Roof Rack

It is time to leave Marrakesh, a fantastic city that we are pleased we have seen. The excitement starts to build as it feels a bit like we are leaving civilisation. We meet up in the Meridian carpark where the CH's are staying and are joined by Bangers and Smash, How Hard Can it Be and The German Team. The convoy is looking rather larger and we have a conflab on which way to go. As we are pulling out Chris finds a stack of cash that he radios out about but no one responds, they will when they try to use it!

As we head out of town we meet up with Sand in Me Crack and another team. During the progress to the tizi n test pass we end up splitting into 2 groups. The roads wind like Andorra but are like tarmacked farmers tracks.. Its ogoing well till Chris looks out and sees the roof rack moving, never a good thing. We radio out to say we ned to stop asap ad which point one of the legs collapse. We have a conflab at the side of the road and get the CHs drill out to try to put a bolt through the rack. They discover the generator they has a builders 3 pin circular socket on it. Their drill however has a standard UK domestic plug on the charger. They are sure they have and adapter but are not sure where on the vehicle it is. We deploy the 2.2kva and get her up and running. It works now, last time in Sotogrande we tried to use it wouldnt start. Later found to be no fuel!!

Adrian from GG wakes up the road and finds a iron worker. The gods are smiling on us! He brings him back and we do lots of gesticulation and he seams to get the idea. The teams that we had split from earlier catch up and the money turns out to be Stephans and he is most pleased to have it back. We cruse down to where he works and discover that he has the kit to do it but no power as the winds have taken down the lines. His transformer is in a ply box very interesting. I will up the pics when I get a good connection. We then hit the next snag as he needs 330v and we only output 240v. After more pigeon french we end up getting a brace bolted to the broken bar and are on our way. Cost £10 and 3 beers (the guy was most impressed by the beer and was welcomedlike a hero back into the garage with them!). Thanks to all the teams that stopped to help. We just felt like a bunch o plonkers that it had failed. We took the load from the rack in the car and also the VW camper of GG.

We travel on further up seeing the most amazing views. The camera doesn't seam to be able to catch them. We pass another team that has doen a head on with a taxi. I have the pic of the Taxi but not the Pajero. Everyone is ok and as there are loads of people there dealing with it we move on. We climb above the snow line taking even windier roads. After a quick pee stop we get to the Cafe at the top and meet quite afew other teams. The guy running the place must have thought his luck was in. We all have omelettes, you dont realise your hungry when doing this till you smell or taste food. The food is hastened on by Adrian and we end up having 21.

The run down from the cafe is brilliant especially when you meet buses coming the other way! WWD and the Germans head off towards a campsite they want to go. BS and HHCIB push on from the pass whilst we are still waiting for the rest of the people to finish food. Coming down the mountains Dierda has a problem with the brakes overheating which quickly resolves itself and we are back on the planes heading towards Agadia. We intend to stop in one of the villages but keep pushing on as the going is good.