Our ‘last’ few hours of adventure: Well, we thought we were quite the stuff, the first 20 kilometers out of Tomboctou on our Michelin-mapped road. Smooth, loose gravel road. Decent weather. New stocks of water and biscuits in our daypack, to last us the few hours we thought we had ahead of us. We made our first turn-off uneventfully, the road right where Mister Michelin told us it would be. We even stopped and had a quick look around, got some gas, drank some water. Commented on the scenery. Took a few photos. Bought some more high-quality biscuits, ‘just in case’. Then the road got a little sandy, a little washboard, some more sand, villages disappeared - and by the time we needed to make our next turn-off, the ‘road’ had all but disappeared, and
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