Previous Diary Entries
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2011
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Roomassare onwards north through the islands
Tue 1 Jul 08:05
Apr 2011
2010
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Statistics
Thu 21 Apr 08:38 -
Paper chase
Wed 6 Apr 05:42 -
Cleaning
Sun 3 Apr 19:16 -
Thanks
Sat 2 Apr 19:11 -
Home photos
Sat 2 Apr 09:48 -
Day 148: Mission Accomplished! Home!
Sat 2 Apr 08:29
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Day 147: Home strait
Thu 31 Mar 16:26
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Day 146: South Africa - 18th country!
Thu 31 Mar 06:58
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Day 145:
Tue 29 Mar 14:27
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Day 144: Orange River
Tue 29 Mar 14:19
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Day 143: Ai Ais and the thermal springs
Sun 27 Mar 17:52
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Day 142: Another lazy day
Sun 27 Mar 17:33
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Day 140: 20 weeks!
Fri 25 Mar 10:34
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Day 139: Wonderful country
Thu 24 Mar 06:40
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Day 138: Land Rover Repairs
Tue 22 Mar 18:10
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Day 137: Out of the Tropics
Mon 21 Mar 18:39
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Day 136: Windhoek
Sun 20 Mar 18:41
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Iridium phone
Sun 20 Mar 08:33 -
Congo roads
Sun 20 Mar 07:53 -
Day 135: Windhoek
Sat 19 Mar 18:07
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Day 134: Idling in Namibia
Sat 19 Mar 06:51
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Day 134: Etosha in the rain
Thu 17 Mar 20:04
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Day 132: Namibia, at last!
Wed 16 Mar 18:48
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Day 131: Nearly out of Angola
Wed 16 Mar 05:29
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Day 130: Lubango
Tue 15 Mar 07:28
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Day 129: Slogging it out through Angola
Mon 14 Mar 05:36
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Day 128: Good progress into Angola
Sat 12 Mar 19:41
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Day 127: Ready for Angola
Fri 11 Mar 18:51
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Day 126: DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire)
Thu 10 Mar 19:54
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Day 125: Cabinda at last
Wed 9 Mar 17:36
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Day 124: Stuffed by Shrove Tuesday
Tue 8 Mar 20:11
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Day 123: Pointe Noire life
Tue 8 Mar 06:19
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Day 122: Expat Sunday life
Sun 6 Mar 18:58
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Day 120 :Into Congo
Fri 4 Mar 18:25
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Day 119: Rain and more rain
Thu 3 Mar 18:39
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Day 118: The Albert Sweitzer Hospital
Wed 2 Mar 16:59
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Cameroon summary
Wed 2 Mar 16:51 -
Day 117: Lambarene
Tue 1 Mar 17:36
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Day 116: Lope National Park
Tue 1 Mar 17:17
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Day 115: Crossing the Line
Mon 28 Feb 13:10
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Day 114: Gabon
Sat 26 Feb 16:03
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Day 113: On the way to Gabon
Fri 25 Feb 20:29
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Day 112: Liming
Thu 24 Feb 16:36
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Day 111: Beach life again
Wed 23 Feb 13:41
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Day 110: Copped again!
Wed 23 Feb 13:07
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Day 109: Yaounde
Tue 22 Feb 06:30
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Day 108: Planning
Sun 20 Feb 16:24
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Day 107:
Sat 19 Feb 16:51
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Day 106: Back to the steam
Sat 19 Feb 07:51
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Nigeria summary
Thu 17 Feb 15:52 -
Road photos
Thu 17 Feb 09:52 -
Day 104: Enjoying the cool air
Thu 17 Feb 09:29
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Day 103: Cool air at 1,000 metres
Tue 15 Feb 17:47
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Day 102: Through the rain forests
Tue 15 Feb 17:31
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Day 101: Cameroon
Mon 14 Feb 07:17
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Day 100: Excitement
Sat 12 Feb 19:29
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Day 99: Into the forest
Sat 12 Feb 19:15
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Two thirds progress check
Thu 10 Feb 17:51 -
Day 98: Mountain air
Thu 10 Feb 17:43
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Day 97: On the move again
Thu 10 Feb 06:39
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Day 96: Champing at the bit
Wed 9 Feb 07:16
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Day 95: Angola visas
Mon 7 Feb 09:53
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Day 94: Waiting in Abuja (2)
Sun 6 Feb 12:33
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Day 93: Waiting in Abuja
Sun 6 Feb 12:30
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Day 92: Rain!
