LIBYAN BORDER CROSSING & DRUG DEALERS Thurs 20 Mar 08 Day 19 Jerba - Tripoli, Libya I've had a 'bad toilet' day with some serious smells of urine reeking from holes in the floor. I don't recommend visiting a toilet at a border! The drive to the Tunisian border went well with us arriving at 12pm along with the craziest of Tunisian drivers. There were 6 rows of cars for a 3 lane crossing through border control. As we were patiently waiting, queue jum...

I PROMISE WE ARE NOT PIKIES! 29 Mar 08 Day 28 Hun - Benghazi 920km I slept like a log and we were up and ready to go by 9am.This was our longest drive yet as we headed north to Gadaffi's home town, Surt, out of the desert and back to the rugged coast line. There was vast amounts of nothing again, with a flat horizon and dead straight road for miles. The only amusing thing was watching cars piled 3 times as high as themselves with all sorts of things from...

Thus 27 Mar 08 Day 26 Akakus Mountains - The Lakes Km The Guides have been doing some talking and are very concerned we aren't up to driving over the massive dunes to the lakes. The dunes around the lakes have been bothering me and Bruce so far has done a brilliant job driving in the sand, but we had hoped for a little more teaching from Masood, but with the language barrier this wasn't possible. They also operate in Africa style, not ever telling us the ...

Drive of Nothingness Sun 23 Mar 08 Day 22 Tripoli - Sabha 800km We left the hotel at about 9am after a nice breakfast of egg and cheese sandwich and nice coffee. Andy and Noeleen needed to get some Euros so we relaxed at the cars while they went on an unsuccessful Euro hunt. While we were waiting I had a chat to Rob which was nice and then we hit the long, long road to Sabha. Not much more to report on today. A few fuel stops, dead camels, dead bat eared...