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8 May 2015
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July 7th Returning to Africa to finish what I started. Morocco to Cape Town.
Hi Guys,
Im returning to Africa to continue my trip down through West Africa. Ill be back in Morocco in July to collect my bike. I had a big off in the Sahara Desert and busted up my collarbone and had to return to Australia for the operation and recovery.
Im hoping that I someone might be heading off to Cape Town around then. I had not planned n being that far north in July but these things happen.
IM traveling on a KTM690 Adventure.
Hope to catch up for a and a chat. The Adventure must continue.
Patrick
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Would be good to catch up with you; we hope to be in Tanger the morning of 15th July and heading down to Abengourou, Cote d'Ivoire as quick as our 9 seats & 4 wheels will take us
Do keep in touch!
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Would be good to catch up with you; we hope to be in Tanger the morning of 15th July and heading down to Abengourou, Cote d'Ivoire as quick as our 9 seats & 4 wheels will take us
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I land in Morocco on the 7th. Have to go collect my bike from the camp I have it stored at then making my way straight to Agadir were I have a mate. Ill be servicing the bike and making sure its all ok after my crash and then heading down to Dakar as fast as I can go also. Its going to be real hot and I dont want to be hanging around there for to long. So Would be great to catch up.
Patrick
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A picture is a 1000 words.
A couple of pictures that tell a thousand words. The sand dune and the resulting injury from going over the handle bars in the desert.
Can tell the story about it if we ride together. Over a couple s.
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Nasty looking crash, hope you've fully recovered!
Yes, the heat isn't going to be fun but we only have this window to get our minibus south (providing the paperwork comes soon!)
So we'll see you somewhere ... possibly night-stopping in Tan-Tan (which I adore) or else Tarfaya (which I've yet to see & it's of particuarly aeronautical interest to me)
Looking forward to sharing somewhere before the border.
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Have a good ride brother!
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30 May 2015
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Quote:
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Would be good to catch up with you; we hope to be in Tanger the morning of 15th July and heading down to Abengourou, Cote d'Ivoire as quick as our 9 seats & 4 wheels will take us
Do keep in touch!
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You anymore news on what your plan is. I will be in Marrakesh on the 8th and looking like Ill be in Agadia by the 11th. Im still planning on going as quick as I can to Dakar then will go with the flow after that. Im really not looking forward to the hot desert at that time of year!!
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5 Jun 2015
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This is a rough guide of where I plan on traveling when I reach west Africa. The red pins in Morocco have already been visited before I hurt myself.
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12 Jun 2015
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Great to hear you are back patdavey! We just finished our West coast trip and now in SA going back up from east.
I see you wanna go to Nigeria, or you have to. We heard a lot of storied people having super hard time to get visas in Benin/Togo. Ghana should be easy but we got ours in Burkina Faso, super easy!
Good luck!
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12 Jun 2015
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hellou patdavey..i hope that you are ok now and full recovered..me and my husband we want to go in Africa start in oktomber and we have almoust the same route like you..it will be a big help.when you have time.to give us some tips about visa for Mauritania,Mali..Thank you and good luck on your adventure.
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hellou patdavey..i hope that you are ok now and full recovered..me and my husband we want to go in Africa start in oktomber and we have almoust the same route like you..it will be a big help.when you have time.to give us some tips about visa for Mauritania,Mali..Thank you and good luck on your adventure.
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Hi Lallya35,
I will be getting my visas along the way. The one visa I was going to get in my home country does not have an embassy (DRC) My Mauritania visa was easy to get I got that in Rabat Morocco. Copy of passport 2 passport pictures and the money. Had the visa 4 hours later. Senegal I had to do the online application. I have heard this has change and Senegal has dropped the visa cost from the 1st of may. I dont have anymore visas as yet but will get my next lot in Dakar when I arrive there.
Hope this helps a bit.
Patrick
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Hi Patrick.
Thanks for your time to answer me.I hard too that you don"t need visa for Senegal and for South Africa.but i am not 100%.. Yes it is a help every tips to be inform.I will appreciated in the future if you let as know what are the trick to getting visa along the road for each country.
My name is Alina.Lallya it"s my name in slovak language.
Thank you and take care,enjoy your ride.
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Anyone in Morocco at the moment? In Agadir getting ready to ride south.
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11 Jul 2015
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We have had to postpone our trip to December or so, hence I'm about to fly down. If you're in Cote d'Ivoire do get in touch!
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Hi Patrick?
How far south are you at the moment?
I'm in accra, ghana waiting to get visa's to continue travelling north-west.
Always good to meet up for a
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