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Old 16 Jul 2006
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Hi everybody,

I will leave for west africa mid october on my own, francoise is not coming. I will go to Senegal where I have some carritative work for 3 weeks (refugy village)
So my plan is to reach Sete (near Marseille) take the boat to Nador (Morocco) and then trough the much more scenic roads of the east atlas join south of morocco (I know morocco very well).
Btw. : I am the coordinator/organiser for the Belgium meeting, so to all going south in september come and visit us the 9 th in Belgium !

cu

Norbert
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So have any of you hooked up and decided to travel together as a result of this thread? I was planning to go to Africa around this time in 2007 (I don't want to wait, but I'm waiting on a couple of friends) but I'm getting antsy and want to leave sooner... and since people's plans always change I think it's risky to wait a year for these guys when they could very well bail out at the last minute.

Any insight on the fastest turn-around time in regards to showing up in the UK, getting a travelling bike, getting it titled and getting a carnet?

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Old 14 Aug 2006
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I don't think any of us has got together yet to chat about going to Africa. If you really want to get everything together ASAP, then the minimum time is two months. This is due to getting the carnet sorted out. Something I'm working on this week.

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Old 14 Aug 2006
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I'm interested in possibly starting out with one or more of you on this trip. However, if what Wild Bill says is accurate about 2 months to get crap sorted out, it would put me way behind. After getting myself to the UK or whatever European departure point, I'd have to find a bike, get it titled in my name, and get the !?#*ing carnet.

It looks like some of you are planning to start out in September, which would make things difficult. If plans have changed and you now have a later departure date, please contact me, also send a tel #, preferably landline: stevenwherever (at) yahoo (dot) com

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Nottingham UK to Kenya Jan 2007
Hi All. I was going to start a new thread, but this seemed a good place to join.

My friend Howard it looking for some company on a trip down to Kenya in the New Year. The plan is as follows:

Leaving Nottinghm, UK 1st week of January and heading through:
Europe
Algeria
Niger
Nigeria
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Dem Rep Congo
Uganda
Kenya.

Timing, 1st week of January, arriving in Kenya early March.

Would anyone like to chat about joining him on all or part of this journey? Howard is using an F650 Dakar.

Feel free to email him: dde (at) southwell (dot) anglican (dot) org

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David
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Almost Time!!!
Hey everyone just want to let you all know that are involved in this thread that I am leaving in Three weeks along with my girlfriend who has decided to come along so getting all her stuff sorted just last finishing touches to go. She will be on an XR 250 Baja, I actually have started to think I should be on one, its a cracka of a bike.

So should hit Morocco at about the start of October so if anyone is around or in a siniliar area do not hesitate to try and get in touch, I will be trying to update our blog as often as we can and check emails also. We will be travelling inland down to Agdir then the coast. So enjoy everyone and hope to see some of you guys on the road.

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