Meridian Lodge Benin City

... had ord**ed dinn**!!! So we had to sit and wait for them in 45 degrees. Nice. The road got worse as we continued, and it was impossible to sleep. Even if we had a mini bus I think we must have passed ov** a 1000 cars on the way. Th**e was a lot to see on the road, burned out cars, dead goats, and even a dead p**son, who had driven of the road. Was not a nice sight and it made me a bit scared. But as we got away from the town the view was amazing, green all ov** and massive palm ...

... cov**age purposes as well as safety) to take a circuitous route instead of the main expressway which passed through some areas of conflict. All roads in south-central *****ia, howev**, seem to conv**ge into one s**ious bottleneck - the bridge across the ***** at Onitsha, one of the greatest scenes of anarchy I've ev** exp**ienced. *****ians must be the world's most aggressive driv**s to begin with, but h**e thousands of cars w**e all jostling for ...

... line. Most of images in my dream and the sequence of events w**e both rath** vague but had to do with being back in New J**sey and revolved around in working in low brick urban office building in a city that I think was New Brunswick. I also seemed to somehow be involved with prop**ty development in Atlantic City and rememb** showing off some scale models of buildings to clients. I seemed to spend a lot of time in my car ...

At last, the past months have not been easy, a lot of work and a lot of rough events around us. A nice trip is very welcomed. So we are off to Ghana. We'll first stop in Benin Republic for a couple of days in the same hotel as easter. This time no bikes only car !!

We drove the two hours from Ogbere to Okomu with more than 18 road blocks. Each of them using a different technique to stop us. Most of them were friendly and wondered where we where going. Even 18 "friendly" road blocks its a lot ! We finally arrived in Okomu we were happy to see my wife and baby. She did not recognize me at first. As planned and even before ofloading the car we took a nice motorcycle ride in the Okomu tracks.

... in the same time, so not much was done. Corentin, my cousin is coming along with me, his aim is to arrive on time to take a ride on my old Yamaha 250 YZ before going back to Europe. For now, I'm in *****ia, Corentin is in US and the car is in France. We are both doing the necessary pap** work on our side. And I'm struggling to construct a chassis for the extra tank... left in France ...