"At the border station to Niger we ran across a German tourist buss. The first section is a regular buss with seats. The second section a bee hive type sleeping pods."
"Curious and happy people lined the roads."
"We are still heading due east. We have now covered seven of the twenty-four days the trip will take. We have still not come to the desert - Sahara!"
"On the 22 December 1979 we crossed the River Niger."
"Arriving to Niamey - the Capital of Niger."
"We stayed one night at the Grand Hotel in Niamey. Again we met the German tourist bus camping on the parking area of the hotel."
"We steered east out of Niamey the following day - east towards Zinder. From there we will change heading to north - HOMEBOUND!"
"Roads??????"
"Untranslatable joke about calabashes."
"Zinder was a boring place so we decided to spend Christmas in the bush. We camped among the burdocks and decorated the Christmas tree with a small Santa. We were now heading north - the desert journey had began. "
"The surrounding became more desert like as we headed north. The roads disappeared and turned more into sandy tracks - piste. The vegetation disappeared ." Note picture bottom left: The beginning of a sand storm.
"North of the desert city of Agadez we found a 'paved' strech of road. Crash!! - a stone flying up from the road after a large truck splintered the wind shield of the bus into a thousand small pieces."
"An open air bar."
"The roads - if you can call several kilometres wide beaten sand tracks that - became worse as the driving went on. The vegetation consisted of scarce dry and thorny bushes"
