To do, and not done

Look to the left, and you can now see what we've got left to do before we go, and what we still need to get hold of. If you can help, please get in touch!

Go, Garmin, Go

Lovely Garmin have offered us a nuvi 660FM GPS with Africa maps! That should make the trip a lot easier. Cheers

Now we're on Corsa

Now we really own a car for Timbuktu, an M-reg Vauxhall Corsa with 99,500 miles on the clock. The leaky head gasket will *probably* survive another 5,000 if we keep the oil flowing. Other than that it just needs a service and a new exhaust! Phew!

...and a laptop

Our friends at Panasonic have very kindly agreed to loan Monkey Runners a desert-proof Toughbook for our journey, so we can keep in touch with our blog and edit all the photos and video we'll be doing along the way. So if anyone wants to give us an HD camcorder for a few weeks...

We've got a car!

Well, almost. Quiz-mate Isabel has offered us her old Corsa for the price of a smile. We'll be checking it out next week, but hopefully it's in good order and the Monkey Runners will have some wheels. And a smile costs a lot less than £100!

Has anyone got an atlas?

Ingredients:
2 Monkeys, Alex & Sylvia
1 car for less than £100
1 map
No clue

Directions:
Ask boss for 6 weeks off work. Drive 4,500 miles from London to Bamako, Mali, for 21 days at gas mark Hot. Raise loads of money for Water Aid and auction the car for local causes if it survives. Continue to Segou for the festival if we've got time. Fly back to London. Bake for a year in the office and repeat?