Serious question about a half baked idea!

[zedsdead]

Hello everyone.

Well I have made it to Ouagadougou and now I am trying to work out what to do next.
I believe the Nigeria/Cameroon border is still closed and anyway I have yet to read a really positive thing about Nigeria as far as traveling through it goes. With this in mind I started to look into a boat out of Tema to somewhere south. This is still being looked at but I am a virgin to all this and at the moment I am getting more questions than answers.

So....... whilst enjoying a I thought why not just ride east young man, head for Khartoum. Looking at the Map there are reasonable roads as far as Ndjamena, my thoughts are; Niamey, Birnin-Konni, Zinder to Lake Chad. I hope there is a ferry across the lake. Now after this a road is shown to Abeche, El Fasher and ElObeid, al be it a dirt road. At El Obeid that thick red line of reasonable road returns up to Khartoum.

So with the wisdom of not much the map says it is possible. I am in no rush and have no issues with wild camping and roughing it. In fact in some respects I prefer to camp this way, life is just easier. Now the big question. Other than the distance is there a reason not to try? I know of the political turmoil in places but unless I am really advised not to by someone in the area I tend to take the government websites with a pinch of salt. I know they are looking after me but they are sometimes a big heavy blanket over too large an area.

If anyone has anything to say about the plan please pipe up! Information is definitely the name of the game about this.

Cheers Zed.