Peter was facing health problems over the past few days (he came with cold from Slovenia – what kind of weather do you have up there in Europe?!), and today was a headache turn. We decided to cure it with help of a cargo train (picture above). But as we weren't satisfied with off-road on four wheels, we copied the recently started rally Paris-Dakar on two wheels also and went into the dunes. But since we didn't bring motorcycles from Slovenia with us, we had to pick up two invisible motorcycles we found (it was quite hard) in the desert. When descending a hill, Peter entered soft sand with high speed and made a great salto over his invisible bike's invisible steering bar. He got a few lesser injuries while doing that. When I hurried to help him I stepped off my invisible bike and we never found them again. :-(
In late afternoon, pretty close to the Bahariya oasis in Western Egyptian desert, we used once again the old air-bed (exactly the one that is leaking air) as surf for descending a huge sand dune. The perfect day was concluded on the entrance to the oasis with a mushroom risotto, cooked and eaten under a tall eucalyptus tree.
9.1.2004 | Bahariya oasis, Egypt
Peter and I woke up a few hundreds of meters off the road to Bahariya oasis and the first thing we did (well, one of the first things actually) was to correct the mistake we did last evening – to dig the car out of the soft desert sand. It was actually a routine rescuing of a slightly dug-in Partner, but still, Peter thought it would be easier to get it out. Then around 40 kilometres of off-road driving in semi-soft sand followed and Fulda tyres did a good job – we dropped the pressure from the official 2,6 to 1,3 bar. They didn't slip off the rims and they also didn't overheat despite slight damages on tyre sides, caused by sharp stones.
