We all arrived in the early hours of this morning, everyone had their fingers crossed that the Gambians built better runways than roads as the plane took off. Driving from the airport this morning in the dark was very strange, we are so used to driving at night at around 20 mph, incase a stray donkey or goat jumps out infront of you, or a taxi could be coming the other way with no lights, or a massive pothole could be in the middle of the road, so cruising at 50-60mph felt a bit un-nerving and I found myself dodging dark coloured manhole covers and any change in colour in the tarmac. Its going to take a few days for it to all sink in I guess, andwe understand the little mini will be going into the auction on sunday so i'll keep you all posted on how much it fetches. Just want to say a huge thank you to all the people who have helped raise money and sponsor our crazy journey, Advanced Chemical Etching and Demand technology, Qualitech, 3M , Minimail, Powerful Metal Manufacturing LTD and the staff and pupils at Abbey grange school for the fund raising for the yorkshire air ambulance - I'll update the final total soon.
We are planning to upload all the photos from all the teams on one big website which might take a week or two (i have about 200 photos alone!) but I will post it on here, also we had a professional film crew travelling in our convoy through the desert and they will try to sell the documentry to a television station at some stage, the apparently have video footage of the mini airbourne! (and a few heated arguements between us and Mr Hadrami- our hapless local guide!).
more to come
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Welcome home guys..
See you soon//.. I will leave you a week or so to settle back after *culture shock* has lifted.. ;-) I know the feeling well...
Later dudes..
Giselle
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