Getting stuck in the Sahara
“It is at moments like these that you question your sanity…here we were, two guys from the UK’s home counties in the middle of nowhere with a hand built, fully loaded, three ton vehicle—up to its belly stuck in soft Saharan sand—and it was getting hotter by the minute!!”
“Feeling helpless, my mind was now racing so again I turned off the engine in case that too gave up through overheating. We should have fitted a winch! The idea being that the spare wheel is buried deep in the sand ahead, a line is attached, and the car extracts itself, simple, but we had no such winch.
Break down in the UK and you are nearly always in somebody’s way or on a double yellow line it would seem. At least here we were not a problem for anyone else. But that was exactly our problem, there was nobody else – and not for miles! Looking out through the open windows there was indeed no activity, in fact no movement or noise of any kind. We would have to rescue ourselves with what we had on board.”
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