NAIROBI START 20 FEBRUARY 2023

After the Dakar I flew to Cape Town to deal with some  " incidents and accidents, hints and allegations, will you be my bodyguard or my long lost friend "  as Paul Simon would have put it.

Was great to sleep in a bed and have home cooked meals and be able to shower in a nice place and have coffee in bed. Had a most enjoyable holiday meeting up with old friends and wives, swimming daily at Fisherman's Beach, was not that easy to leave .

Dakar was yet again another great survival expedition, non stop for three weeks and covering 7500km chasing the race.

Arrived here at 3am on Ethiopian Airlines , which had good food and gret service which I wasn't expecting. Ruth picked me up at the airport and took me to Jungle Junction.

So will head down to Mombasa tomorrow, stopping along the way and load the bike into a container with eight other guys on the 27th and arrives in Salalah Oman on the 5th March. Then will mozy up Oman and the other Gulf States to Iraq. But once I meet the other motley crew and see what they are up to may change things a little.