3-hour tour: Part III
January 8th 2006
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 woul
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