Sat 5 Feb 08:53
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Day 91: Abuja
Sat 5 Feb 08:45
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Day 90: A long hard day
Thu 3 Feb 11:59
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Day 89: Nigeria - the derelict country
Tue 1 Feb 20:21
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Day 88: Nigeria
Mon 31 Jan 18:03
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Day 87: Dahomey history lesson
Mon 31 Jan 05:56
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Day 86: Voodoo and motos in Benin
Sat 29 Jan 20:39
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Day 85: Another day, another country: Benin, country # 9
Fri 28 Jan 16:57 -
Day 84: Visa mission accomplished
Thu 27 Jan 17:08
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Ghana summary
Wed 26 Jan 17:35 -
Day 83: Heat is killing us
Wed 26 Jan 17:24
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Day 82: Country # 8 Togo
Tue 25 Jan 21:36
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Day 81: Fined again!
Mon 24 Jan 16:52
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Day 79: Camping by the sea
Sun 23 Jan 10:09
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Day 78: Good to go
Fri 21 Jan 20:50 -
Day 77: Accra again
Thu 20 Jan 20:13 -
Day 76: Day of progress
Wed 19 Jan 17:54 -
Day 75: LR problems
Tue 18 Jan 21:11 -
Burkina Faso summary
Tue 18 Jan 14:43 -
Tombouctou photos
Tue 18 Jan 14:29 -
Day 74: Accra (4)
Mon 17 Jan 21:07 -
Day 73: Halfway progress check
Sun 16 Jan 19:12 -
Day 72: Accra (2)
Sun 16 Jan 08:38 -
Day 71: Accra
Sat 15 Jan 14:34
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Day 70: The worst road in Africa
Thu 13 Jan 21:22
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Day 69: Ghana
Wed 12 Jan 20:11
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Day 68: Hamrattan
Tue 11 Jan 19:46
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Mali Summary
Mon 10 Jan 21:35 -
Day 67: Ouagadougou
Mon 10 Jan 19:11 -
Day 66: And Ouagadougou to you too!
Sun 9 Jan 21:25
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Day 65: Back across the desert to Bandiagara
Sat 8 Jan 17:34
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Day 64: Back to Tenere
Sat 8 Jan 16:47
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Day 63: Tombouctou and the Festival au desert
Thu 6 Jan 21:23
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Day 62: From here to Timbuctoo
Wed 5 Jan 16:21
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Day 61: Back in Bandiagara
Tue 4 Jan 16:20 -
Nigeria
Sat 1 Jan 14:51 -
Day 58: New Year's Day: Bandiagara
Sat 1 Jan 14:43
Dec 2010
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Day 57: Djenne and Severe
Fri 31 Dec 21:51
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Day 56: Djenne
Thu 30 Dec 17:28
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Day 55; On the road again - Segou
Wed 29 Dec 16:57
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Day 54: Bamako
Tue 28 Dec 20:13
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Day 53: Fluid balance
Mon 27 Dec 20:18
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Day 52: Boxing Day
Sun 26 Dec 17:22
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Day 51: Christmas Day Goat fest
Sat 25 Dec 15:28
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Day 50: Christmas Eve progress check
Fri 24 Dec 20:33
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Senegal summary
Fri 24 Dec 17:10 -
Day 49: Welcome to Bamako - fined big time.
