Yet another long drive to the border town of Moyale and the beginning of what is commonly known as the worst road in Africa and one which we were particularly dreading. We had managed the Sudan desert without misshap and were keeping our fingers crossed for this road as we have read so many stories of vehicles suffering major damange travelling this road and needing extensive repair when they reached the other end of the 500k+ road.

We did a bit of shopping in the market for supplies and changed some money with one of the many black market money changers as on the Kenyan side the bank's would not be interested in our Ethiopian money. They obviously don't give you a good exchange rate as they know you don't have much option especially as the next bank on the otherside is about 2 days drive away. The customs and immigration offices were both closed for lunch so we had to hang around for an hour waiting to do the paperwork. As usual Ethiopians come over chating telling you their life story and asking if we have any books we have finished with. When the offices opened the process although painless was typically slow as the Africans don't have a rush in them and sometimes start having a laugh and joke with a colleague seemingly forgetting that you are still sitting there. I was watching one woman official filling in the details from my passport into a huge ledger whilst chatting with a friend and had to laugh to myself when she completed it with the details of my brother, noted in my passport as the person to contact in an emergency, so much for security!!!

Once through to the Kenyan side, the officials although friendly enough were more officious as they greeted us with rifles slung over their shoulders. We found the campsite where we were to spend the night just by the border as it needed an early start in the morning to enable us to make the 255k of dangerous difficult road before nightfall. We had a lovely wild camping area totally to ourselves. We built a fire and Peter went into the village for a couple of cold beers.