Yesterday afternoon, November 14, 2023, six of us loaded our bikes and luggage into two taxis. We had learned from the group going the day before to make sure the drivers take the highway (toll road) as the normal road had four police stops and took a really long time. It turned out the highway was no better due to traffic and construction, but we made it.
The new airport in Dakar is really modern and comfortable. It doesn’t even feel like you’re still in Senegal. Check in was painless, even with big bike boxes and lots of luggage. I could check in my Bike Dreams tent that served me on the tours last year and this year. We pooled our last CFAs and bought beer and snacks to share. Boarding was easy and the flight was on time and even landed in Paris a little early.
It was funny, flying for five full hours, following the route we just rode from Paris, backwards.
Everything looks so clean and bright at Charles de Gaulle airport. It’s amazing. You can drink from the water fountain, the internet is fast and it’s a very different world. I am ready to head for San Francisco in just a couple of hours!
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Can’t wait to see you! Amazing you could fly that long route in 5 hours!!!
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Hi NATHAN,
According to our Neff Equipment calendar this is your homecoming day. Congratulations on a great and well-documented trip. We enjoyed your daily blog postings very much. A fine adventure.
All’s well here. Work on the mudroom stopped for a couple of weeks with Kelly working on a bathroom remodel for a family with ranch houses in Clover Valley and at Secret Pass. I’m doing a “lesson” for the family this evening. The subject is the Ruby Valley Treaty of 1863, a contract between the US and the Western Shoshone designed to take over any indian rights to gold and grazing land and applying to land about equal in area to the state of Nevada. Carol is working on a talk for next Sunday’s sacrament meeting with the subject “Joy and Happiness”, a pretty upbeat title.
So glad your trip went well.
Much Love from Carol and me
p.s. Greetings to Katie as well 🙂
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