d-2point0's Blog

As many of you may know I am taking part in the Plymouth to Dakar rally. A colleague and I will be setting off tonight, to drive to Portsmouth to catch a ferry bound for France. The plan is that we will then drive through France, Spain, take a ferry over to northern Morocco and then on through Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and finally arrive in The Gambia in about three weeks time.

If we make it, the car will be auctioned off and the money donated to two local charities.

The Gambia is a small, poor country that struggles with having a population the size
(roughly) of Birmingham and a land area that is more the size of Scotland. More than
75% of the population are subsistence farmers and therefore desperately needs all
the support it can get....