses him pretty quickly. He starts us off with tea and flat bread. He […]
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Posted in on Feb 17th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – El Ouatia – 1/21/2023
It’s just barely getting light when we go down for some breakfast of flat bread and omelet. It’s very cold in the first floor dining room. The fire from last night hasn’t done much to warm the room and, when I go outside to start packing the car, the wind is howling. I sure wouldn’t […]
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Posted in on Feb 12th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – Tisi-n-Test – 1/20/2023
We (the five cars that have formed into what is rapidly becoming our “group”) leave Marrakesh after breakfast. We’ve decided to head pretty much due south, away from the autostrada that would bring us back to the coast. Instead, we plan on following some smaller, two lane roads into the Atlas Mountains. The paper map […]
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Posted in on Jan 25th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – Marrakech – 1/19/2023
The ride to Marrakesh is just a slog on the multi-lane autostrada. Complete with tolls, fast food and expensive fuel. The road is so like every other toll road in the world that you have almost no idea that you are in Morocco. To make matters even more universal, when the autostrada dumps us into […]
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Posted in on Jan 25th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – Meknes – 1/18/2023
It’s only a slight drizzle when we leave after breakfast. We are headed for the fables Marrakesh but first we must get to the car which back up the cobbled street. Up isn’t actually an adequate word for the climb back to the parking area. Because it was raining and we were a bit lost […]
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Posted in on Jan 22nd, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challange – Chefchaouen – 1/17/2023
We’re up at 6:30 and at the car at 7:00. It’s still dark but weather has come in over night and it’s raining and quite windy. Now, in addition to wondering if the car will start (we expect it to since it’s cooled overnight), we’re wondering if the 9:00 ferry to Tangier will run. The […]
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Posted in on Jan 18th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – Tarifa – 1/16/23
Out to the car and try to start it. It starts fine which is what has been the usual, it starts fine when it’s cold. We turn of the engine, wait a few minutes and try to re-start the engine. Nothing, zip, nada. Another Challenge member, Angela, works in Gibraltar but leaves here in Tarifa […]
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Posted in on Jan 18th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – Tarifa – 1/15/23
We leave Salamanca with Clemo driving. Clemo didn’t shut off the engine when he arrived and parked in a car park next to the railroad station. He’s going to drive out of town and then hand the driving over to me. He’s driven solo for over 600 miles and he needs a break. We stop […]
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Posted in on Jan 16th, 2023 Comments Off on Banjul Challenge – Madrid – 1/13/2023
1/14/2023, Salamanca – I’m still asleep at 9:30 when I get a call from Clemo. The car has started. There’s also a change of route plans: gthey want to pick me up in Salamanca rather than Madrid and, not surprisingly, there’s a bus from Madrid to Salamanca. “That work for you?” “Sure. C’ya in Salamanca.” […]
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Posted in on Jan 16th, 2023 Comments Off on The Banjul Challenge – Still in Charlotte – January 12, 2023
1/12/2023 – Still in Charlotte. Hope early. In the car with Barbara. Off to the airport. Not much traffic (at least by Charlotte early morning standards. There’s no line at the Delta counter. (I must be way early. I am.) Board just before 9 and depart a few minutes early. On the flight to DTW, […]
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