chez_vince RESPECT!

I've read your blog, GREAT!!! Ones wheels are an important part of the adventure, and I applaud your choice.

My scooter is a 200 cc and is much faster than your moped. Still, 200 km a day seems right. If I only averaged 33 km/h, took a 10 min brake every hour and a one hour brake mid-day, I would be able to travel 200 km's a day...

I'll probably ask a lot more detailed questions in due time, but right now I am in the general planning face.

There are some direct questions I would like to have answered.

1) How much travel time did it take you to get from Dakar to Tanger?

2) What is the distance you travelled from Dakar to Tanger?

And a direct question to everybody else:

3) How long in kilometers/miles is the fastest route from Tanger to Dakar? Is it really only 3000?

4) How much time would it take to travel this route, not stopping over for anything but sleep, rest, food, shit and shine?

If I knew the answer to these questions, then I would better be able to know wheter I should make my first leg shorter, or if I indeed would have more time to cram in some stay overs and excurtions, or if I could make my leg longer.

To me, 3000 kilometers, if that is indeed the distance, in two weeks time, on mostly paved roads, seem like more than adequate time. Yet I wouldn't know as I have never done something like this before, nor do I know if the distance I talk of here is factual. Nor do I know how many extra days I need to put in due to border crossings and related paperwork, etc (hours or days?).

Agian, I greatly appreciate any input of any kind.

[This message has been edited by Wheelie (edited 29 October 2005).]

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