Turbo Daily

No that is not the pace of life which actually seems to be more like low idle and that is a good thing. Turbo Daily is the model of the mini van that drove us out into the Sahara desert. Our driver made sure to make full use of this fact and was passing vehicles on blind corners with a 1000 foot cliff on one side. Only once did we nearly get run off the road by a semi but not to worry we were getting close finishing our crossing of the Atlas mountains and there was only a 200 foot drop next to us. Every other group we saw out in the desert had a big Land Rover 4x4 which was a little worrying once we lost the pavement.

The desert is amazing. There were sand dunes that were like small mountains but 100 times as hard to climb..... trust me we did it and got all red in the face like we had just finished a marathon, we were racing against the clock to catch the sunset. At the top you can access the other side of the dune which has not been wind blown and is as steep as any double black diamond run I've seen, if only we had a snowboard or crazy carpet!

See Maria's blog for photos of the desert.