Fri 24 Dec 15:08
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Day 48: Goodbye Senegal
Fri 24 Dec 13:53
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Day 47: Mali Border
Tue 21 Dec 17:59
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Day 46: Carnet de Passage
Mon 20 Dec 20:37
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Day 45: Dakar lay day
Sun 19 Dec 18:08 -
Day 44: Fine, again
Sat 18 Dec 20:22
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Day 43: Another day in St Louis
Fri 17 Dec 18:20 -
Mauritania Summary
Thu 16 Dec 14:17 -
Day 42: Boat trip on the Senegal River
Thu 16 Dec 13:51 -
Money
Thu 16 Dec 13:13 -
Day 41: St Louis
Wed 15 Dec 20:57
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Day 40: Nightmare border crossing (2)
Wed 15 Dec 18:37
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Day 40: Nightmare border crossing
Wed 15 Dec 14:21 -
Day 39: Fiche and fish
Tue 14 Dec 09:00 -
Day 38: 500 km of desert
Sun 12 Dec 21:21
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Morocco summary
Sat 11 Dec 21:36 -
Day 37: Across a lunar scrapyard
Sat 11 Dec 21:36
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Day 36: Into the Tropics
Fri 10 Dec 20:30
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Day 35: The day of the fiche
Thu 9 Dec 20:58
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Day 34: Nomad fesivalTan Tan
Wed 8 Dec 18:07
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Day 33: Fine
Tue 7 Dec 16:58
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Day 32: South by the sea
Mon 6 Dec 18:20
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Day 31: Agadir - the dregs of Morocco
Mon 6 Dec 18:18
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Day 30: Maintenance day in Zagora
Sat 4 Dec 21:01
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Day 29: Zagora
Fri 3 Dec 19:24
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Day 28: Sun, sand and Sahara
Thu 2 Dec 20:10
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Gas
Wed 1 Dec 21:07 -
Day 27: To the dunes
Wed 1 Dec 19:05
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Day 26: Tinehir
Tue 30 Nov 21:34
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The Kelly Kettle
Tue 30 Nov 07:21 -
Day 25: The two Gorges
Mon 29 Nov 07:40
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Day 24: On top of the world above the snow line
Sun 28 Nov 20:05
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Day 23: Rain and cold
Sat 27 Nov 19:26
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Day 22: More meandering in the Moyen Atlas
Fri 26 Nov 20:01
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Bargaining
Thu 25 Nov 19:53 -
Day 21: Meandering in the Middle Atlas
Thu 25 Nov 19:43
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Tagines
Thu 25 Nov 09:36 -
Day 20: Fes
Wed 24 Nov 20:30
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Fuel statistics
Wed 24 Nov 16:14 -
Day 19: Rabat to Fes
Tue 23 Nov 19:52
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Re: Day 18: Rabat and a day of contrasts
Mon 22 Nov 08:37
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Day 17: Volubilis, Meknes and Rabat
Sun 21 Nov 20:34
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Day 16: Campsite near Moulay Idriss
Sun 21 Nov 10:18
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Day 15: Tetouan, again!
Sat 20 Nov 16:28
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Day 14: tetouan
Thu 18 Nov 15:01
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Day 13: Africa!
Wed 17 Nov 09:50
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Day 12: Lazy day at Rio Jara camping
Tue 16 Nov 18:39
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Day 11. Tarifa - the southernmost point of Europe
Mon 15 Nov 19:42
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Day 10: Day with the petrol-heads.
Sun 14 Nov 16:34 -
Day 9: Andalucian hill climb
Sun 14 Nov 08:21
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Day 8: Antequera, Spain
Sat 13 Nov 07:21
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Day 7: Cordoba and the road to Grenada;
Fri 12 Nov 05:13
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Disappointments
Fri 12 Nov 05:09 -
Day 6: Fuente Obejuna, Andalucia
Thu 11 Nov 05:47
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Tirades: British restaurant prices
Wed 10 Nov 06:15 -
Day 5. Snow in the Picos!
Tue 9 Nov 18:53
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Day 4: Picos de Europa
Mon 8 Nov 16:37
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Day 3: At sea in Biscay
Mon 8 Nov 08:27
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Day 2: Newton Ferrers, Devon, UK
Sun 7 Nov 07:31
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Day 1: Sarratt, Herts, UK
Sat 6 Nov 08:09
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New contact and packing
Thu 4 Nov 07:24 -
Send Off
Thu 4 Nov 06:46
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Vehicle livery
Sun 31 Oct 20:29 -
Preparation: Insurance
Sun 31 Oct 19:52 -
Preparation: Communications
Fri 29 Oct 21:38 -
Routing and navigation
Fri 29 Oct 18:37 -
Preparation: Docmentation
Fri 29 Oct 10:00 -
Preparation: Medical
Thu 28 Oct 09:30 -
Preparation: Visas
Wed 27 Oct 13:19 -
The Vehicle
Fri 22 Oct 21:27 -
Why do we hate Banks?
Thu 21 Oct 10:30 -
Testing the Iridium Sat Phone
Tue 19 Oct 14:47 -
Testing the Sat Phone connection
Tue 19 Oct 14:13 -
Setting up systems
Mon 18 Oct 22:21