Great to meet you recently. Great website, hopefully see you again soon!

Dave

Ian

Off globetrotting again?
Have fun, see you in April at Ratlinghope.

Martin

Hi Ian

Following your travels closely all I can say is that you are a real hero in your great venture just as you were with your underwater Scuba diving not only diving deep into wrecks etc but also as a great diving PADI instructor. I qualified with your training and still remember our diving in Zanzibar and all your good advice when I was going wild taking underwater movies. Those were the days and our days on the P&O;Cruise liners entertaining.

Love and best wishes from Benny & Betty

Just heard the news about Shrewsbury and thought of you. Hope you are safe and well Ian....you'd probably be safer driving though Africa! Best wishes for the New Year. Mike T

Dear Ian
we wish you a happy new year, and we hope, to see you somewhere again.
follow us o0n our webpage www.trans-geo.com
we restart 12th january in Windhoek and we shall turn to east africa (Sambia, Tansania, Lake Victoria, back through Tansania, Malawi, Mosambique to South Africa)
kind regards Erika and Jürg

He big man!

were are u now? did you go home already?

hahaha

Paco, the dutch one

Hi Ian

doing well eh. I'm getting dragged into the computer age by Sue so thought i would see where you are now. Take care Ann

He Ian,

still going strong he!
good on you.
Still at work in Holland and i bought a car to do the st.petersburg - bejing. Merc G 4x4 300D, i know not an escort. Maybe i will change my mind later, maybe.
For now its working working working to get travel money. Brother is doing the Artic Challenge like last year in january...sigh.
I want to go again.
Dont get into trouble Ian otherwise give me a call and i will send out the troops.

Good luck,

Paco

Hey ian,

just catching up,

also to let you know that your new uncleship should be to a boy (unless the ultrasound is seriously out!) in November!

Pete & Charlie

Hey Ian

Been really good to meet you and have you here at the Orange Elephant, Addo. Loved the storie about te ferry in Mali!!


Good and safe travels

John and Cheryl

Hi Ian,

the Dutch again. How are things going on then?
Maarten is in Thailand and i'm working in a hotelbar.
Life is not...a well i have more fun.
Miss the chat's and games though. also miss working on cars. Ford is still doing fine 260.000km now and screeming like a kidd. maybe i need to change a beld.
take care Ian.

Nice pics Ian, although you could have warned me and I would have polished my boots!!

Hi Ian, happy birthday for tomorrow / today,

love from Barbara and crew

Hi Ian. If you are still in KZN you should check out Stoney Ridge 4X4. I saw a programme on the Southern Africa direct channel in the UK (Sky 270 in which Andrew St-Pierre White did a whole load of offroad driving techniques there along with John Rich the centre owner and very experienced offroader.Well worth a look! Their website is www.stoneyridge.co.za and their GPS cooridinates are: GPS Co-Ords(WGS 84)
S 28º 45' 58.6"
E 029º 57' 29.6"

Have fun

Love the journal - if you do the trip again, can you gets some gaz canisters filled for me as well?

mother is not at all perturbed that you have no children

Hello Ian,

We met in Bandiagara a few weeks ago. I'm happy to see that things are still going well.
I'm back to morocco already. Enjoy!

Hi Ian. I look forward to your updates and the elephants look cool.

Hi Ian. Trip looks fantastic - makes our trips to Porthmaddog in the van look a bit dull! Weather looks dry as a 'bone. Good luck with the rest of the trip - Peter & Ally

Fantastic! - makes our trips to Porthmaddog in the van look a bit dull! Weather looks dry as a 'bone. Great photos. Good luck with the remainder of the trip - Peter & Ally

Nice one Ian ... sounds like a cool trip dude .....
look forward to a skype when possible ....
best wishes
Sylie

Hi Ian
Hope your well? Looks like your having lots of fun! Spoke to stephanie today. we still have lots of things to do before we leave :)Take care claire and gary x

Hi Ian,

Looking good! Tom was sooo smug to have been Skyped by you. We are all well here and keeping an eye on your progress.

Barbara and crew x

Hi Ian,
Pleased to see it is going so well. Got a new Edwards, couldn't stand 88H any longer!
Cheers,
Pete

Hi Ian,

Sorry I missed you before you went on your trip - I am so jealous, it looks like you are having the time of your life! We will be keeping an eye on your progress, and hope the kit does you justice, looks great! Have you done a deal with Landrover Owner? You should think about it! Stay safe, and we will see you when you get back!

Sue & Steve

Ian, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading about your journey so far. I am very jealous :-) Good luck with the rest of your journey.

Hello from the BMW boys: Dan and Richie.

We've made it back to the big smoke without injury, although we came perilously close to running out of whiskey at times. We hired bush taxis the rest of the way to the Gambia after leaving you in Nouadhibou - swindled, cheated and conned every step of the way.

Good luck for your onward journey. Rest assured that you remain the coolest man wearing a Land Rover cap we have ever met.

Hi, we met briefly at the Dakhla campsite (I was in the Fiesta on the Plymouth-Banjul Challenge) Interested to read about your travels. We had a great, albeit far too short, trip. Enjoy yours !!

Alan

Hi Ian. You are looking good! Enjoying the blog and great pics.
The Club are following you, we have a link to you on our website.
Stay safe.

Martin SORC

Hey mate,
Just had Lacey on phone moaning that you've not managed to fix any proms gigs in the sahara. Stay safe and good luck

Hi Ian,
Finally got a chance to look at your website - good job with all the postings, and photo's. We will continue to check how your are doing on your journey.
Good luck and stay safe.

all the best ian, i know how much planing you put into this.have a fun & safe trip.

Glad to see that you are still going strong. Hope you are keeping up the practice! Any openings for an Oompah Band!!!

We havent met, but from a fellow trombonist Good luck with the journey and I will be keeping an eye on how it goes.