It’s oh so quiet… it’s oh so still…
Created on 27 February 2013
I’ve waited for as long as I could tonight, but it looks like it’s another night of “no news must be good news”, so here’s a post from me, snuggled up in bed.
I can elaborate on yesterday’s news by saying that they had a “massive” ride from Ouarzazarte to theNomad camp at Chicaga. If you look on the google maps link to the GPS co-ordinates I was sent in the report, you can actually see the tents in the desert. Try zooming in a little. Oh OK, I’ll zoom in for you. 
How cool is that? Can’t see the bikes though.
The report was that they had had a massive ride out and that my Dad, Colin White, there for his 70th Birthday present, was mentioned in dispatches; in that he had done really well… for an old git. The first day’s ride was long and over varied terrain, ending in very physically demanding sand in quite hot conditions. By all accounts all bikes and riders had performed really well and were settled down by the camp fire.
So what to do in the mean time? Well, last night I settled down to watch the documentary “Madness in the Desert: Paris to Dakar” (Madness in the Desert is available on BBC iPlayer) and really gives a flavour of some of the conditions in the Sahara around this time of the year. Well worth an hour of _anyone’s_ time. It’s going to be shown again on BBC HD on Monday evening, 9-10 p.m. so don’t forget to set your recording devices. More details on the Radio Times website
So, not really a lot to report. I don’t know about you, but I feel like listening to a little Bjork tonight…
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